[Zope-CMF] MetaType in TypeInformation objects

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:38:07 +0100


Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> Nope;  you can't know from the name of the factory method what
> class it will instantiate, and therefore you can't get to the
> meta_type.

Yeah, I see this now, but this is a problem. I've already been bitten several
times by putting the wrong thing in that box. Should this problem be solved by
Zope in general? Should factory methods return the meta_type of objects they
create?

I dunno, I'm just guessing here...

cheers,

Chris