[Zope3-Users] Inheritance conflict between Interface and Skin

[Florian Lindner]

Hello,
I have the following situation.

an ICentershockSkin derived from Rotterdam:

	class ICentershockSkin(zope.app.rotterdam.Rotterdam):

an IContentItem that works as base interface for all items:

	class IContentItem(Interface):

an ILink that is such an item:

	class ILink(IContentItem):

the ILink has an edit view on the default layer:

	<editform
	        schema="..interfaces.ILink"
        	name="edit.html"
	        permission="zope.ManageContent"
        	menu="zmi_views" title="Edit"
	/>

intended only for use withing the ZMI.

The IContentItem has also registered a view called edit.html on the 
ICentershockSkin:

	<page
        	name="edit.html"
	        for="CS.ContentItem.interfaces.IContentItem"
        	layer="CS.skin.interfaces.ICentershockSkin"
	        permission="CS.Edit"
        	class=".views.Edit" 
	/>

another interface derived from IContentItem is the IContentFolder which has no 
edit view registered for the ZMI (on the default layer).

The goal:

All objects derived from IContentItem should use the edit.html registered for 
IContentItem unless they want to provide their own view. (all request are for 
the ICentershockSkin)

The problem:

This works fine when I call the edit view on a IContentFolder, which has no 
edit view registered on the default layer.
However is does not work for the ILink, the edit view defined by IContentItem 
on the ICentershockSkin is never called.

The cause:

There are 2 edit.html views around for the ILink. 
The first one on the default layer which is also on the ICentershockLayer 
since Rotterdam is derived from the default layer.
The second one comes from the IContentItem from which the ILink is derived.
Obviously always the second one is called.

The solution
1) Rename edit.html to something else to avoid this name clash
2) Do not derive ICentershockSkin from Rotterdam instead only from Interface. 
That caused TraversalErrors here.
3) ???

Is this intended behavior? (that Skin inheritance is over Interface 
intheritance) or is the behavior undefined? Any other ways to solve that 
beside renaming?

Or do I get the entire problem wrong?

Thanks,

Florian