[Grok-dev] Re: Admin UI name change suggestion

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
[snip]
>> grok.Application by itself isn't implying it's necessarily a root of 
>> anything; it's a mixin class and it's up to the person who writes the 
>> application to make it some form of containerish thing.
> 
> True. So, if it's entirely up to the application author to give it 
> meaning, then what's in grok.Application currently? It really just gives 
> us an "add menu item" in the admin UI, doesn't it.
> 
> Then why don't we name it so? grok.AddableInAdminUI. Now, that obviously 
> sucks. But perhaps we can make it a class-level directive::
> 
>   class TodoList(grok.Container):
>       grok.addable_in_admin_ui()
> 
> Admittedly, that still sucks. But you get the idea :).

Yes, but it all sucks more than grok.Application. If you mix in 
grok.Application, you imply:

* it's an ISite thingy

* it's the root thingy of the application (even if it's not a container,
   which typically it is)

* typically contains utilities with configuration state, typically with 
some form of end-user configuration UI

* typically contains some indexes

* can get to it using application_url() and such

* is addable in admin UI

* could potentially have a title and description that show up in UIs

Moreover, you can say:

If you want to make some object into a new standalone application with 
Grok, start with mixing in grok.Application.

I really think the word's just fine. :)

Regards,

Martijn