[Zope-dev] Re: zope2 requests VS zope3 requests

[Stefan H. Holek]

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The whole point of sticking with Zope2 is backward compatibility,  
isn't it? If I wanted something that doesn't run my old products and  
applications anymore I would go to Zope3 directly, why thank you.

Please keep this in mind in your spree to make Zope2 look like Zope3.  
Backward compatibility is paramount. Next thing you are going to  
remove implicit acquisition ;-).

Stefan

On 28. Mai 2006, at 12:53, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> That's true. However, we really want the Zope 2 request to  
> (eventually)
> become like the Zope 3 browser request. In fact, in many places we
> already assume that the Zope 2 request is like a Zope 3 browser  
> request.
> We stick IBrowserRequest on it and hand it over to lots of Zope 3
> machinery. So far this has worked relatively well, but there are
> problems coming up with certain API subtleties.
>
> I think the biggest challenge will be to deprecate __getattr__ access
> for request variables and only allow __getitem__ for this. Then, the
> getattr protocol will be used to access the request API only. For
> example, IBrowserRequest demands that requests have a 'debug'  
> attribute.
> In Zope 2, we have the problem that request.debug is an alternate
> spelling of request.form['debug']. If that alternate spelling wasn't
> there, request.debug was free for the IBrowserRequest API. Right now
> we're doing a frame hack to see where the caller is coming from and
> either yield request.debug or request.form['debug'].

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