How can I tell if a field has changed value in an AT object in plone?

Question

I have an AT content type in Plone. It has a number of fields, including a file field. When the user edits an object of this type, how can I tell if a new file was uploaded?

For that matter, how can I tell if any of the fields have been changed?

I am currently using subscribers to hook into the IObjectEditedEvent to do some after the object changes - can I do these things here?

Answer 1

Yes, IObjectEditedEvent (a direct subclass of IObjectModifiedEvent) is emitted when an Archetypes content object is being changed.

However, the event itself will not tell you if a new file was uploaded. It should be possible however, to obtain the request (context.REQUEST should give you the current request through acquisition, for example) and see if there is a file object there matching the field. If so, the user uploaded a new file for that field and the FileField will have been updated.

Answer 2

Here is what I tied to the IObjectEditedEvent:

Using the default form created from subclassing ATBlob, implementing (IATBlobFile, IATFile, IFileContent)

def editObjectEvent(context, event):
    status = context.REQUEST.form.get('file_delete')
    if status in ("nochange", NONE):
        print "Don't do anything, no change to file."
    else:
        print "Do something, the file has changed"

I'd like to know what other values form['file_delete'] can have. It seems useful.