[Plone-conference] Porting Products to Plone 5: reference from custom AT Type to Document breaks

[Kees Hink]

Thanks David.

On 10/08/2013 10:27 PM, David Glick (Plone) wrote:
> On 10/5/13 2:48 PM, Kees Hink wrote:
>> Products.Archetypes' ReferenceEngine.py has a _uidFor() method that,
>> when passed a string, tries to get the UID from the uid_catalog. [1]
>>
>> Problem: In Plone 5, when creating a reference from a custom content
>> type object to a Document, the target UID isn't in uid_catalog. It's
>> in portal_catalog. The custom types' UIDs are in uid_catalog. This
>> surfaced while trying out Products.Doormat on Plone 5 [2]
>>
>> Links between default Plone content type objects work fine.
>>
>> What did i miss?
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/plone/Products.Archetypes/blob/master/Products/Archetypes/ReferenceEngine.py#L527
>>
>>
>> [2] https://github.com/collective/Products.Doormat/tree/plone5
>>
> I see that Doormat uses Archetypes content. To be referenceable from
> Archetypes content, Dexterity content must have the referenceable
> behavior from plone.app.referenceablebehavior enabled. But we don't want
> Plone 5 to depend on Archetypes, so the types in plone.app.contenttypes
> do not use this behavior out of the box.  If you don't convert Doormat
> to be Dexterity-based and you require that Dexterity content items be
> referenceable from your custom content types, I suppose you'll need to
> make sure that you enable this behavior for the core content types when
> the product is installed.

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