[Grok-dev] the beginnings of megrok.feeds

Christian Theune ct at gocept.com
Sun Jul 20 17:15:04 EDT 2008


On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 17:36 -0400, Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
>  <SIDE QUESTION>
>  Why does the "ViewGrokker" in Grok's "meta.py" call "provideAdapter",
>  which I think is a global registration command, when registering a
>  View?  Shouldn't it instead register the view as a local adapter inside
>  of its particular Grok site?  Imagine that I have a Python module that
>  provides "Foo" objects, and I instantiate two different Grok apps in my
>  database that both use "Foo" objects; to be concrete, imagine that
>  "app1" defines a "/one" view on a "Foo" object and that "app2" defines
>  a "/two" view.  Since the grokker defines each view globally, then it
>  seems that not only would these two desired URLs work:
> 
>     http://localhost:8080/app1/foo/one
>     http://localhost:8080/app2/foo/two
> 
>  but also the two unwanted URLs:
> 
>     http://localhost:8080/app1/foo/two
>     http://localhost:8080/app2/foo/one
> 
>  because the global registrations would make each application's views
>  magically appear over in the other application?
>  </SIDE QUESTION>

Only if your 'Foo' objects really refer to the same class objects.

Non-persistent configuration is a good thing if it works for you.
Maintaining component registration in the database can be a huge
drawback WRT to code restructuring/deprecation.

-- 
Christian Theune · ct at gocept.com
gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany
http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 7 · fax +49 345 1229889 1
Zope and Plone consulting and development

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/grok-dev/attachments/20080720/46ad8708/attachment-0001.bin


More information about the Grok-dev mailing list