[Zope3-dev] Twisted Publisher and Zope 2

[Jim Fulton]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:14:08PM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
> | >Here's what is in the docstring for HTTPRequest:
> | >
> | >      - Lazy Data
> | >
> | >        These are callables which are deferred until explicitly
> | >        referenced, at which point they are resolved and stored as
> | >        application data.
> | >
> | >Haven't found much else documentation.
> | 
> | Are these basically lazy computed request keys/attributes then?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> | >There's a 'set_lazy' method in HTTPRequest, and that's what the
> | >session machinery uses to bind 'getSessionData' as 'SESSION'. This
> | >specific case sucks though, because as 'SESSION' appears when doing
> | >request.keys() is pretty common to create sessions implicitly by
> | >iterating through the request.
> | 
> | Yeah, explicit is better than implicit.
> | 
> | I don't want to add this to Z3, but it should be included in the
> | new combined z2/z3 request.  We really need to take a look at the
> | combined API and decide what we want in the long run.
> 
> So we are shooting for a z2 request implemented in terms of a z3
> request. Sounds like an adapter to me :)

Maybe, however, if it is, it should happen as part of the request
factory.

Jim

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