[Zope3-dev] Zope.App.ZopePublication

[Chris Withers]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> 
> I ran into some major issues implementing XML-RPC. While I got the basic
> XML-RPC transfer working (yipee), all the code in ZopePublication is
> Browser-specific(as in View Type). I will therefore refactor the entire
> module.

I hope that's happening on a branch!

> Also, in XML-RPC I have no way to say:
> ...../contentObject/ViewName;view/method, since I have no possibility to
> use ';view' in the dot-notation. 

What's the dot-notation?

> So what I decided to do is that I only
> allow for one XML-RPC view per content object, 

I'd really want to see that restriction lifted.

> Another possibility would be to have some sort of view marker, like
> ..../contentObject/ViewName_VIEW/method, which I think is not very elegant;
> even ..../contentObject/VIEW/ViewName/method is not that good, since it
> would look too strange for a non-Zope user to use.

It sounds like you're revisiting the whole URL naming issue. I reckon just stick the with
normal Zope 3 way unless you can come up with something better _and_ as flexible...

cheers,

Chris