[Zope3-dev] browserDefault uses '@@' for containers

[Jim Fulton]

Gary Poster wrote:
> 
> On Sep 22, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
> 
>> Why does z/a/container/traversal/ContainerTraversal include '@@' in  
>> the default view name? This is not the case in  
>> SimpleComponentTraverser (z/a/publication/traversers). Is there  
>> something special about containers that their default view should  be 
>> an explicit view lookup? Or should SimpleComponentTraverser also  
>> include '@@' in the default name?
> 
> 
> I believe that the idea is that the container traverser wants to  
> specify that the default view name is a view, not an object in the  
> container.  That is, if the default view is named index.html, and I  
> have an object in the container named index.html, './index.html' will  
> traverse to the object in the container while @@index.html will  render 
> the container view named 'index.html'.  Sometimes you *want*  the 
> over-ridable behavior (and so you can configure it that way), but  the 
> default configuration is to have the system honor the configured  view.

Yup.

Jim