[ZPT] No proxy roles in page templates? What do I do then?

[Itai Tavor]

R. David Murray wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Itai Tavor wrote:
>>  duplication of code as well as waste of time. It will also make the
>>  verification code itself more complicated, but I won't go into that
>>  here. Or, I could write a single script for each UI method, which
>>  would verify the user, then pull all the data that the UI method
>>  requires, and return it in a dictionary to the PT. So now I would
>>  need two methods for every one I used to have, and the PT would
>>  become less clear and harder to manage.
>
>Ah, but a script-per-pt returning a dictionary of data needed
>by the pt is, I believe, considered Good Practice by Evan, and
>it makes sense to me (a lot of sense).  Keep the logic
>out of the pt as much as possible!  It should actualy simplify
>your verification code, since you'll be able to do it using
>clean python syntax rather than clunky dtml.

Thanks, I'm starting to get it now. Getting logic of of PTs this way 
does make sense.

Regarding the verification code, it's already in a python method 
that's called from the PT, so all I have to do is move the call to 
the new script/method (it would really be a method in a 
filesystem-based product, because that's where the whole project 
lives, other than the PTs).

What I still don't like about this solution, is that in some cases it 
is totally unnecessary and makes no sense, such as calling protected 
'view' methods that return HTML snippets. Instead of simply doing 
tal:replace="someobject/view" I need a separate script just to get 
and return the HTML. In cases like this a separate script is 
wasteful, and the lack of proxy roles is simply annoying, and serves 
no purpose.

Thanks,

Itai
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