[Zope-dev] Turning acquisition off selectively.

[Jim Fulton]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> morten@esol.no wrote:
> >
> > That is, with a simple method, and not disabling the Acqusition class,
> > something like self.aq_disabled('attribute') .
> 
> So kindof the inverse of using Aquisition.Explicit and using the
> aq_acquire method?
> 
> What you describe would be really cool...
> 
> The only workaround for now is to use calls to ac_acquire() and provide
> a filter function, but this doesn't help when other code that you have
> no control over accesses an attribute that you'd rather not have
> acquired :-(

I'm inclined to think that in some future version of Zope, we
should switch to making explicit acquisition the norm.

Jim

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