[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] five.localsitemanager: proposal

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Tue Jun 26 02:46:12 EDT 2007


Previously yuppie wrote:
> Charlie Clark wrote:
> >
> >Am 23.06.2007 um 14:53 schrieb yuppie:
> >
> >>There are 10 tools in CMF that are not ready for being used as 
> >>utilities, they have to be used the old way until they are fixed:
> >>
> >>content_type_registry
> >>cookie_authentication
> >>portal_actions
> >>portal_calendar
> >>portal_catalog
> >>portal_skins
> >>portal_types
> >>portal_uidhandler
> >>portal_url
> >>portal_workflow
> >
> >Taking you up on the *any* feedback thing. I have a skin script that 
> >uses the portal_catalog traditionally via getToolByName. I don't know 
> >how to use getUtility from within a script but getToolByComponentName 
> >raises
> >
> >Error Type: ComponentLookupError
> >Error Value: ICatalogTool
> >
> >As I don't like getting deprecation errors I've changed tack and have 
> >moved to context.portal_catalog...
> 
> Please don't do that. For the tools in the list quoted above 
> getToolByName is your best choice, at least for now.

And there are situations where getToolByName may work when plain
acquisition does not if you have nested acquisition chains.

Wichert.

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