I spent some time today trying to figure out why my views where unable
to find a renderer even though it was registered. It turns out that I
was calling config.scan() before doing config.add_renderer(). The
resulting behaviour is a bit misleading: when rendering a view
RendererHelper.renderer() will raise a ValueError indicating that no
renderer factory was registered, even though a queryUtility would
happily return the right factory. I see two ways to improve this:
1. update RendererHelper.__init__() to check if the result of
queryUtility(IRendererFactory, name=renderer_type) is None, and if
so raise an exception. Something like raise ProgrammingError("Trying
to use a renderer %s which is not (yet) registered") would have
helped me track this down a lot faster.
2. update RendererHelper.renderer() to try the queryUtility again if
self.factory is None, which prevents the need for registering
renderers before setting up the views.
Wichert.
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