[Zope-CMF] [dev] newstyle content creation

[Charlie Clark]

Am 22.04.2008 um 14:27 schrieb yuppie:

> Hi!
>
>
> Implementing newstyle content factories[1] and using events for  
> content creation[2] made it much easier to create content without  
> using invokeFactory and friends.
>
> These steps are still necessary:
>
> - check portal_type exists (*)
> - check allowType(portal_type) for the container (*)
> - get factory name for portal_type (*)
> - get IFactory utility for the factory name
> - use factory for creating an object
> - set object's portal_type (*)
> - set other object attributes if necessary
> - send ObjectCreatedEvent
> - add the object to the container using _setObject
>
> The steps marked with (*) are CMF specific.
>
>
> Today I checked in a formlib based add view for File objects[3].  
> There is a new "Add File" action available if you use the  
> "Experimental CMFDefault Browser Views" extension profile.
>
> Any feedback is welcome. Not sure if this makes Bug #161664[4]  
> obsolete.


This is excellent news! I have been struggling considerably with  
invokeFactory() on a recent project.

Does this mean we can develop add_forms analogue to Zope 3? And do I  
get the goodies just with an svn update?

Charlie
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