[Zope3-dev] Re: provider: adapter doesn't support nocall:?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Roy Mathew wrote:
> I find that the provider syntax doesn't allow a nocall:
> specifier.

nocall: is only works with path expressions.

> My intent is to call the update at a separate place from the
> render. How else might I achieve this? I can only think of 
> explicitly getting the provider in python code, like so
> 
>     vmgr = zope.component.getMultiAdapter(
>       (self.context, self.request, self), 
>       IViewletManager, name='q2d-prov')
> 
> and doing the the update and render separately.

Right, except that we usually adapt to IContentProvider (IViewletManager 
is an implementation detail).

Btw, wrong list. Questions about *using* Zope 3 should go to 
zope3-users at zope.org.


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