[Zope3-Users] Can interfaces be mutated cleanly?

[Kapil Thangavelu]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:13:58 -0400, Hermann Himmelbauer <dusty at qwer.tk>  
wrote:

> Am Freitag, 13. April 2007 20:33 schrieb Kapil Thangavelu:
>> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:36:07 -0400, Hermann Himmelbauer <dusty at qwer.tk>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 17:22 schrieb Christian Theune:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I didn't find anything in the documentation or google on this:
>> >>
>> >> I want to define an interface like:
>> >>
>> >> class IMySchema(zope.interface.Interface):
>> >>    pass
>> >>
>> >> Later, I want to use ore.alchemist which currently is able to take a
>> >> SQLAlchemy table description and turn it into a new interface/schema.
>> >
>> > Interesting - is ore.alchemist the package developed by Kapil
>> > Thangalevu? If
>> > yes, is it working? I had the impression that the project is  
>> abandoned.
>>
>> it is, and its working, its been in production since inception, has a
>> number of features not present in the other sa zope integrations (schema
>> generation, both from sa and from zope.schema, as well keyreference
>> support, etc). unfortunately suffers a bit in that the formlib  
>> integration
>> is currently targetting zope2/plone, but thats contained in a separate  
>> z2
>> product, as well as my own lack of time to promote it or work on new
>> feature developmen at the moment.
>
> Formlib integration is still something I'm struggling with. I'm currently
> setting up forms (filling with data) manually via SetUpWidgets.  
> Hopefully I
> will be able to break this down on a common denominator, refactor it and
> provide some "ORMFormlib" library which inherits from form.Form, we'll  
> see...
>

there are lots of rabbit holes here i found, esp. as regards object widget  
usage for embedded relations. i got the feeling that i was one of the few  
people using it.. it doesn't have a display mode, and always seeks to  
create a new object instead of updating in place were the primary issues.  
the rest of the widgets work fairly well out of the box.

-kapil