[Zope3-dev] Calling persistent function
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Mon Jan 26 10:56:37 EST 2004
Danny Smith wrote:
...
>>Some other notes:
>>
>>- It will eventually be possible to use them via the
>>zpt module
>> namespace:
>>
>> modules/foo.bar/myfunc
>
>
> That would be great. I know it does not mean much
> given that python script can be embedded directly into
> a template, but it's more familiar code managment.
>
> One problem I have with that is that
> modules['time'].asctime() is forbidden in zpt.
This is because, before you can use a file-system
module, you must make a security assertion for it
in zpt. The following should work:
<module module="time">
<allow attributes="asctime" />
</module>
You can also use an interface attribute with allow.
You can use require, rather than allow, but this is
probably bogus.
Obviously, it would be nice for someone to add a lot
of these declarations for standard modules to the standard
z3 configuration.
> How do
> I put the time and date in a zpt template? This
> definately falls into the category of "one-liner" in
> every web framework I've ever used, including Zope 2.
Yup. Someone needs to take the time to work this out.
Really, a lot more effort needs to go into improving the
scriptors experience. We want that, but we haven't gotten
to it yet.
> As far as I can tell, in Zope 3 I need to create a
> TimeUtility, register it in ZCML, query the utility
> service and then it works.
That would probably be overkill.
> Am I missing something?
Nope.
BTW, whatever API we provide for this, needs to make use of localized
dates and times.
Jim
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