[Zope3-dev] IFactory, and composite factories

[R. David Murray]

I just closed collector issue 9, document composite factories.
However, I have a question.

A composite factory looks like:

	c(b(a(context)))

For a ViewFactory and an adapter I think I know what context is.
But for other things (securityPolicy, utility) I'm not quite sure
what it is.  Is "context" a good generic name to use to document
this?

I'm expecting that it is, but:  IFactory.py says that '__call__'
takes no arguments.  How can that be if the above is the correct
form for a composite factory?  Should IFactory take 'context' as a
__call__ argument?  But you wouldn't have a context for a placeless
factory.  Are there in fact two Factory interfaces, one that takes
no arguments and say IChainedFactory that takes an object instance?  Or
am I confused and these other directives can't have chained factories?
Or am I just confused because I haven't read enough zope3 code <grin>?

trying-to-(re)learn-by-documenting'ly yours
--RDM