[Zope-dev] Re: Directory resource factories

[Malthe Borch]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> +1. Some more details would need to be worked out.  For example, to work 
> for your use case, it would need to be involved in search, or the 
> searching rules would need to be made more powerful, so, when looking 
> for some file name, it is prepared to consider files that have the file 
> name as a base and use some additional extension, as in your example.  I 
> would love to see someone work this out. A proposal would be appreciated.

Sounds about right. There could be two cases, then:

1. A filename has some base extension
2. A filename has some base extension and
    an additional extension that corresponds to
    a named adapter, IResourceProvider, deriving
    from IContentProvider.

The default IResourceProvider (registered for '') would simply open the 
filename and return the contents.

> I recently added a hack^H^H^H^Henhancement to zc.resourcelibrary to let 
> you specify a custom directory resource factory to work around this 
> limitation so I could have a dynamically generated js file.

Very useful. I'll look for the changeset.

\malthe