[Zope3-dev] zwiki: performance of findChildren()

[Steve Alexander]

> For general purpose relationship management, one would hope that new type of
> relationships can be bolted onto existing legacy, and dumb objects.  At the
> same time, one would hope not to have to call a service or function external
> to the object just to get its relationships.  Wrapping an object would
> accomplish both, with only a bit more work, I think

Right.

This comes under the general heading of "decorating objects with 
context-specific functionality".

The ZopeContainerAdapter class is an example of this. However, it is an 
adapter when it should be a decorator.

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Steve Alexander