[Zope3-dev] Re: Better access to APIs in paths (was Re: needing views clues - template/title troubles)

[Evan Simpson]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> To be honest, I prefer:
> 
> api(context).title

I get the feeling that I've leapt in with too skimpy an understanding of 
the issues, and of Zope 3.  In particular:

> If I was thinking in terms of adapters, I'd just create the adapter in 
> the first place. using Itamar's unimplemented syntax:
> 
>   IZopeDublinCore(context).title

This is where I came in, and I thought the 'tal:namespaces' proposal was 
syntactic sugar for this in path expressions.

> But there *would* be a plethora of small apis if API === adapter.
> Adapters implement individual interfaces.  I think that that is too
> fine-grained for what we are talking about.

My weak understanding of Zope 3 interfaces and what you mean by an "API" 
is probably at fault here.  I think of an interface as a collection of 
related methods and properties, and an API as a collection of 
interfaces.  Thus my "zope.DublinCore" ("<api>.<interface>") approach.

I'll step back and let Shane and Barry continue the debate :-)

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am