On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 18:22 +0100, Martin Aspeli wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose I have an interface IDerived that's derived from an interface > IBase, overriding a field from it. > > >>> from zope.interface import Interface > >>> from zope.schema import TextLine > > >>> class IBase(Interface): > ... a = TextLine(title=u"a") > ... b = TextLine(title=u"b") > ... c = TextLine(title=u"c") > > >>> class IDerived(IBase): > ... b = TextLine(title=u"b", default=u"B") > > In this case, the field ordering of zope.schema means that I'll get > something like this: > > >>> from zope.schema import getFieldNamesInOrder > >>> getFieldNamesInOrder(IDerived) > ['a', 'c', 'b'] > > I had rather expected the order to be ['a', 'b', 'c']. That is, I would > expect a field that overrides a field from a base interface, to retain > the base interface's order. > > One way to fix this is to do: > > >>> IDerived['b'].order = IBase['b'].order > > Now both will have the same order, of course. > > So, I'm wondering: > > - Is it harmful to have two fields with the same order like this when > they share a name?
"Sharing" a name sounds weird. The attribute get's overriden and the field from the base class isn't considered anymore. > - Should this be the default behavior when deriving interfaces from > one another like this? I'm not sure about that. IIRC the general issue here is that there's a *global* counter involved when determining the order of fields. > If the latter is desirable, I'd be willing to help find a way to > implement it. The field order is just an ever-increasing int that's set > in Field.__init__(), so we'd probably need some after-the-fact fixing up > of fields. Ah. Sounds like my memories are right. > One way to do that would be to fire an event at the end of > InterfaceClass.__init__() and have an event handler to fix the order, > though that'd make zope.interface dependent on zope.event which is > probably not desirable. > > We could simulate the event handler in another way, of course, e.g. by > having the interface initialiser loop over its attributes and see if > they support e.g. an IOrderAware interface and call a method on it, and > have Field implement this. Another way to to that would be to derive the `order` attribute of a using the MRO (is that the mechanism relevant here?) of the class it belongs to find inheritance ancestors and use their `order` attribute instead. That behaviour could also easily be controlled using a flag of the field. Christian -- Christian Theune · [EMAIL PROTECTED] gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 7 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development
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