[Grok-dev] Re: Computing URLs relative to the application

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I find it a very common requirement to compute URLs relative to the 
>> grok.Application object. I'm inclined to introduce an 
>> application_url() method on grok.View.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> +1, this is very common in Plone as well where we have a $portal_url 
> globally in the template namespace.

Yes. Of course, that global stuff is evil (I just hope it'll go away in 
Plone). The natural namespace for such optimizations/shortcuts is the 
'view' object.


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