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[Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 10:05 +0200, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> In case you haven't seen http://apidoc.zope.org I strongly suggest you
> check it out -- it's very convenient for us using zope3/ztk.  
> 
> I've been trying to get that to work on Launchpad (at
> apidoc.launchpad.dev) so that we can easily find out how to use zcml
> declarations, what classes implement a given interface, what are the
> pages registered for that interface and so on. Most things are working
> (except for the Books section, which we don't care about anyway), but
> there are still a few hacks that need to be tweaked before they can be
> accepted into mainline, and I'm at yet another sprint this week and on
> vacation after that so I won't have time to work on it anytime soon. If
> you are interested in having apidoc working for Launchpad, I'd really
> appreciate your help finishing up. My branch is at
> lp:~salgado/launchpad/apidoc and here's a list of the things that need
> fixing:
> 
>  1. Move changes done to site.py into 
>     configs/development/apidoc-configure-normal.zcml.OFF
> 
>  2. lib/canonical/launchpad/webapp/authentication.py has a
>     non-persistent IAnnotations adapter for our principals which might
>     be acceptable into mainline as the lack of persistence only means
>     we don't save user preferences on apidoc.lp.dev
> 
>  3. lib/canonical/launchpad/webapp/authorization.py is the ugliest hack
>     but Gary said he'd be happy if it would special case just the
>     specific object type that causes us problems (LocationProxy) instead
>     of catching TypeErrors for everything.

I wrote this in a rush and forgot about the real issues:

  4. The newly added apidoc.txt test fails and I have no idea why
because it just loads apidoc.lp.dev, which works fine when not running
the tests

  5. One of the new eggs required to make zope.app.apidoc work caused
our +basiclogin page to stop working -- it OOPSes.  I don't have the
traceback handy, but it's a failure to adapt the principal into
something.


-- 
Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>

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