[Grok-dev] template association - suboptimal magic?

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> Whenever you mention "the (view) component's classname (lower-cased)",
> what is actually looked up is the component "name", as defined by
> grok.name(). If grok.name() is missing on the component, the default
> behaviour is to use the lowercase of the class name.

That's not what I see happening in
grokcore.view.templatereg.checkTemplates(). What I see there is:

  ...
  factory_name = factory.__name__.lower()
  ...

where a few lines later this factory name is used to lookup a template
(in case there was no grok.template() directive used).


regards,
jw