[Zope-CMF] Re: Bug with CMFUid content when copied indirectly and some confusion.

[yuppie]

Hi Tim!


Tim Hoffman wrote:
> As I understand it, a call to uidtool.register(object) is in main
> template. This gets called and if the object doesn't have a uid a new uid
> (UniqueIdAnnotion instance) is created and stored as an attribute 
> if the content object (currently named cmf_uid).  (UniqueIdAnnotation has
> manage_afterAdd and manage_afterClone methods etc).  So far so good.

Reading your later mails, I think this is the basic misunderstanding. 
The call to uidtool.register(object) in main_template is no general 
mechanism to assign UIDs. It's just a part of the permalinks implementation.

UIDs are not assigned by default. If your application needs UIDs for 
folders, it has to register them.


Writing that, I wonder why you have to use 'register' to make sure you 
get an UID. Wouldn't it be better if 'getUid' registers objects if 
necessary?


Cheers,
	Yuppie