[Zope-CMF] Re: [CMF 2.1] FSPageTemplate & Unicode

[Martin Aspeli]

Hanno Schlichting wrote:

> Maybe a compromise would be to only return those utilities back
> acquisition wrapped that where registered as tools?

That sounds sensible to me; most "new" local utilities wouldn't really 
behave the same way, I'm guessing.

> Jens added a new function to CMFCore.utils called registerToolInterface
> that registers a tools name and the interface that tool implements in a
> global registry (a simple module level dict). The primary purpose is to
> let getToolByName look up known tools by interface instead of using
> Acquisition.

Nice.

> While I'm not too proud of my persistent component registry proposed
> earlier in this thread it could be extended easily to only return those
> utilities back AQ-wrapped that are registered in the global tools registry.
> 
> See my attached aq-components.py file for a sample implementation.
> 
> Personally I think AQ-wrapping every utility is a bit too much as well.
> I've written a number of new utilities for Plone 3.0 that while having
> some persistent configuration don't need any Acquisition context.
> Magically wrapping those might indeed lead to unexpected behavior.

That is my worry too. Worse, if people start *depending* on that aq 
wrapping, we are going two steps forward and one step back. :)

Martin