[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope3 transform utility

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Ivo van der Wijk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently writing a transform utility (somewhat like
> portal_transforms in Plone) for my Zope3 project. I think this will be
> a usable component to others - would something like this be
> interesting to include in the Zope3 core?
> 
> The utility converts a mimetype to a different mimetype, i.e.
> 
> text/plain -> text/html
> application/x-rest -> text/html
> text/html -> application/pdf
> 
> etc. Of course, using separate transformers (much like how the Catalog
> / indexes are implemented).
> 
> I'm planning to add 'chaining' of conversion as well, i.e. using the
> conversions described above, it should be possible to query the
> transform utility for a transformation from application/x-rest to
> application-pdf, but it seems some people already find this too
> complex for a generic zope3 utility.
> 
> Any thoughts on what specific functionality such a utility
> should/should not provide?
> 
> Cheers
> 
>   Ivo
> 

Ivo, this is zope3-users material. Please take your question to that 
list, this one's reserved for Zope3 *development*.

Thank you,

Philipp