Re: improving the utility and adapter lookup APIs
Martijn Faassen <[email protected]>
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Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Tres Seaver <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hmm, I may be missing something here, but if Foo implements IFoo, then >> the getAdapter lookup for it will short circuit, leading you into >> infinite recursion. Except that it doesn't: > > [snip example] > >> which strikes me as wildly disjoint: the IFoo behavior is "expected" >> (short-circuit the lookup if the object already provides the interface), >> while the getAdapter behavior is a puzzlement. > > This has been mentioned numerous times as one of those odd and > unexpected differences between the IFoo vs. get/queryAdapter semantic. > IIRC the only use-case I ever heard of for the getAdapter semantic, > was the possibility to override the behavior promised by the interface > with a different adapter without touching the class that implements > the interface directly. > > I think changing this falls into the category of: Small backwards > incompatibly that seem worthwhile to make the behavior consistent and > expected. I think if we deprecate the getAdapter API entirely by making it unnecessary, we'd not need to change it either. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] 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 )