Wrap Zope objects in a request. From http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.archetypes.general/2277

wrap.py

import os, sys 
from base64 import encodestring

from ZPublisher.Request import Request 
from ZPublisher.Response import Response 
from ZPublisher.BaseRequest import RequestContainer 
from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import newSecurityManager

e=os.environ 
e['SERVER_NAME']= 'localhost'
e['SERVER_PORT']= '8080' 
e['SCRIPT_NAME']= ''

def wrap(obj, user=None, password=None, method=''):
    '''wrap *obj* in a request.''' 
    e['REQUEST_METHOD'] = method 
    r = Request(sys.stdin, e, Response()) 
    r['PARENTS'] = [obj] 
    if user is not None and password is not None: 
        r._auth = 'basic ' + encodestring('%s:%s' % (user,password)) 
        UF = obj.acl_users 
        u = UF.getUser(user) 
        if u is not None: 
            u = u.__of__(UF) 
            newSecurityManager(r, u) 
            r['AUTHENTICATED_USER'] = u 
    return obj.__of__(RequestContainer(REQUEST=r))