Hanno Schlichting wrote at 2009-1-16 10:14 +0100: >Christian Theune wrote: >> I noticed 'zope.globalrequest' on the PyPI RSS feed today and wonder >> about it. IMHO this implements an anti-pattern in an official way >> without a warning that this needs to be handled with care. > >The discussion for this happened on the plone-dev mailing list. The >reasoning for the functionality is to provide a clean way to get to the >request, without relying on Acquisition. Storing the request in a thread >local is similar to the way other web-frameworks handle this.
In addition, this is how the global Zope "site" is handled. It is good to be able to access both "site" and "request" in a standard way. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
