[Zope-dev] Local Factories in Products

Shane Hathaway shane@digicool.com
Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:44:46 -0500


Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
> 
> Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> > > In ZClasses it is possible to control where a ZClass instance
> > > should be permitted to be added, in other words show up
> > > in the factory listing in a ObjectManagers manage_main view.
> >
> > Didn't Itamar have a proposal/project on this?
> 
> It's still unimplemented - you can view the details at
> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/RestrictedCreation, and there's
> some implementation suggestions from Jim Fulton in the discussion area.

I think the point was missed slightly in the discussion.  Right now
containers can limit what kinds of objects they can contain.  It should
also be possible for objects to limit what kinds of containers can
contain them.

Shane