[Product-Developers] When to use <five:registerClass /> ?

Noe Misael Nieto Arroyo noe at iservices.com.mx
Tue Apr 5 20:57:09 UTC 2011


Thanks.

2011/4/5 Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists at gmail.com>:
> On 5 April 2011 19:25, Noe Misael Nieto Arroyo <noe at iservices.com.mx> wrote:
>> I'm doing some work with content-types and I see that the ZCML used to
>> declare classes sometimes use <five:registerClass /> and sometimes it
>> doesn't.
>>
>> After looking at Martin Aspelli's "Professional Plone Development"
>> book's examples, chapter 10, I find that the optilus.cinemacontent
>> package does not use it.
>>
>> So Iam a bit confused.
>>
>> When shoud I use the <five:registerClass />  directive?
>
> It does the same thing as InitializeClass(), i.e. add security
> declarations, a meta type etc to classes.
>
> For Archetypes, it's taken care of you by registerType(), so you don't
> need it. Dexterity does it for you as well. You may need it in some
> cases, like when building PAS plugins or persistent tools.
>
> Martin
>



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