[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] SVN: Zope3/trunk/src/zope/dublincore/ Dublin Core property to use Dublin Core meta data as simple properties.

[Jürgen Kartnaller]

Florian Lindner wrote:
> Am Montag, 14. August 2006 12:52 schrieb Jürgen Kartnaller:
>> Log message for revision 69463:
>>   Dublin Core property to use Dublin Core meta data as simple properties.
>>
>>
>> Changed:
>>   A   Zope3/trunk/src/zope/dublincore/property.py
>>   A   Zope3/trunk/src/zope/dublincore/property.txt
>>   A   Zope3/trunk/src/zope/dublincore/tests/test_property.py
> 
> Do I understand this change correctly that it obsoletes 
> zope.dublincore.annotatableadapter.partialAnnotatableAdapterFactory?
It definitely doesn't obsolete the existing implementation.
DCProperty is the other way around.

DCProperty allows access to DC meta data via simple properties.

partialAnnotatableAdapterFactory allows access via DC meta data to 
content properties.

> 
> Quote from zope/dublincore/tests/partial.txt which describes the 
> partialAnnotatableAdapterFactory:
> 
>> Sometimes we want to include data in content objects which mirrors one
>> or more Dublin Core fields.  In these cases, we want the Dublin Core
>> structures to use the data in the content object rather than keeping a
>> separate value in the annotations typically used.  What fields we want
>> to do this with can vary, however, and we may not want the Dublin Core
>> APIs to constrain our choices of field names for our content objects.
> 
> Should the partialAnnotatableAdapterFactory therefore be removed/deprecated?
No

Regards
Jürgen