[Zope3-dev] Service (was: How to get Principals Roles? Owner-Role?)

[Marcus J. Ertl]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:21:56 +0300, Steve Alexander wrote:

Hi!

>> PS: I'm proud to have written my first local service! :o)
>Great! What does it do?

Nothing great! I was in need of some *good looking* unique ids for all
messages postet in my forum. My first thought was to use the object
hub, but it generates long and not that userfriendly ids. I want a as
short as possible, good looking id, because it#s exposed to user in
urls.

So I wrote a service, where a object may register for ids, and can ask
for them. At the time I just compose them from a prefix and a contiuos
incrementet number. To keep it shor, I decided to use hex-numbers! ;o)
For messages, the ids look like: msg1f or msgff or msg234.

That's all!

But on that, some questions:

Is it right, that I have to register the service type by::

  <serviceType 
     id="LNGlobalNameService"
     interface=".interfaces.ILNGlobalNameService.ILNGlobalNameService"
/>

(Strange name, 'LNGlobalNameService' for a *local* service!)

I didn't found that in the README.TXT in the services directory. (Looks
a little bit outdated!)

Bye
   Marcus