[Grok-dev] Problem with Annotations

[Ethan Jucovy]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Paul Wilson <paulalexwilson at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Ethan Jucovy <ejucovy at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Paul Wilson <paulalexwilson at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> [snip]
>
>> --- actually, having written that out, the named adapters look like
>> they are just views -- IMetadataProvider's get_metadata and
>> put_metadata could just interact with a browser request & response
>> directly, and each plugin would define a view that knows how to get
>> the right annotation.  Hand-waving furiously here, I think most of the
>> logic (looking up the annotation, de/serializing, error handling)
>> could be centralized in a base class.  Each plugged-in subclass could
>> then house all the knowledge about that plugin's URL component and
>> annotation key & format, and register itself as a view.
>>
>> Not sure if this is making any sense, or is relevant to your problem.
>> :)  At any rate, good luck!
>
> Hehe. Wow - firstly it looks like you've understood me, and secondly I
> like your solution. I think I've been over engineering my solution and
> worrying too much about naming issues. I should have realised this
> when I started talking about 'pluggable named adapters' :-)
>
> Thanks for clearing it up for me!

Happy to help!  I've been trying to think through a similar conceptual
problem on my backburner for a while now, but it's been hard for me to get a
handle on it in the first place, so you've helped me too by spelling out the
problem. :)

It's funny how often I'll think through a solution that sounds overly
complex and hand-rolled, only to discover at the end that it's already a
pretty fundamental Zope/Grok feature, just seen from a different angle.
 "Grok is informed by a *lot* of hard-earned wisdom" indeed. :)

Anyway, good luck with the project!  It sounds very interesting,
domain-specific or no.

Regards,
Ethan
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