On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 14:25 -0800, Mike Orr wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 12:12 -0800, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > >> great. that looks good. > >> > >> I need to read up more on views vs handlers. > >> > >> since i use "render_to_response" for most things, I should have an > >> easy transition > > > > Handlers are views too. So this works there as well, if you'd rather > > continue using those. > > Chris, Blaise, something to think about for the documentation: > > People are getting the idea that handlers are some big separate thing; > i.e., more than they are. I think this is due to how pyramid_handlers > was originally marketed. Part of it I think was an expectation that > ex-Pylons developers wouldn't accept the standard Pyramid API, whereas > actual experience has shown that they're more accepting of it than we > thought. > > So in my Pyramid/Pylons guide (and in the Akhet manual) I've tried to > emphasize that a handler is just another name for a view class (i.e., > a class containing view methods). What pyramid_handlers really gives > you is config.add_handler() and @action. It doesn't give you a base > class: that's an Akhet invention (to parallel Pylons' Base > controller). So I think that where the docs talk about view classes, > they should mention that handler is a common term for a view class, > but it means nothing more than that, and that pyramid_handlers is just > one way of managing them.
I'd hope it'd be enough to put somewhere in the handlers docs that handlers are just special class-based views. I'm not apt to introduce the term "handlers" into the main Pyramid docs to describe class-based views, because then we don't have a name for the bundle of logic that we currently call handlers. - C > > -- > Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
