[Zope-CMF] Types, meta_type, content_meta_type, etc...
Shane Hathaway
shane@zope.com
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:08:59 -0400
seb bacon wrote:
>> The 'Type()' of a TypeInformation object is currently mis-defined
>> to return the TIO's title/id; this is *wrong*, because the Title
>> of a TIO *is* presentation (it should be localizable, for instance).
>> The *desired* implementation would be always to return the ID for
>> a TIO's 'Type()', which should always be identical to the 'Type()'
>> of instances which are created from it.
>
>
> Hooray! I've been worried about that for about a year, not being sure
> if I was right or not.
>
> I wonder if there are any backwards-compatibility issues...?
I talked with Tres, and we agreed that we should be simply using the
getId() method of the type info object. I think we also agreed that
TIO's shouldn't have a "Type" method at all, since that implies a
behavior TIO's don't have.
Shane