[Twisted-Python] Accessing app-wide data in Woven

[Christopher Armstrong]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:58:14PM -0500, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> 
> On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Donovan Preston wrote:
> 


I'm pretty sure that there was a freak double-thinko by both glyph and
dovonan here: s/resource/request/ for the marked instances:

> >This is precisely why I made the resource Componentized. It's far more 
                                    ^^^^^^^^ make that request
> >convenient and less error-prone to do this than to attempt to make 
> >sure that a reference to your Configuration object is passed to every 
> >single child in your system.
> 
> While I agree that it's better to use a component on the resource than 
                                                           ^^^^^^^^ here too
> to randomly set a junk attribute, I'd also like to caution against 
> using this too much.  Unless you're doing something like computing 
> relative links, it's a lot safer and less surprising to explicitly pass 
> references around in your application.  This might involve more typing, 
> but trying to "throw" objects to other parts of your application, using 
> the registry, the Componentized request, or the session makes it 
> dependent upon an execution context.  That context is often present, 
> but it's an undeclared requirement, so it can be a very surprising 
> impediment to using a particular kind of resource from some other code 
> that does a related but not identical thing.

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