RE: [SQLObject] SQLObject & Webware FormKit Integration

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:38, Ian Sparks wrote:
> Thanks for the update on this and on the Archetypes & PyProtocols links. They make 
> for interesting reading. Is PyProtocols stable? 

Yes, I think it's pretty stable.  It's a core part of PEAK, and it's
fairly mature.  I'm sure Zope 3 and Twisted's adaptation are fairly
mature too (again because they are fundamental building blocks for those
platforms), but PyProtocols was the only one with decent documentation
(and isolated distribution).

> Adaptation looks very promising. I just wish it didn't require all that extra typing....

It should usually take less typing.  You need only adapt at the last
moment, so you pass objects through based on the expectation they will
later be adapted if necessary.  In FormEncode there's the toPython and
fromPython functions, which actually do the necessary adaptation
themselves then call the appropriate method, so there's really no extra
typing at all.

But I'm still getting used to it as a paradigm -- I think it will be a
very big deal, but I don't think it's widely understood, even by those
(like me) that are using it.  Well, I understand the mechanism, but
that's different from having an intuition on how it should best be
used.  And I don't feel like there's many other languages that provide a
model for how it might work -- it's really very novel, at least from my
experience.

  Ian