[Zope-dev] CopySupport bug or feature?

[Chris McDonough]

I've been able to get around this by creating a _notifyOfCopyTo on the
folder type that does the recursion.  There's a delicate dance in some
of my code that does some work in _notifyOfCopyTo and other work in
_getCopy.  This could be improved I bet, but touching the code means
that you surely own it forever. ;-)

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:05 -0400, Geoff Davis wrote:
> I have been developing some classes that need to know when they are copied
> or moved.  I have been achieving this by adding my own versions of
> _notifyOfCopyTo, _postCopy, and manage_afterClone.  Everything works as
> expected when you copy / paste an individual object.  However, I have
> recently been made aware of a problem with this approach: if you copy not
> the object itself, but rather a folder containing the object, only
> manage_afterClone is called.  In looking through OFS/CopySupport.py and
> OFS/ObjectManager.py, I discovered the source of the problem:
> manage_afterClone is called recursively on ObjectManagers, but
> _notifyOfCopyTo and _postCopy are not.
> 
> Is this intentional?  If not, I'd like to check in a fix.
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
> 
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