[Grok-dev] Re: Getting the application in views and viewlets

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Graham Stratton wrote:
> I seem to quite often need to get the application, or the application 
> url, in views and viewlets.
> 
> Views have the application_url method, but viewlets don't. I'd be 
> tempted to suggest that both views and viewlets grow an `application` 
> property.
> 
> Do other people find this a common requirement, or is there something 
> wrong with the way I'm developing applications?

I think your issues are addressed by my post just now [1] about the 
jw-viewlet-fix branch and https://bugs.launchpad.net/grok/+bug/226555.

As a result of the fix for that bug, there is actually no need anymore 
for having an (application_)url() method on the viewlets.


kind regards,
jw


[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.grok.devel/5348