[Grok-dev] object relationships

[Jeroen Michiel]

Martijn Faassen-2 wrote:
> 
> You can do these registrations with the local_utility() directive on the 
> application object. This is nicer as it integrates properly with the 
> rest of the configuration system of Grok. I believe I left hints in the 
> doctest of z3c.relationfield on how to do that.
> 
Guess I missed that one then. I'll try it out!


Martijn Faassen-2 wrote:
> 
>> you also need an IObjectPath implementation, so I did this:
>> class ObjectPath(grok.GlobalUtility):
>>     grok.provides(IObjectPath)
>>     def path(self, obj):
>>         return path(grok.getSite(), obj)
>>     def resolve(self, path):
>>         return resolve(grok.getSite(), path)
> 
> Yup. What's 'path' in this case? full Zope physical paths? That would 
> work or the z3c.objpath impelmentations will help. Perhaps you used 
> those looking at it, and that's good.
> 
That's indeed z3c.objpath I'm using.
But I have a problem with it, if I want to delete my app. Apparently the
grok.getSite() returns the zope.app.folder.folder.Folder my app is part of,
but that doesn't seem to have a __name__ attribute (it's None) so the path
function of objpath raises
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, NoneType found
I thought getSite typically returned your Application object, but in this
case it doesn't.
Is this because the app is being destroyed?
How can I safely get to my app object in this case (there is no
grok.getApplication, but I wonder why?)


Martijn Faassen-2 wrote:
> 
> You could mix IHasIncomingRelations into the interface as well, but this 
> works just fine too.
> 

Well, I figured (although my interface is called ReferedData, but that's
just a name), this interface itself doens't have to know it's being refered
to (and how it is done), that's an implementation detail, but I might be
wrong? 
Of course, as the Relation field is part of my ITestData interface, it makes
sense there to mix in IHasOutgoingRelations in the interface. 
In that case I should subclass my interface from IHasOutgoingRelations and
not use the grok.implements directive, right? 


Martijn Faassen-2 wrote:
> 
> This is unfortunately a bit of a workaround, generating the other widget 
> and ignoring the widget for 'rel'. I need to look into making this work 
> properly so you don't have to do this.
> 
That would be wonderful!
Would using another existing widget by using 'custom_widget' possibly work?


Martijn Faassen-2 wrote:
> 
> Here you are. I sure hope you'll stick around on grok-dev and figure 
> more stuff out! Perhaps with my hints included you could turn it into a 
> document we can include on grok.zope.org?
> 

Well, I won't have much choice than to stick around: I chose Grok as a
framework for an internal project at work. So I hope to get some results
quickly, or my boss will start asking questions (well, he already does,
actually) ;-)
I was planning to make a how-to out of this in my free time sometime, to
help out some fellow beginners.
I'm already writing one for using zc.sourcefactory, but haven't finished it
yet.

Regards, Jeroen

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