[Grok-dev] Grok Application and content initialization

[Souheil CHELFOUH]

Hello Grokkers,

Well, I'd appreciate ANY opinions and reactions on this.
This is an important matter an it has to be discussed.
*takes his club out*



2009/9/29 Souheil CHELFOUH <trollfot at gmail.com>:
> Hello Grokkers !
>
> As i'm currently pushing my troll hands deep into grokui's guts, a
> couple of issues I wanted to fix now require some attention. The most
> annoying one is about the init of a Grok Application. I'll try to
> summarize the problem :
>
> Currently, when one adds a Grok Application, indexes and local
> utilities are created using an event subscriber plugged on
> IObjectAddedEvent. However, if one wants to add any content inside the
> Application during the creation process, there is a very high
> probability that he will use the same event (the only useable and
> reliable one) and his event subscriber has a very high probability to
> be fired BEFORE the indexes and the local utilities ones. It means
> that the content created by his subscriber won't be cataloged, nor
> added to the IntIds utility, etc...
>
> This situation is very annoying, since the creation of content as the
> site creation is a fairly common usecase (yes... one of mine, you've
> got it). I propose the creation of a new event we could call
> ApplicationInitializedEvent, for instance, and that would be fired
> AFTER the ObjectCreatedEvent. This would permit a more flexible
> handling of the different application statuses => instanciated,
> persisted, ready to be used. Obviously, this can't be plugged in
> grokui.base, it belongs to Grok itself. What do you guys think ?
>
> - Souheil 'Trollfot'
>