PlonePAS and MutablePropertySheet

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Miles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on incorporating some additions to the SQLPASPlugin that 
> we're using here, which allow it to work with plain PAS, and also 
> provide generic setup support etc...
> 
> There's one item that is preventing this from working "as planned": the 
> way the PropertyProvider plugin returns a property sheet rather than 
> just a dict of data (plain PAS explicitly requires the plugin to return 
> a dict).

Why is that? That sounds like a PAS bug. 

> I think this can be avoided if the sheet type is determined in the 
> userfactory plugin (PlonePAS/plugins/ufactory.py) rather than directly 
> in the plugin.

That is certainly the wrong approach. User factories do not know
anything about properties and should not know anything about them.

Wichert.

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