On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 18:02 +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > Christian Theune wrote: > > we stumbled over an annoyance that took a while to debug: > > > > Writing an ITraversable, we used zope.traversing.api.traverse() in a > > test to verify our code. We registered the ITraversable as an > > (non-multi) adapter and ended up with a working test. > > > > In the actual system, we found that the traversable would not be used. > > After investigation we found a conditional branch in the traverse() > > function which would look for a multi-adapter if a request was around, > > and a regular adapter if not. > > > > We didn't anticipate this difference and it cost us some time, so we > > wonder whether this has to be the way it is, or whether this could be > > changed to behave more obvious and consistent. > > zope.traversing is a mess. > > First of all, its name is quite misleading. It should really be called > 'zope.resolvepath' because it resolves TALES-like object paths. In fact, > it's pretty much only used by the PageTemplate machinery to hook it up > to the TALES engine (with one exception, see below). The request > shouldn't really be necessary for this kind of path resolution, I think. > The conditional multi-adaption sounds like a DWIM feature that I would > consider one of our many mistakes that we made in the beginnings of our > using the Component Architecture. > > There is a process that actually needs the request and this process is > what I call traversal: breaking down a URL and finding a publishable > object. zope.traversing has (almost) nothing to do with it, the real > kind of traversal happens in the publisher and facilitates > IPublishTraverse adapters (rather than ITraversable). The only case when > the two kinds of "traversal" are intermingled is when ++namespaces++ are > involved. Then IPublishTraverse-style traversal uses ITraversable > adapters. This has long been considered a mistake but was never fixed.
URL traversal makes use of zope.traversing though. -- 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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