Setup Plone for invokeFactory

gistfile1.txt

# Setup Plone for invokeFactory ... there must be a better way
from zope.component.hooks import setSite
setSite(plone)

from sys import stdin, stdout
from ZPublisher.HTTPRequest import HTTPRequest
from ZPublisher.HTTPResponse import HTTPResponse
from ZPublisher.BaseRequest import RequestContainer

def hacked_makerequest(stdout=None, environ={}):
    resp = HTTPResponse(stdout=stdout)
    environ.setdefault('SERVER_NAME', 'foo')
    environ.setdefault('SERVER_PORT', '80')
    environ.setdefault('REQUEST_METHOD',  'GET')
    req = HTTPRequest(stdin, environ, resp)
    req._steps = ['noobject']  # Fake a published object.
    req['ACTUAL_URL'] = req.get('URL') # Zope 2.7.4
    from zope.publisher.browser import setDefaultSkin
    setDefaultSkin(req)
    requestcontainer = RequestContainer(REQUEST = req)
    return requestcontainer

plone.REQUEST = hacked_makerequest()

# Before you commit, remember:
del plone.REQUEST