[Zope] DTML Syntax contd. + rant

[Michel Pelletier]

Stuart 'Zen' Bishop wrote:
> 
> 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().

Yep.  I think what we're really dealing with here are Authenticator
objects.  For historical (hysterical) reasons they'll probably allways
be called User Folders.

How's that GenericUserFolder coming along?

-Michel