[Zope-CMF] Proposal: MemberDataFactory

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On Mar 18, 2009, at 16:12 , Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Miles wrote:
>> We have quite a lot of copy-and-paste code here in order to support
>> using a custom MemberData class for members in particular sites.
>>
>> The reason for this is that the only way to use a different  
>> MemberData
>> class is to provide a custom wrapUser method.
>>
>> I'd like to propose that this is changed to use a factory registered
>> through the CA to create new MemberData objects, in order that this  
>> is
>> pluggable without requiring a custom MemberDataTool.
>
> Can you explain the use case? I suspect you can also solve this with  
> PAS
> and a custom user factory PAS plugin.

One use case I have: I need a different Member Data object (and thus  
the whole overridden tool) for Products.CMFLDAP in order to have  
custom overridden methods on those MemberData objects that call non- 
standard methods on the user folder.

jens


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