[Zope-dev] Re: death to index_html; ObjectManager?

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:57:37 +0100


On Wednesday 17 Apr 2002 4:23 pm, Casey Duncan wrote:

>I more or less copied the spirit of the Zope3 implementation. Whether
>that was a good idea or not in this context is debatable 8^)

Ahhh, that makes sense. Im currently not following Zope3 too closely.

>> smart index_html attribute that delegates to the real method

>Yes it could be, but I felt like that was not a proper integration of 
>the solution. Perhaps the name of the proposal crept into my thinking 
>here. To me killing index_html is not the same as hiding it behind a 
>custom index_html.

It would be extinct as far as the content manager can see. index_html would 
still be exposed to product and ZClass developers, but that is unavoidable.

>I think you are on to something. However I might take this idea a step
>further (into Zope3 land) and make the assertion in the __implements__
>attribute. So that objects supplying a custom browser_default can assert:
>
>__implements__ = ICustomBrowserDefault

IZope3PublisherSemantics ?