[Zope] - Yet another stupid question: image folders

[Jim Fulton]

"Christopher G. Petrilli" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:35:34AM +0000, Jim Fulton wrote:
> > "Christopher G. Petrilli" wrote:
> > >
> > > [ I make some offers as to Image handling ]
> >
> > I'm going to try to respond to the entire thread at once by simply stating
> > my position on how this should work.  Here goes:
> >
> > 1. Images, and perhaps all objects, should have a method named something
> >    like absoluteURL, that returns some kind of absolute URL.
> >
> >    Franky, I'm not sure how this will work, but your comments have convinced
> >    me that it should work. Note that it may only work in the context of a
> >    web request.
> 
> That's the only time it's really useful.  I think as sites grow and
> become more "media" intensive this will be a bigger and bigger deal.
> 
> >    Note that objects will not store their URL because an object
> >    may be referenced from many places and therefore may have more
> >    than one URL.  The value returned from absoluteURL will likely
> >    take into account the way the object was accessed.  (There will
> >    likely be lots of magic involved; best not think too hard
> >    about it or keep the glue gun handy. ;)
> 
> It seems that this "absoluteURL" should actually normally print it's
> normal location, regardless of how it was discovered via acquisition,
> no? 

Yes, that's what I meant.

> Maybe there should be an option to print it's acquired location,
> but ... otherwise all the caching in the world is never gonna help you.
> 
> > 2. The str for an image will use absoluteURL and will use size
> >    methods too, if there every are any.
> 
> I'm one who thinks that this should be stored in Properties (i.e. WIDTH
> HEIGHT attirbutes) that are calculated when the object is inserted into
> the database.

Yes, but accessed via methods.

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