[Zope-dev] zope.dublincore and zope.copypastemove not compatible?

Michael Howitz mh at gocept.com
Tue Sep 14 11:26:42 EDT 2010


Am 19.08.2010 um 15:43 schrieb Michael Howitz:
> Am 19.08.2010 um 11:56 schrieb Michael Howitz:
>> Am 06.02.2010 um 17:43 schrieb Michael Howitz:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I found something strange in metadata when copying a persistent object.
>>> 
>>> My situation is the following:
>>> I have a container with some elements inside. I create a copy of this container using
>>> 
>>> zope.copypastemove.ObjectCopier(my_container).copyTo(my_container.__parent__)
>>> 
>>> (Actually I use zope.copypastemove.interfaces.IObjectCopier(my_container) but this calls the adapter mentioned above.)
>>> 
>>> Side note: Is this the right way to copy an persistent object nowadays?
>>> 
>>> This happens tho dublin core metadata then:
>>> As zope.dublincore.timeannotators.CreatedAnnotator is subscribed to zope.lifecycleevent.IObjectCreatedEvent it gets called as the ObjectCopiedEvent is a subclass of ObjectCreatedEvent. The copy of the container gets a new creation date set in its metadata.
>>> 
>>> But zope.copypastemove.dispatchToSublocations calls the subscribers for the sublocations using 
>>> zope.component.subscribers((sub, event), None)
>>> 
>>> So the zope.dublincore.timeannotators.CreatedAnnotator does not get called as it is not registered for (object, event) but only for (event,).
>>> 
>>> This leads to a strange situation: the metadata of the copied container get updated but not the metadata of its contents.
>>> This behavior has not changed since version 3.4.0 which was about 2,5 years ago.
>>> 
>>> I think this is a long-standing bug and it should it be fixed in zope.dublincore by registering the subscribers for (object, event)? (Additionally or exclusively, I'm not sure.)
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> As there were no replies I this bug into launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.copypastemove/+bug/620353
> 
> I implemented a solution, see comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.copypastemove/+bug/620353/comments/1
> 
> Could someone please review the solution before I merge it into trunk?
> Thanks in advance.

As there were no comments, I merged the changes into trunk and released
zope.dublincore 3.8.0 and zope.copypastemove 3.8.0 today.

Yours sincerely,
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