[Zope-dev] zope.globalrequest?

[Andreas Jung]

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On 17.01.2009 8:39 Uhr, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> 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.

And it similiar accessing the current transaction using

import transaction
tx = transaction.get()

So: +1

Andreas
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