[Zope-dev] Non-ZCML config for ZCA. (Was: Anyone want to do Google Summer of code mentoring for PSF?)

[Jim Fulton]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> 4. zope.interface already does, and zope.component will as well, once
> it's ported. That means we get things like:
>
> class IMyFace(Interface):
>    whatevah
>
> class IMyFeet(Interface):
>    something
>
> @implementer(IMyFace)
> class MyFace(object):
>   yeahyeah
>
> @adapter(IMyFace, IMyFeet)
> class FootInMouth(object):
>   def __init__(self, mouth, foot):
>       pass
>
> The @adapter decorator so far only handles functions, but will be
> extended to classes once we port zope.component. I think also adapter
> today will only mark the object as adapts(...) does, but you will
> still use zcml to register the adapter. So probably we still need
> @adapter (as it already exists) and also another decorator (say
> @adapt() maybe?) that will both mark the class and register it in the
> registry, and hence do the same as the <adapter ... /> directive does
> today.
>
> Then we have subscriber, utility, resource and view directives.
> There's no particular reason I know of that means they couldn't be
> class decorators as well.
>
> That takes care of most of the configuration needed for the ZCA
> itself. How to deal with the rest probably gets more obvious once
> we've done this.

I'm not going to comment any more on the broader thread unless/until I
have something specific to propose.  Having said that, I'd like to go
on record as wanting to review the zca port to Python 3 before it's
finalized.

Jim

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