Re: Re: skin support for xmlrpc

hi christian,

On 24.08.2007, at 15:12, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Friday 24 August 2007 02:37, Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
>> The term "skin" is probably missleading but was taken to keep it
>> simple. It's more an "api-set".
>
> Then don't use it! Misusing a concept can lead to a lot of confusion.

it's misleading for me as well :)

>> Usecase: Different API on the same server
>>
>> We have a lot XML-RPC methods defined for ISite which get all their
>> data in. This is quite unlike one would register XML-RPC mehtods
>> normally, but the clients using the interface are not sophisticated
>> enough.
>>
>> Now there are different "systems" talking with Zope. The systems have
>> some things in common, some not. One systems calls a method, say
>> list_foo anonymous, while another needs to authenticate for list_foo.
>>
>> The idea is now to register list_foo for different
>> layers/skins/api-sets. This could also be achieved by creating dummy
>> model-objects and/or traversers, but would be much less  
>> understandable.
>>
>> What essentially happens is that the views are registered for  
>> different
>> request types.
>
> You can solve this issue easily using pluggable traversers. There is
> absolutely no need to use skins here. For example, a traverser  
> plugin can
> simply mark the request with a directly provided interface and  
> return the
> same object. This would work very much like a skin without mis- 
> using the
> concept.

for me xmlrpc is remote procedure call. a rpc has a signature and  
always the same result. and as stephan said - traversers should help  
here.

>
>> Usecase: Authenticate Users depending on the skin
>>
>> As i said before there are different systems which need to
>> authenticate. The systems have disjunctive sets of users with
>> potentially the same login names. There needs to be a way to
>> authenticate without guessing which set of users we're talking about.
>>
>> This could also be achieved by a custom traverser or namespace.
>
> Then use a custom traverser, please!? :-)

+1

>> It probably would not be much of a problem to remove the skin things
>> again and put it directly to the project or another third-party
>> component. But it doesn't feel right.
>
> Please revert the skin support again. This is a pretty major change  
> and I gave
> a -1 on the original discussion already. There was never a full  
> proposal
> either.

-1 from here as well.

jodok

>
> Regards,
> Stephan
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