Hello Craeg I particularly prefer the factory aproach. Zope users are already used to that approach because of the Z Search Interface. I think you shouldn't need a dummy class just to be able to create such a factory, but right now I don't know how you'd go about creating a factory without a class. As for an ExternalFileFolder, it would be useful if it automatically created objects when they are added to the respective directory (automatically as in, it checks for new objects when you look at the object list (manage_main), or when you try to access a previously inexistant (sp.) object. Although, because of Data.fs write-on-read concerns, you might want this automation to be configurable on a folder by folder basis). An ExternalFolder might also provide a view or tab to configure default attributes of newly discovered objects. The objects created this way would obviously be regular ExternalFile objects, and you could copy/cut and paste them outside of the ExternalFileFolder object. Cheers, Leo On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 17:32, Craeg K Strong wrote:
Hello:
I am about to release a new version of the ExternalFile and CVSFile products
http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/ExternalFile [...]
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