[Zope] DTML Syntax contd. + rant

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Michel Pelletier wrote:

> > While I'm on the soapbox, another thing about Zope which irks me is
> > its gratuitous inconsistencies.  I can't apply what I learn in one
> > part of Zope to another part.  In Folders, I can use "objectValues"
> > to get a list of the objects contained in the folder.  When I want
> > to iterate over the Users in a User Folder, though, "objectValues"
> > doesn't work.  You have to go searching through the ZQR to see that
> > you must use "getUserNames" instead.  What's up with that?
> 
> User Folders aren't Object Managers, so they don't contain any of the
> same object manager code as other foldoids.
> 
> Having User Folders look vaguely like and be named like other folders is
> just a simple error.  Inconsistent, you are correct.  But it's just a
> naming issue, they should have been called something else.

In particular, I believe LDAPAdaptor isn't folderish at all and
GenericUserFolder will return quite different things if you call
objectValues() rather than getUserNames().

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