Am 19.01.2010 um 21:30 schrieb Stephan Richter: > On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Michael Howitz wrote: >>> My understand of ``getContent`` is to provide a way to give values used >>> by the widgets. By default, since the common use case is to edit / >>> display values from the context, the implementation return the context. >> >> I see it differently. So I'd like to ask what was the original intention of >> ``getContent``? Anyone here to answer this question? > > Originally we only supported the context to be modified. We later found this > far too limiting as a form should be able to modify any sort of objects > within > a context or not caring about the context at all. > > "getContent()" can return anything it wants to as long as a data manager can > map the fields to it. So I think Laurent is correct.
Okay, then I'll revert my changes and make a new release. Yours sincerely, -- Michael Howitz · m...@gocept.com · software developer gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 8 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )
