Custom Template & Rapido Breaks URL Paths

Question

Outline

I have a custom type (Dexterity) called "Gallery Profile", for this type I went into the ZMI (portal_skins/custom), created a new "Page Template" and wrote a custom template for my gallery. The gallery contains a bunch of lower down images and one main image of the owner of the gallery, like a News Item view but a gallery tacked on the bottom.

The customer wants this main image to be published to Facebook when someone hits 'Share' and some more specific info in the title when published.

Work carried out

Configured a Rapido script to write the 'og:image' meta data etc HTML that is required to get this to work (the default Plone stuff only publishes the sites logo unless you're viewing one Image type).

If I go to test the HTML coming out of Rapido via direct web address it works swimmingly. (site.com/@@rapido/og_share/block/og_share) - I'm on the slightly older version of Rapido hence the non-plural version of block.

The problem

If you go to my gallery page where we have applied the template, then check the HTML, all of the OG meta data is pointing to the template instead of the current page its on.

This effects queries too (if for example you're using a script to find out what images are within a folder) - it searches /my_template instead of site.com/a_folder/my_template_is_on

In the Rapido Python file I've tried things like:

context.content.absolute_url()
context.content.absolute_url_path()
context.request['URL']
context.request['VIRTUAL_URL']
context.request['ACTUAL_URL']

... and probably more as I've been at this a while.

If you're not on the custom template, it works.

To Reproduce

• Create a custom template
• Assign it as the default view of a folder or any type.
• In your template put <div tal:replace="structure python:context.REQUEST"></div> (just to see the difference)
• In your Rapido try using context.app.log() and any of the above
• Refresh your templated folder while checking the logs and the output from the context.REQUEST stuff.
• You will see the differences and how Rapido is having a hard time getting the URL of the page you are on even though its there.

I've always had this problem with Rapido I just tend to work around it but in this particular situation I am stumped.

So in summary

• Am I being an idiot and missing something obvious?
• Is this possible?

Thank you for your time.