[Zope3-Users] Re: content type name

[Tom Dossis]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Tom Dossis wrote:
> 
>>
>> How can I associate names for my content types, e.g. 'Custom 
>> Document', 'My Image Type', etc. ?
> 
> 
> As Stephan said, you really don't. Content types in Zope are interfaces 
> because those are more meaningful than simple strings. Whenever you need 
> a name to be presented to a user, you use menu entries etc.
> 
>> Also, is there a standard way to do this for standard content, e.g. 
>> "Folder", "DTML Page", etc. ?
>>
>> This would correspond to portal_type/meta_type under Zope2.
> 
> 
> The content type interfaces correspond to portal_type/meta_type. Strings 
> (really, unicode string) are only necessary for user presentation. This 
> is covered by menu entries most of the time. If you have other use 
> cases, feel free to present them here and we'll discuss them.

That's it exactly - I'm after the simple string for user presentation.

However my application isn't browser based, rather a gui which currently 
is a fat client in that it accesses zope3 directly.  I guess it should 
probably have it's own presentation view, but I don't want to tackle 
that at this stage.

In any case, a user could be viewing content other than in a browser. 
For example, in an xmlrpc based folder listing to a character terminal, 
it may be desirable to include a content type string.

It seems roundabout to obtain this from a browser menu title entry.

> 
>> It appears it could defined via ZCML zope/content/factory/title.  Is 
>> this the case?  How can I retrieve this?
> 
> 
> What you probably mean is:
> 
> <content class="foobar.FooBar">
>   <factory
>       id="foobar.FooBarFactory"
>       title="Create foobars"
>       />
> </content>
> 
> This registers a factory component and is in *no* correspondance of the 
> content type that might or might not be implemented by the class 
> foobar.FooBar.

I was looking for a way to associate a content type string which I 
didn't think should be defined via a browser menu title...

Thanks
-Tom