[Zope3-dev] Relative path and default for factory id?

[Jim Fulton]

Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> one question and one suggestion:
> 
> Why can't factory id be relative class paths.
> 
> <factory id=".event.EventFolder" description="CS EventFolder"/>
> 
> does not work, whereas
> 
> <factory id="CS.Event.event.EventFolder" description="CS EventFolder"/>
> 
> works? In most other ZCML directives relative paths work.

See the tutorial.  Relative paths can only be used to name objects in
modules.  Ids are global and, thus, have nothing to be relative to.

Ids and objects names are different, even though they both involve dots/

Jim

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