Hey, Tres Seaver wrote: [snip] > Any code today which wants a utility is calling 'getUtilty' (if it > *knows* the utility must be registered) or 'queryUtility' (if it thinks > it might not be). Less facetiously than my first challenge: please > point to actual code in the wild which looks like:: > > try: > foo = getUtilty(IFoo, name='bar') > except ComponentLookupError: > # do something > > instead of:: > > foo = queryUtility(IFoo, name='bar') > if foo is None: > # do something > > I will argue that any code doing the first, outside of maybe tests of > the ZCA itself is plain broken.
I have code like that in the wild - I have no real reason why I didn't queryUtility, but I didn't think it mattered. Why is it plain broken? Isn't getUtility supported to raise ComponentLookupError if it cannot find the required utility? Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
