[Zope-dev] Extending Zope's ZConfig Schema in a Product?

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:27:02AM -0400, Fred Drake wrote:
| On 7/1/05, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
| > FWIW, I don't know if it helps at all, but there's a concrete example of
| > allowing a 3rd-party product to add a section to zope.conf via %import
| > in the ClockServer product at
| > http://www.plope.com/software/ClockServer/ .  It sounds from your
| > description exactly like what you want to do, although it adds a section
| > rather than just a key, which might be fine for your case.
| 
| I'll note what you didn't.  ;-)  This works for ClockServer because
| you're adding a server type, and those are already allowed in the Zope
| configuration.
| 
| This doesn't cover the case of a section that isn't an
| "implementation" of an abstract section type already accepted by the
| Zope configuration (log handlers, servers, databases, storages...
| that's all I can remember off the top of my head).
| 
| The general case of being able to add a section (or anything else)
| isn't covered by the current implementation.

That is right. I've just learnt that the hard way *wink*.

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