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

[Tres Seaver]

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Chris Withers wrote:
> 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

Have a look at how pushpage defines its ZCML page directive:  no nasty
generated classes required:

  http://agendaless.com/Members/tseaver/software/pushpage/pushpage-0.3/


Tres.
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