[Zope3-dev] Re: "for" attribute not checked in zcml

[Jim Fulton]

On Jun 10, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Christophe Combelles wrote:

> Martin Aspeli a écrit :
>> Christophe Combelles wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Many zcml directives have a "for" attribute, which take an  
>>> interface as argument. Absent-minded people like me sometimes  
>>> happen to put a real class instead of an interface in the "for"  
>>> attributes.
>>>
>>> * On browser:page, one can put a real class with no error. Is it  
>>> correct?
>> Yes. Browser views are just adapters, and adapters can be  
>> registered for a specific class, as well as for an interface.  
>> Think of a class as being an interface which is implemented by a  
>> single class only (itself).
>
>
> Does it mean I can have both a generic view for an interface, and a  
> specific view for a particular implementation of that interface ?

Yes.

Jim

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