[Grok-dev] How to create an interface providing another interface

[Lennart Regebro]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 14:32, Simon Elbaz <simon.elbaz at free.fr> wrote:
> Then an adapter called 'undo' adapts (IContent,IBrowserRequest) to the
> interface EditMenu is registered with the factory undo (which will be the
> result of a future lookup)

Interfaces should normally be called ISomthinng, ie IEditMenu in this
case. If somebody decided to call it otherwise, they are confusing me.
:)

>>>> zope.component.getAdapters((object, request), self.getMenuItemType())
>
> The getMenuItemType function gets the utility providing IMenuItemType under
> the name 'edit':the result is the EditMenu interface defined at line n°23.
> The getAdapters function returns the factory stored for all the adapters of
> (object, request) implementing EditMenu interface. These factories are the
> menu items.
>
> If you followed me till here, thank you :)
> This is what I have understood from menu.py and menu.txt. I need to create
> an interface like EditMenu, providing IMenuItemType interface.

Yeah, seems you are right then, getMenuItemType looks for interfaces
implementing an interface.
I've never done that, so I don't know the details of it.
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