[Grok-dev] grok.url() requiring a request object a bit inconvenient

[Martijn Faassen]

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> There're a couple of packages out there that do get to the "global" 
> request. We should look that these packages for inspiration when 
> implementing grok.global_request(). On the top of my head there is:
> 
> * hurry.resource (or is it hurry.zope.resource)

The latter (hurry.zoperesource), as hurry.resource doesn't know anything 
about Zope.

> * zope.globalrequest

I think the simplest thing would be to simply make Grok depend on 
zope.globalrequest and import the method to get the global request into 
the grok namespace.

I'm +1 on that approach.

Regards,

Martijn