On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:27:18AM +0200, Stefan H. Holek wrote:
This is due to how Python Scripts compute their cache keys. The relevant snippet from PythonScript._exec() is:
asgns = self.getBindingAssignments() name_context = asgns.getAssignedName('name_context', None) if name_context: keyset[name_context] = aq_parent(self).getPhysicalPath()
Note that aq_parent() gives you the URL parent, not the container. I see no way around that as the return value of a script may well depend on its context.
Yes, it may, agreed. Thanks much for pointing out the relevant code, at least now I understand what's happening. But I still would like to argue against this behavior: There *is* an easy alternative, and that's to put one or more of the many location-related request variables into the cache manager's configuration. This has two advantages: it's more explicit, and control is given to the site admin rather than hardcoding it. The disadvantages I see to using my current "container" workaround are: * The templates are client code. Having to change potentially multiple templates just to affect cacheing behavior of one script violates the Don't Repeat Yourself principle. * It's too surprising. When reviewing code, the difference between "context" and "container" brings many things to mind. Cache hit/miss ratio is not one of them. When I stumbled on the workaround, if I hadn't bothered to ask here but had merely committed the change to my templates and moved on, I would have been "programming by coincidence" (see "The Pragmatic Programmer"). I'll probably remember it now, but it seems like kind of an obscure guru-level thing for a template author to have to know, especially if they are not even a developer and only know how to write some simple TALES expressions. * It's an implicit implementation detail. The difference in caching behavior between "context" and "container" is AFAIK not documented anywhere, not even in the source code (unless you argue that the semantics of the lines you posted above count as documentation). Anyway, I have no guarantee that future versions of zope won't silently break it. * There are other reasons I might be forced to use "context". For example, if my site offers two CMF skins, each of which provides some scripts with the same names, I might have common templates that need to acquire the script from the current skin and thus may not be able to find it via "container". admittedly there are hacky workarounds in such situations, e.g. have trivial wrapper scripts live near the templates. For a related annoyance, see: http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF/343 -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com