[Zope-dev] Two small convenience suggestions for zope.interface and zope.component

[Jim Fulton]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to add support for the following:
>
> 1) Provider decorator:
>
>  @provider(IFoo)
>  def some_function(context)
>      pass
>
>
> This is an alternative to doing a separate alsoProvides() on the  
> function.
>
> 2) An interfaceProvides directive:
>
>
>  class IFoo(Interface):
>      interfaceProvides(ISomeMarker)
>
> This is alternative to doing alsoProvides() on the interface.
>
> The reason for this is that currently, you have to put those
> alsoProvides() lines after the function or interface. This makes them
> difficult to find if the bodies of the functions or interfaces are  
> long,
> and goes against the convention of having the "what is this"  
> information
> at the top of the entity.
>
> I can probably help implement this. Any thoughts?


+1

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation