[Zope3-dev] Re: Container interface issues

[Garrett Smith]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> Garrett Smith writes:
>  > If developers are adding things to containers this way, my guess is that 
>  > they're well on their way to working with specific interfaces and using 
>  > adapters.
> 
> That's not the issue.  The point of moving this particular invocation
> to a helper function exposed (wherever) is to ensure that it's spelled
> the same way every time, and to move a common(?) set of steps out of
> the application-centric code.  The specific interfaces here aren't
> likely to change or be used for much else (I'm thinking of things like
> IAddTarget), so it makes sense to move this out of the application,
> which should be concerned with more application-specific operations.

I don't see how using an explicit, adapted interface fails to accomplish 
this.

Is there a trend to move away from working with objects that fulfill 
explicit contracts in favor of a single module full of convenience 
methods? I hope not -- I really like the clarity of interfaces :-)


  -- Garrett