[Zope-CMF] TTW Actions Forthcoming

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 09:43  AM, Andrew Sawyers wrote:

>  _actions = [ActionInformation(id='folderContents'
>                                 , title='Folder contents'
>                                 , action=Expression(
>                text='string: ${folder_url}/folder_contents')
>                                 , condition=Expression(
>                text='python: folder is not object')
>                                 , permissions=('List folder contents',)
>                                 , category='object'
>                                 , visible=1
>                                  )]
> I've included support for backwards compatability if you have 
> customized a
> tool or written your own tool in which listActions returns a list of
> dictionaries.  If you're currently writing a custom tool, you 
> might want to
> look at the new way this is going to be handled.
> These new features will make it into the head soon; and I just 
> wanted to let
> people know so you have the chance to check them out of cvs if 
> you'd like as
> well as provide any feedback.  See
> http://cvs.zope.org/CMF/?only_with_tag=andrew_ttw_actions-branch 
> for diffs
> or
> http://cvs.zope.org/CMF/CMF.tar.gz?tarball=1&only_with_tag=andrew_ttw_action
> s-branch
> to download the branch tarball.
> Thanks,
> Andrew Sawyers

Is listActions() support continuing **only** for the sake of 
backward compatibility?  Some of the action providers I've written 
are much more dynamic, generating the list based on various object 
states.  I'd still like this to be a preferred member of the 
ActionProvider interface.

Jeffrey P Shell, jeffrey@cuemedia.com