[Grok-dev] Grok Application and content initialization

[Sebastian Ware]

I agree that it is a work around, but it isn't a show stopper.

I am more surprised that people accept the fact that you can't add  
indexes to an existing application. That is at least my biggest gripe  
with Grok, and the work around requires many steps and is very  
complicated since it requires recreation of the application and  
exporting and importing of the entire data structure.

This makes the upgrade story seriously flawed in it's current state.

Mvh Sebastian

On 1 okt 2009, at 11.48, Souheil CHELFOUH wrote:

> Yes, ok, but, don't you agree that we need a generic solution ?
> This is a real issue. Having to run things by hand is not a solution
> for me, it's a work around.
> If I distribute a grok project, I'd rather have that automatized to
> avoid telling the user to run the things by hand himself
>
> 2009/10/1 Sebastian Ware <sebastian at urbantalk.se>:
>> I put my app init code in an init view that I run manually once after
>> creating an app. That way I don't experience this problem.
>>
>> Mvh Sebastian
>>
>> On 1 okt 2009, at 11.31, Souheil CHELFOUH wrote:
>>
>>> 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'
>>>>
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