[Zope3-dev] Missing ObjectContentModifiedEvent

[Garrett Smith]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Garrett Smith wrote:
>>> :-) I guess this approach is *so* endemic to Zope 3, I must be
>>> missing something huge.
>> 
>> What we're talking about is not very different from the way that
>> composition is used to prevent explosition of field types.
>> 
>> For example, we use: List(Int()) rather than IntegerList.
>> 
>> Note that we use a combination of type and composition,
>> hopefully striking a good balence.
> 
> I see your point.
> 
> But events are essentially an API and a well defined contract is
> better than an implicit one. I think we're going to see a lot code
> that looks like this:
> 
>   if not 'my stuff' in event.extra:
>      return
>   doSomething()

I take this back -- we can always provide a multi-adapter delegator.
That's actually pretty nice.

> I also think this is being driven by the "I can imagine..." syndrome.

I'm still concerned about WHUI. What in the core can be replaced with
this new model?
 
 -- Garrett