[Product-Developers] Is there a way to "browse" the ZCA machinery?

[Noe Misael Nieto Arroyo]

2011/4/5 Dylan Jay <djay at pretaweb.com>:
> On 06/04/2011, at 9:05 AM, Ross Patterson wrote:
>
>> Noe Misael Nieto Arroyo <noe at iservices.com.mx>
>> writes:
>>
>>> Sometimes reading code does not give a clear understanding of which
>>> bits of code are being used when working with utilities, components
>>> etc..
>>>
>>> It may be that I still don't quite understand the ZCA Machinery, but,
>>> is there a way to "browse" or graph all the relations between
>>> Utilities, adapters, and so on?
>>
>> At a sprint a while back, I made an attempt to graft zope.app.apidoc
>> onto Plone.  zope.app.apidoc is essentially a ZCA browser.  I got an
>> initial prototype working but there were still many errors.  You can
>> check it out at:
>>
>>   plone-coredev/experimental/apidoc.cfg
>
> +1
>
> I think this could be a huge win if this existed. Currently you have to know
> the code quite well and be very handy with grep to know how to traverse who
> adapts what in a live Plone system. The simpler we can make that for newbies
> to understand the better off we are :)
>

ZODB Explorer (which AFAIK exists) + a ZCA map/explorer would do wonders.


> Good GSoC project maybe for any students out there?
>
>>
>> Ross
>>
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