[Zope3-dev] ZCML-Directive for DirectoryResource factories?

[Christian Zagrodnick]

Hoi,

I was just playing with z3c.zrtresource a bit and it seems to be quite
a nice approach to (for instance) set the server URL in javascript.

The only thing is, no I'm not going to register every file in ZCML. I
want to use the zc.resourcelibrary.

The follwoing makes it possible, but it's not too nice to have that
somewhere in the code:

(zope.app.publisher.browser.directoryresource.
DirectoryResource.resource_factories['.js']) = (
z3c.zrtresource.zrtresource.ZRTFileResourceFactory)

I'd rather have a ZCML-directive to do that. Would that fit into
zope.app.publisher?

[Fred Drake]

Meant to send this to the list...

Post by Christian Zagrodnick
The only thing is, no I'm not going to register every file in ZCML. I
want to use the zc.resourcelibrary.
The follwoing makes it possible, but it's not too nice to have that
(zope.app.publisher.browser.directoryresource.
DirectoryResource.resource_factories['.js']) = (
z3c.zrtresource.zrtresource.ZRTFileResourceFactory)
I'd rather have a ZCML-directive to do that. Would that fit into
zope.app.publisher?

I think the right approach would be to make the new directive a
sub-directive of the resourcelibrary and/or the resourcedirectory
directive. Then there could be a separate extension -> type map for
each directory of resources. An alternative would be to allow the
library or directory directive to refer to a map defined elsewhere
(say, in Python), making it easier to re-use maps.

This makes a lot of sense to me, since the provider of each pile of
resources knows what they put in it and what the processing
requirements are. A global map seems like a bad idea here.


-Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com>
"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller

[Christian Zagrodnick]

Post by Fred Drake
Meant to send this to the list...

Post by Christian Zagrodnick
The only thing is, no I'm not going to register every file in ZCML. I
want to use the zc.resourcelibrary.
The follwoing makes it possible, but it's not too nice to have that
(zope.app.publisher.browser.directoryresource.
DirectoryResource.resource_factories['.js']) = (
z3c.zrtresource.zrtresource.ZRTFileResourceFactory)
I'd rather have a ZCML-directive to do that. Would that fit into
zope.app.publisher?

I think the right approach would be to make the new directive a
sub-directive of the resourcelibrary and/or the resourcedirectory
directive. Then there could be a separate extension -> type map for
each directory of resources. An alternative would be to allow the
library or directory directive to refer to a map defined elsewhere
(say, in Python), making it easier to re-use maps.
This makes a lot of sense to me, since the provider of each pile of
resources knows what they put in it and what the processing
requirements are. A global map seems like a bad idea here.

You are right, a local map would be much better.

I basically came up with the global one, because its already there. But
local sounds good.