[Grok-dev] static versus Zope 3's directory resources

[Darryl Cousins]

Hi,

This is pretty much how mars.resource works

http://svn.zope.org/Sandbox/darrylcousins/mars.resource/src/mars/resource/README.txt?rev=77833&view=markup

Note that I haven't worked on the mars packages for some time (lack of
time and not lack of enthusiasm).

The mars packages grew from a desire to make use of z3c packages.

Regards,
Darryl

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 13:40 +0100, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Grok has built-in support for a resourcedirectory-like feature with the 
> "static" subdirectories.
> 
> There's a couple of problems with it though:
> 
>    * The resources in the static directory are "published" in the 
> IBrowserDefault layer, and cannot be published in another layer.
> 
>    * Templates in one package might want to use macros defined in 
> another package. If the macro refers to resources in the static 
> directory, the lookup fails.
> 
> Both cases are by no means disasters if you ask me, and I think we 
> should continue to support the static directory for the "simple" situations.
> 
> For more complex setups however, I think it might be worthwhile to have 
> Grok support for Zope 3's (directory)resources. This would then play 
> nice with other resource related libraries "out there" like 
> zc.resourcelibrary.
> 
> I can imagine something like:
> 
>    import grok
> 
>    class FooResources(grok.DirectoryResources):
>        grok.name('foo') # optional, has some sensible default
>        grok.layer('my_apps_layer') # optional, like with grok.View
>        grok.directory('foo_resources') # optional, has some sensible
>                                        # default
> 
> What do others think?
> 
> 
> kind reagrds,
> jw
> 
> 
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