[Grok-dev] contentprovider component

[Sylvain Viollon]

On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:58:06 +0200
Jan-Wijbrand Kolman <janwijbrand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
  Hello,

> I'd like to formalize a content provider component, being a
> generalization of, for example, the viewlet manager.
> 
> Up until now I "abused" the viewlet manager as plain content providers
> in our applications. And while this works, it might be wise to
> separate these components out on a Grok level.
> 
> Since the component is very much view-like, I'd like to add this
> component to grokcore.view. The components in grokcore.viewlet could
> then be based on this generalization.
> 
> Any thoughts on this is highly appreciated!
> 

  In Silva I do already have such a component. It is the same than a
  viewlet manager in fact, at the exception it is referred by 'provider'
  in the template namespace instead of 'viewletmanager' (which is kind
  of long).

  Regards,

  Sylvain,

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