[Zope-PAS] Writeable property sheets

[Jacob Holm]

Hello PAS developers.

I am trying to figure out how to create a plugin that allows writeable 
property sheets. It appears that the IUpdatePlugin and IValidationPlugin 
interfaces were intended to support some form of writeable properties 
but they do not seem to be used anywhere. The only way i can see is to 
create a IUserFactoryPlugin, just to override the addPropertysheet 
method to use a custom IPropertySheet implementation. This seems like a 
lot of work for something that should be simple.

To fix this I suggest adding an IPropertysheetFactoryPlugin interface 
along these lines:

class IPropertysheetFactoryPlugin( Interface ):
     """ Create a new IPropertySheet.
     """

     def createPropertysheet( sheet_id, data ):
         """ Return an IPropertySheet, if possible.

         o Return None to allow another plugin, or the default to fire.
         """

And letting PropertiedUser grow a _addPropertysheet method:

     def _addPropertysheet( self, id, sheet ):
         """ Add a new propertysheet.

         o sheet must implement IPropertySheet
         """
         self._propertysheets[ id ] = sheet

And changing PluggableAuthService to use the new interfaces.



Would anyone care to comment?


\Jacob

P.S. Has anyone else noticed the inconsistent choice of upper/lowercase 
used for the 's' in propertysheet?