[Zope3-dev] unique intids rationale

[Jean-Marc Orliaguet]

Hi!

what is the rationale between the unique integer ids utility and the 
usage policy?
 
more specifically: why are newly added objects registered in *all* 
IntIds utilities? It does not make sense if the utility is registered 
locally. If they are local they should not be concerned with objects 
added elsewhere than outside their "scope".

can it be turned off in the application?

regards
/JM

.../Zope3/src/zope/app/intid/__init__.py

def addIntIdSubscriber(ob, event):
    """A subscriber to ObjectAddedEvent
          
    Registers the object added in all unique id utilities and fires
    an event for the catalogs.
    """
             
    utilities = tuple(zapi.getAllUtilitiesRegisteredFor(IIntIds))
    if utilities: # assert that there are any utilites
        key = IKeyReference(ob, None)
        # Register only objects that adapt to key reference
        if key is not None:
            for utility in utilities:
                utility.register(key)