[Zope-dev] Standard request/response API

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

Jim Fulton wrote:
> There's been some discussion recently about separating the interfaces  
> in zope.publisher from the implementations to facilitate other  
> implementations.
> 
> I think it would be great to standardize request and response APIs.   
> I'd love to see this extend beyond the Zope community.   I believe  
> that there have been some moves to try to do this at the WSGI level,  
> although I haven't kept up with the discussion.

See WebOb for Ian Bicking's effort (who did investigate a lot of these 
APIs including ours in that effort). WebOb is very widely adopted in the 
WSGI community already and I see no realistic way for us to make any 
headway there now that it is established. I believe that Pylons, 
TurboGears 2, repoze.bfg and restish all use it.

WebOb is more than an interface but also an implementation and in that 
sense is quite a bit like our zope.publisher. Even though it's a 
specific implementation it's on top of WSGI so people can adopt it 
easily. I think it would be very interesting to look for ways to make 
bits of Zope work with WebOb somehow.

Regards,

Martijn