[Zope3-dev] Re: unique intids rationale

[j.kartnaller]

This has already been added to the bug collector :
http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/466

Jürgen

Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
> 
> 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)