[Zope3-dev] Re: wading through zcml...

[Chris Withers]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> Why can't IView (or whatever it is) just specify that the constructor 
>> must accept a request, response and a template instance?
> 
> Because the template may not be passed in, and even if it is, where 
> would it be constructed and how would it be found again?

See my currying comment later in the thread.

> then you may as well not have a 'template' attribute for <browser:page 
> If you have it done in ZCML, though, you can get a template-only view 
> without any Python at all, though:
> 
> <browser:page
>     for="*"
>     template="mytemplate.pt"
>     name="my_view"
>     permission="zope.Public"
>     />

yeah, but I'm talking about the horrificness that currently makes the 
above work.

I'm asking whether it really needs to be that bad or whether it could be 
more sanely implemented.

I guess I should just make a branch and have a play or stfu...

The later is likely to win due to lack of time

*sigh*

Chris

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