[Zope3-dev] absolute_url vs IAbsoluteURL

[Jim Fulton]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> We're currently looking up the absolute URL view by name 
> ('absolute_url'). Is this something falls into the 'magic names bad' 
> category?
> 
> I.e. instead of:
> 
>   zapi.getView(context, 'absolute_url', request)
> 
> we'd use:
> 
>   zapi.getViewProviding(context, IAbsoluteURL, request)

We use both ways, because name lookup is much easier for paths
(e.g. tales)

Jim

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