[Zope3-dev] Missing ObjectContentModifiedEvent
Florent Guillaume
fg at nuxeo.com
Tue May 31 06:29:51 EDT 2005
Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> Based on the discussion so far, I'm convinced that something like this
> would be useful, at least as an optional feature, as you suggest.
>
> I suggest we generalize this a bit. I suggest that the ObjectModified
> event could accept one or more modification descriptions (hints?).
> Some examples:
>
> ObjectModifiedEvent(obj, IObjectFile)
>
> This says that we modified the objects file data. Note that
> an interface is an acceptable description. In fact, we
> might allow pretty muich anything as a description.
>
> ObjectModifiedEvent(obj, IObjectFile,
> Attributes(IZopeDublinCore, 'title', 'description'),
> )
>
> This says we modified the file data and the DC title and description.
That looks good to me. Especially because, using interfaces, we could
theoretically express more than just a set of attributes that have
changed on an object. I'm thinking of:
- having the interface itself add semantics to what a subscriber could
want to do about the change (i.e., it could recognize IZopeDublinCore and
decide to delay its work),
- having the interface express more complex object structure than just a
set of attributes (I'm thinking about XML Schema-derived / XForms
interfaces, where you can represent deep structures).
That's all science-fiction of course.
Florent
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