[Zope-dev] implementing zope.component 4.0

[Tres Seaver]

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Tres Seaver wrote:
> Gary Poster wrote:
>> On Nov 27, 2009, at 6:32 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>>> Utility lookups versus adapter lookups
>>> --------------------------------------
>>>
>>> There was some discussion on whether utility lookups are really 
>>> something fundamentally different than adaptation as adaptation 
>>> *creates* a new instance while utility lookup uses a registered 
>>> instance. I think the essential part here is however: "give me an 
>>> instance that implements IFoo", and utility lookup fits there. We could 
>>> even envision a way to create utilities that *does* instantiate them on 
>>> the fly - it shouldn't affect the semantics for the user of the utility.
>> As above, I disagree.
> 
> The root of the disagreement here is that you seem to want the *caller*
> to care about something which is important only to the person who
> *registers* the thing being looked up.  From the caller's perspective,
> the call site needs an object implementing IFoo, looked up using some
> number N of context arguments, where N could be 0 (no context required
> to find the object).  The fact that, under the hood, an adapter lookup
> happens to call a factory, passing the context args, is not relevant *to
> the caller*.

(Sorry for the self-followup:  I hit the send key combo by accident).

As an additional point:  note that 'IFoo(context)' does *not* guarantee
that any factory will be called at all:  if 'context' already provides
IFoo, then it is just returned.


Tres.
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