How can I ask the state for a content object?

Question

At the end of this tutorial several object attributes are listed. But I need access to the state (published, private,...). I also search that attribute using dir() but I don't see an attribute named as state or something similar. i.e, I need something like this:

>>> app.Plone.foo.bar.state
"published"

Answer 1

Or to keep your code more readable and not having to remember strange method names, you can use plone.api to do this:

from plone import api
api.content.get_state(obj=your_object)

Of course, you need to add plone.api to your eggs first, and re-run buildout.

Answer 2

You can always use the plone_workflow to determine current status:

workflowTool = getToolByName(self.portal, "portal_workflow")
status = workflowTool.getStatusOf("plone_workflow", object)
# where "object" is your content object
print (status)