[Grok-dev] grok.Application as zope root

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

(I make it a seperate discussion thread).

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Sebastian Ware wrote:
>> Martijn blogged:
>>
>> "Work is being done to extend and improve the Grok admin UI, in 
>> particular to show information about which views are available for a 
>> content object. Also one of our conclusions of these discussions is 
>> that "admin UI" is not a very good name. It's really a UI dedicated to 
>> serving developers while they develop a Grok-based application. We 
>> haven't figured out a good new name for this yet."
>>
>> And in that context, how about calling it the Grok Dashboard?
> 
> To be honest, the more I think about it, the more I think we should not 
> require the admin UI to create application objects. The admin UI is 
> great, but mostly because of Uli's extensions.
> 
> I've shown Grok to many newcomers now (13 people just this week) and 
> most are completely confused by it. Brandon and Shane seemed to have 
> made similar experiences. I've come to the conclusion that Grok should 
> make the grok.Application subclass the root object of the ZODB, or at 
> least create them automatically.
> 
> This would "reduce" the admin UI to be a pure inspection and 
> documentation tool, which I think is what it is best at. It can simply 
> focus on that instead of trying to be too many things.

I agree with these observations, *however*, there needs to be a way to 
make "taking over the zope root" optionally in a very easy way: I forsee 
people do want to have multiple applications running in a Zope instance 
- I know I will need this option.

Maybe we can introduce a grok.ApplicationRoot that will "take over" the 
zope root, where grok.Application retains the current behaviour?

regards,
jw