[Zope-CMF] Re: how to repurpose a type programmatically?

[Petri Savolainen]

Oh my. Why, why did I not realize the FTI is a simple PropertyManager so 
nothing more complex than a call manage_changeProperties is needed?

"Too much CMF & Plone & AT can make you lose your Zope"?

  Petri


Petri Savolainen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to repurpose a few content types programmatically, rather than 
> ttw via the types tool ZMI. In other words, the FTI id, title, 
> description, icon and meta_type would be different in the repurposed type.
> 
> I thought typestool.manage_addTypeInformation() would accomplish this 
> but it seems that can only be used to register completely new 
> class-based types rather than to repurpose existing ones.
> 
> I've also tried adding the FTI information for the new types into 
> ContentInit that adds the 'base' types I am repurposing. Ie.
> 
>  utils.ContentInit(
>       PROJECTNAME + ' Content',
>       content_types      = content_types,
>       permission         = ADD_CONTENT_PERMISSION,
>       extra_constructors = constructors,
>       fti                = ftis + REPURPOSEDNEWTYPES
>       ).initialize(context)
> 
> where REPURPOSEDNEWTYPES is a tuple containing the fti dicts for the new 
> types. Does not work.
> 
> I am starting to wonder if this is possible at all - yet this seems 
> something that should be rather easy and common need. What obvious stuff 
> am I missing?
> 
> Any pointers & advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  Petri
> 
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