[Zope-CMF] Re: GenericSetup TI listing

[yuppie]

Hi Florent!


Florent Guillaume wrote:
> CMFCore.browser.typeinfo.FactoryTypeInformationAddView.getProfileInfos 
> parses all the profiles types/*.xml files to check their meta_type. Why 
> not check simply typesinfo.xml ?

The CMF 1.5 version of typesinfo.xml doesn't contain the meta_type. My 
plan was to parse old profiles as well, at least in CMF 1.6. I'll fix 
the parsing of old types/*.xml files, it doesn't work right now.

Besides that those add views are work in progress - I plan to add 
similar views for all tools. This will make changes in the shared code 
necessary.

> Also, why is the meta_type information duplicated in typesinfo.xml and 
> types/foo.xml?

The adapter for the container is responsible for creating empty 
sub-objects. So in this case the TypesToolXMLAdapter needs to know the 
meta_type information to find the correct class.

The meta_type information in types/foo.xml isn't strictly necessary, but 
it allows to see to which meta_type the XML file belongs and to check 
the meta_type before applying an XML file to an object.

I also could imagine situations where we want to use those XML files 
outside a profile that contains a typesinfo.xml.


Cheers,

	Yuppie