[Product-Developers] guestbook behaviour of plone.app.discussion comments

[Guido Stevens]

On 06/12/13 11:39, Torsten Kühnel wrote:
> So i end up with a viewlet which has control over how to render the
> actually discussion list, either discussion style or guestbook style by a
> setting in the document.
>
> The actual decision on what to render is in the new comments.pt which has

You could move that decision into the viewlet's python code. Make the 
.render() call return either the original discussion template via 
super(...).render() or return your custom stuff via 
ViewPageTemplate('your template'). That way you only need your custom 
template code.

> two parts, one a copy from the dicussion comments.pt, and one adapted to
> guestbook style comments with title, img tag and such. This way the
> guestbook can by styled independently from discussions. This looks
> somewhat ugly to me to have that in one pagetemplate, but i don't know
> how to make plone use the orginal template from app.discussion or my one.

See above.

> Then i have a problem with subclassing and decorated functions, as it
> looks the decorator calls the base class and not my derived one, thats
> bad and i am new to decorators, too.

Just set the decorators directly on your custom code.

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