-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Raphael Ritz wrote: > yuppie wrote: > [..] > >> >>> 7. ... it is placed in there. >>> >>> (Why is this back-and-forth handling needed at all?) >> >> >> >> CMF builds on top of Zope, so CMF's PortalFolder has to return a bare >> and empty object as required by Zope's webdav machinery. >> >> Hence the question is: Why does PortalFolder's PUT_factory use >> invokeFactory, a method that obviously does more than we want? >> >> AFAICS this was the easiest way to implement PUT_factory. TypesTool or >> TypeInfos don't provide a better method.
Zope's factory mechanism doesn't really separate "construction" of an object from seating it into its parent container; we would have needed to replace it to do something less contorted here. > > thanks for that clarification! > > As I see it now, it should be perfectly fine to provide > my custom folder type with its own 'PUT_factory' such > that it does whatever I want for uploads into my > custom folder as long as I return to Zope's NullResource > an object it can live with. Right. > Think I got it now. Finally ... > > Raphael > > PS: Do people think it would be worthwhile documenting > this somehow? Or is this such a rare and special situation > that no-one would be interested in knowing? I think this pattern (uploading textual representations of collections) will be quite common. Consider .ical files, for instance, or an "RSS exploder". Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCpuz3+gerLs4ltQ4RAtyLAJ49qoqAKsaB6Bd3i9xv+pjyDDg1agCfYOVE ReQPBQUJAfzshuVzMAwvlc4= =16Ni -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See http://collector.zope.org/CMF for bug reports and feature requests
