[Zope-CMF] Metatype() standard?

[Marc Lindahl]

I'm crossposting this because I'm interested in feedback - is 
Metatype() just a vestige of TypesTool or is it intended to be 
standardized on?  I was investigating this area and found that Type() 
actually returns the TITLE of the type, not the meta_type, unless there 
is no title, and also that Type() is supposed to be depreciated.  
What's the real story?  Anyone know?
Thanks,
Marc


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> From: Christian Heimes <heimes at faho.rwth-aachen.de>
> Date: Wed Mar 3, 2004  1:48:20  AM America/New_York
> To: archetypes-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Archetypes-devel] Re: missing Metatype()
>
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> Marc Lindahl wrote:
> | I noticed (while fixing bugs in CMFRating) that Archetypes (at least,
> | 1.2.4) is missing the Metatype() definition.
>
> The method Metadata() isn't part of the DC specs
> (http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/) and isn't in the list of
> additional meta data fields in CMFCore. Only the TypesTool and type
> information have a method Metadata(). I grepped the whole cmf, zope,
> plone and must of the collective tree to be shure.
>
> |  It's needed - Type() is
> | NOT the same thing - it gives back the Title of the type, which can 
> be
> | user-edited, etc.!
>
> The types title is editable only through the ZMI (portal_types) or the
> types tool api. If an user changes something so deep in the system and
> screws up the system it's not our fault. An user *must* know what 
> she/he
> does.
>
> |
> | Adding this code to BaseObject.py and ExtensibleMetadata.py fixes it:
> |
> |     security.declareProtected(CMFCorePermissions.View, 'Metatype')
> |     def Metatype(self):
> |         """
> |             Returns the Zope 'meta_type' for this content object.
> |             May be used for building the list of portal content
> |             meta types.
> |         """
> |         return self.meta_type
>
> Rejected
>
> | BTW, there's a bunch of "fixme"s in ExtensibleMetaType, is the
> | dublinCore stuff ever going to be fleshed out?
>
> Yes your right! Format(), Publisher() and Identifer() are broken.
>
> Christian
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