[Zope3-dev] ZCML-Directive for DirectoryResource factories?

[Fred Drake]

Meant to send this to the list...

On 9/18/07, Christian Zagrodnick <cz at gocept.com> wrote:
> The only thing is, no I'm not going to register every file in ZCML. I
> want to use the zc.resourcelibrary.
>
> The follwoing makes it possible, but it's not too nice to have that
> somewhere in the code:
>
> (zope.app.publisher.browser.directoryresource.
>  DirectoryResource.resource_factories['.js']) = (
>      z3c.zrtresource.zrtresource.ZRTFileResourceFactory)
>
> I'd rather have a ZCML-directive to do that. Would that fit into
> zope.app.publisher?

I think the right approach would be to make the new directive a
sub-directive of the resourcelibrary and/or the resourcedirectory
directive.  Then there could be a separate extension -> type map for
each directory of resources.  An alternative would be to allow the
library or directory directive to refer to a map defined elsewhere
(say, in Python), making it easier to re-use maps.

This makes a lot of sense to me, since the provider of each pile of
resources knows what they put in it and what the processing
requirements are.  A global map seems like a bad idea here.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fdrake at gmail.com>
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