[Zope3-dev] RFC: death to getView, getDefaultViewName, and getResource

[Gary Poster]

I think I noticed absolute url was implemented as a view; I thought it was an 
odd choice, but is there a good reason for it to be a view?  If so, whatever 
the reason is might be an argument to keep the non-request version.

Gary

On Wednesday 15 May 2002 04:33 pm, Jim Fulton wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> > Jim Fulton wrote:
> > > See:
> > >
> > >  
> > > http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/Remove
> > >GetView
> >
> > Are there circumstances foreeable in the future whereby a connection
> > could exist between a user and an object without there being a request?
>
> No.
>
> There are trivial views that don't care about the request.
> Most other views can simply have the request passed to their methods
> by the publisher.  These views don't really need the request to be
> passed to the constructor.
>
> Jim