[Zope3-dev] RFC: View Methods as Views

[Jim Fulton]

Tim Hoffman wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim
> 
> Wouldn't the second option be more future proof, from a design point of
> view
> 
> <browser:view
>          for=".IContactEdit."
>          factory=".IContactInfoView.">
> permission_id=".Contacts.ManageContacts"
>          >
> <page name="editForm.html" method="index" />
> <page name="edit.html" method="edit" />
> </browser:view>
> 
> I can imagine over time you may want to add further directives to each
> of the view methods in the zcml file, using the second method each
> view has an explicit element, whereas to add additional view attributes
> you would have to add new tags.
> 
> e.g over riding the general browser:view permission with a specific view
> permission (OK maybe you may never want to do this, but just as an
> example)
> 
> <browser:view
>          for=".IContactEdit."
>          factory=".IContactInfoView.">
> permission_id=".Contacts.ManageContacts"
>          >
> <page name="editForm.html" method="index"  />
> <page name="edit.html" method="edit"
> permission_id=".Contacts.SomeSpecialPermission"/>
> </browser:view>

I think that's a pretty good argument.

Jim

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