[Grok-dev] Grok Application and content initialization

Souheil CHELFOUH trollfot at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 06:21:31 EDT 2009


My idea for the indexes was to work on it in grokui.catalog, a package
I had in mind to add/remove index and purge/reindex catalogs.
But that's yet another problem :)

I'm very concerned about the actions at an application creation, as
it's the very basic first step.
About the upgrade, I'll have a deeper look once I solved this problem :)

2009/10/1 Sebastian Ware <sebastian at urbantalk.se>:
> 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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