[Grok-dev] What is an application?

[Darryl Cousins]

Hi Tim,

An answer from a new grokker.

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 16:28 +0100, Tim Terlegård wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just created something very simple with grok. A question was raised.
> 
> What is an application in the grok world? My initial thought was that
> it must be the site, the root container. I guess it is a site, but it
> doesn't seem to be a container. I can't do a view like:
> 
>     class CreateSomething(grok.View):
>         grok.context(grok.Application)
> 
>         def update(self):
> 	    container = IWriteContainer(self.context)
>             container['someid'] = Folder()
> 
> I tried changing app.py so my app inherited from grok.Container instead of
> grok.Model, then it worked much better. I checked the grok source code
> and grok.Application inherits from Site. In pure zope3 I can adapt a
> site to IFolder or IWriteContainer, but in grok I can't. Isn't a site
> the same thing in pure zope3 and grok?
> 
> Tim

The way I see it:

Application: yes, is a site but also marks the content as a grok
application for the grok registry. ie is addable in the grok admin
screen.

Site: Not a container as you found, but is initiated with a site manager
container (++etc++) - where local utilities are placed by convention.

To make a site a container:

class MySiteIsAContainer(grok.Application, grok.Container):
	pass

If the site need not be a 'root' application object we can just use:

class MySiteIsAContainer(grok.Site, grok.Container):
	pass

Hope this helps. Corrections grokkers?

Regards,
Darryl

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