[Grok-dev] Lying user warnings with shared template dirs

[Souheil CHELFOUH]

The template problem has been corrected by Martijn and Vincent, during
the sprint in England and still needs to be merged, if I recall
correctly.

2010/1/30 Uli Fouquet <uli at gnufix.de>:
> Hi there,
>
> When one defines a template dir on module level that is shared (or not
> shared) with another module, grokcore.views template registry easily
> emits a user warning:
>
>  ...UserWarning: Found the following unassociated template(s) when
>  grokking 'cave': food.  Define view classes inheriting from
>  grok.View to enable the template(s)
>
> If, for better orientation, you decide to put all templates for all
> modules in, say, a `template/` dir, by::
>
>  grok.templatedir('templates')
>
> you easily get tons of false alerts of the above type. And there is no
> way to go around these warnings (at least none that I know).
>
> This is confusing and even a lie, when a certain template was associated
> with a class from another module than the one currently grokked.
>
> The real solution would, of course, be to grok all modules first, and
> then decide, which templates have really no associated view. This,
> however, would require a complete different 'grokking-workflow'.
>
> A quick workaround would, however, be to disable the above messages for
> modules that explicitly set the template dir. Templates in a shared
> template dir that have no associate wouldn't emit a warning then, but
> warnings for other templates would be surpressed.
>
> I'd love to implement the latter in grokcore.view, but would like to get
> your opinions first.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Uli
>
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