[Grok-dev] url() method on JSON component

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> 
>> Proposal:
>>
>> Not only the url() method is useful for JSON (and maybe even the REST) 
>> components, but so are the application_url() method and the response 
>> property.
> 
> I think certainly we need them for the REST components too. It's very 
> common one wants to generate a URL when writing a RESTful protocol.
> 
>> The url() method and the response property is defined in 
>> grokcore.view.View. We could split out these into a seperate baseclass. 
>> grokcore.view.View will then inherit from this baseclass.
>>
>> In grok we will define a mixin class derived from this baseclass that 
>> adds the application_url() method. The JSON and REST components can then 
>> inherit from this mixin class.
> 
> Sounds reasonable. We practically have that mixin class already in the 
> form of components.View in grok. The only differences are that it's a 
> mixin and doesn't have the flash() method.

Short (oh no, bikeshed alert..!) naming question:

I'm about to checkin some changes in grokcore.view and grok that will:

1) split off the response property and the url() and the redirect() 
methods from grokcore.view.View into a separate "mixin" class.

2) split off the application_url() method from grok.component.View into 
a separate "mixin" class.

That way JSON and XMLRPC and REST components can inherit from these 
mixins and thus gain all the mentioned methods.

Now, what do I call these mixins?

So far I came up with "ViewCommonMixin" for the first. Ugh. And 
ApplicationCommonMixin. Ugh Ugh. Anyone a better idea?

regards,
jw