[Zope-dev] zope.component: calling an Interface and calling queryAdapter give differing results

[Tres Seaver]

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Chris Withers wrote:
> Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
>> I'm encouraged by the fact that this time it looks like people with time
>> are interested enough to actually begin producing code?  At the time
>> that I made the 2007 proposal I was still very new to the code base and
>> never got the courage up (or time available) to start making changes...
> 
> The changes we're talking about are only really syntactic sugar so not 
> really that scary.
> 
> I'm left wondering where to put the tests, since while I know 
> zope.component relies on zope.interface, is the reverse true?
> 
> I guess it must be, since calling an interface already does some adaptation.

No, there is no dependency:  zope.interface defines a hook point that
zope.component uses.  In the absence of zope.component, zope.interface
uses a default implementation.

> Can anyone else confirm this and give me a hint as to where the tests 
> and code should go?

Tests likely belong in 'zope.interface.tests.test_adapter'.



Tres.
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