[Zope3-dev] Re: Mini proposal: simpify presentation-lookup api

[Jim Fulton]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
...


> In the docstrings, you talk about presentations, but the methods are 
> called {get|query}Presenter. I think they should be called 
> {get|query}Presentation. That's also inline with the service being 
> called Presentation Service, the service for Adapters being called 
> Adapter Service, etc. etc.

Presenter is shorter. I'm open to even shorter names. :)

We can rename the service.



> That's good, since I guess we'll have BrowserViews etc. provide 
> IPublished...

Well, "pages" will present IPublished. I'm working on a separate
proposal for that. :)


>> So, for example, a call like:
>>
>>   view = zapi.getView(ob, name, request)
>>
>> will become:
>>
>>   view = zapi.getPresenter((ob, request), someinterface, name)
> 
> 
> How will resources be looked up?

resource = zapi.getPresenter((request, ), someinterface, name)


>> where often, name will be '' and can be ommitted:
> 
> 
> Btw, why does name default to ''. I find that a little implicit. I would 
> much rather have it default to None.

No, because None is not a valid name. :)

I've trid it both ways. It's simpler in the long run to simply say that
unnamed things are things with empty names.

Jim

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