[Zope-CMF] MetaType in TypeInformation objects

Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 07:18:13 -0400


seb bacon wrote:

> I always wondered about that.  The whole type_name / meta_type disctinction
> causes me a lot of confusion, since it seems that the object's type
> name gets used like a meta_type most of the time.  
> 
> Can we be enlightened?  


The metatype is there for times when we need to know the true metatype

(e.g., when building lists for the "Find" tab of the catalog;  when
filtering 'objectValues', etc.)

Tres.
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