Florent Guillaume writes: > Anyway I'd propose the following: we need, in constructInstance, to > somehow pass the portal_type to the object constructor. Unfortunately > this has to be backwards-compatible with all the constructors out there > that don't know about it. I see two possible ugly solutions to do it: > > - do "constructor.__portal_type = portal_type" before calling > constructor(...), and the constructor does something like: > def manage_addFoo(...): > try: > portal_type = manage_addFoo.__portal_type > manage_addFoo.__portal_type = None > except: > portal_type = None Usually, this dynamic modification is not a good idea in a multi-threaded environment.
If "constructor" is (part of) a persistent object, it might work in Zope but may entail unnecessary writes to the ZODB. Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
