[Zope3-dev] Enabling services

[Guido van Rossum]

> A recent update to SiteDefinition.py contains the following snippet
> 
>         sc = ServiceConfiguration('ObjectHub', here + ('ObjectHub-1',))
>         configure.setObject(None, sc)
> 
>         # XXX I want to register and possibly activate these services,
>         #     but the following code doesn't work. :-(
>         ##sc.status = "Active"
>         # XXX And the following code doesn't work either. :-(
>         registry = sm.createConfigurationsFor(sc)
>         ##registry.register(sc)
>         ##registry.activate(sc)
> 
> sc needs to be context wrapped, e.g. by doing this
> 
>   key = configure.setObject(None, sc)
>   sc = configure[key]
> 
> Then
> 
>   sc.status = Active
> 
> will work (import Active from Zope.App.OFS.Service.ConfigurationInterfaces).
> 
> Hm...
> 
>   configure[configure.setObject(None, sc)].status = Active
> 
> Maybe not. :-)

Thanks!  That worked, after I context-wrapped everything else.

Do you happen to know if I can look up service factories by name?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)