[Grok-dev] Re: registering a factory as a (global) utility
Martijn Faassen
faassen at startifact.com
Fri Apr 27 13:35:00 EDT 2007
Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>
>> It's still useful to have this for global utilities, though. I propose
>> the following alternate directive to do this:
>>
>> grok.global_utility_object(Item, provides=IMyFactory)
>>
>> I chose a separate directive because making global_utility take either
>> a factory or an instance requires all kinds of extra checks and is not
>> as readable as having a separate directive. I'm not sure I'm happy
>> about the name though.
>
> Thinking about this some more, I've changed my mind, and I think we
> should do:
>
> grok.global_utility(Item, provides=IMyFactory, factory=True)
>
> This will allow us to define a factory=True argument for local
> utilities. The effect in both cases will be that the first argument
> won't be called but registered directly.
Hm, I will do this, but I will reverse the semantics. if 'factory=True',
the default, the first argument is considered to be a factory. If false,
the first argument is registered directly.
Regards,
Martijn
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