[Zope3-dev] getService() call local from global Bug/Hook

[Jim Fulton]

Roger Ineichen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I wrote a global and a local utility.
> 
> For to lookup this utilities I use a adapter.
> In this adapter I use the principal annotation service.
> 
> If I lookup the principal annotation service
> from the local utility I use:
> 
> zapi.getService(self.context, PrincipalAnnotationServiceName)
> 
> If I lookup the principal annotation service 
> from the global utility I have to use:
> 
> zapi.getService(None, PrincipalAnnotationServiceName)
 >
> This ends in code like:
> 
> try:
>   aService = zapi.getService(self.context, PrincipalAnnotationServiceName)
> except:
>   aService = zapi.getService(None, PrincipalAnnotationServiceName)
> 
> Is there better way for to do that?

No, not any more.

Just use:

   zapi.getService(PrincipalAnnotationServiceName)

We need to convery all of the existing calls to look like this
and add some deprecication warnings to let people know they should no
longer pass a context here.

Jim

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