[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] newstyle content creation

[Raphael Ritz]

Charlie Clark wrote:

[..]

> 
> That's probably the easiest solution at the moment although it would be 
> nice to be able to declare this in the schema. I suppose two different 
> interfaces à la IObject and IMutableObject provide a way. I find 
> fiddling with the form fields too easy to mess up! I think the only 
> thing that's missing from this is a nicer way of getting the 
> portal_type. As this is configurable in the ZMI and perfectly possible 
> to have several types deriving from the same class and, therefore, from 
> the same interface. Although as with browser views this should no longer 
> be possible. I can't see an easy way of doing this but it seems to me 
> much more natural to do this in the interface rather than in the view as 
> it's essentially declarative work. Maybe a dedicated schema field for 
> CMF Types and associated hidden widget?
> 

Alternatively, support for portal_type specification at runtime (and
anything else for that matter) could be handled as a behavior in the
sense of

   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.behavior/

maybe? Just a thought ...

Raphael