[Zope3-dev] Re: Specification/Security-Decorator usage

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Wolfgang Schnerring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just refactored zope.decorator into zope.proxy.decorator and
> zope.security.decorator as discussed in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.zope3/18581.
> 
> Contrary to that discussion, Theuni and I thought that the
> *DecoratorBase classes are actually useful because they provide an
> abstraction from the internal names such as __providedBy__.

Yup, probably true. Though the question is how often you'd need a 
decorating proxy like that...

> However, when I tried to refactor zope.location.location.LocationProxy
> to use said base classes, it broke the functional tests for
> zope.app.apidoc.introspector -- for reasons I totally don't
> understand.

A traceback would be nice to see here. Otherwise it'd be hard for the 
rest of us to help you :).

> Question: Should the base classes be removed or should the apidoc be
> fixed to cope with them?

Probably both :)