[Grok-dev] Re: What would a megrok.z3cform (and a Zope2/plone.z3cform equivalent) look like?

[Martin Aspeli]

Martijn Faassen wrote:

> grok.View adds more goodies than just creating a custom template. It has 
> the very essential 'url' method. Anyway, I'd expect all views, including 
>   forms, to be Grok views. We can't suddenly have a major exception.

Fair enough.

>>>  This suggests to me the 
>>> introduction of a new base classes for EditForm, AddForm etc in 
>>> megrok.form anyway, which also helps answering the import question.
>> I think having to maintain a parallel base class hierarchy is a bit of a
>> shame, and breaks existing z3c.form documentation in a way, but it's
>> probably not so bad.
> 
> I think it cannot be sensibly avoided if we assume grok.View style 
> behavior. For the other namespaces, we shouldn't start flattening 
> things, I agree. Perhaps for convenience import things like 'button' and 
> 'field' into the megrok.form namespace too.

+1

btw, are we saying megrok.form, or megrok.z3cform?

Also, what would the Five/Zope 2 name be? five.grok.z3cform? 
five.megrok.z3cform?

Martin

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