[Zope3-dev] widget question: propertyNames/getValue

[Gary Poster]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Garrett Smith wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to make sense of propertyNames in the widget facility. From
>> what I can see, propertyNames and getValue can be removed from IWidget
>> (plus appropriate refactoring of existing code) without loosing
>> functionality.
...
> My opinion is that widgets should implement schemas that describe their
> configuration data, which are exposed via attributes.

+1.  I was thinking of this too: this would also allow zcml 
customization of widgets (because then we would have the type casting 
for free) without having to do it with a mixin view class.  That was a 
goal of mine.

Gary