zope.globalrequest 3.0

Global way of retrieving the currently active request.

Introduction

This package provides a contextless way to retrieve the currently active request object in a zope-based web framework. To do so you simply need to do the following:

from zope.globalrequest import getRequest
request = getRequest()

This package is mainly intended to be used with the Zope/Plone stack. While it also works with the Zope3 framework, the latter promotes a clean separation of concerns and the pattern of having a globally available request object is discouraged.

Changelog

3.0 (2025-09-12)

• Replace pkg_resources namespace with PEP 420 native namespace.

2.1 (2025-09-04)

• Add support for Python 3.12, 3.13.

• Drop support for Python 3.7, 3.8.

2.0 (2023-03-27)

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6.

• Mention Python 3.11 support in trove classifiers.

1.6 (2022-10-18)

• Add support for Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11

• Drop support for Python 3.4.

1.5 (2018-10-04)

• Add support for Python 3.7.

1.4 (2017-05-29)

• Turn functional tests into better covering unit tests and also add more tests. This removes test dependencies on unrelated packages.

1.3 (2016-10-22)

• Python 3 compatibility.

1.2 (2016-06-07)

• Lighten test dependencies by using neither zope.app.testing nor zope.app.zcmlfiles any longer.

1.1 (2015-04-29)

• Fix import locations and declare all dependencies. [thet]

1.0 (2010-08-07)

• Fix test setup regarding zope.securitypolicy. [ldr]

1.0a2 (2009-01-17)

• Update documentation to clarify the intentions of this package. Also see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.devel/18023 for more information. [witsch]

1.0a1 (2009-01-15)

• Initial release [witsch]