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authorChris McDonough <chrism@agendaless.com>2009-06-24 19:41:09 +0000
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- ``repoze.bfg`` no longer relies on the Routes package to interpret
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returns responses to the WSGI server on behalf of your
:mod:`repoze.bfg` application.
URL dispatch
+
An alternative to graph traversal as a mechanism for locating a
- :term:`context` for a :term:`view`. When you use :term:`Routes`
+ :term:`context` for a :term:`view`. When you use a :term:`route`
in your :mod:`repoze.bfg` application via a ``<route>``
declaration in ZCML, you are using URL dispatch. See the
:ref:`urldispatch_chapter` for more information.
+
Context
An object in the system that is found during :term:`traversal` or
:term:`URL dispatch` based on URL data; if it's found via
@@ -251,14 +253,13 @@ Glossary
Routes
A `system by Ben Bangert <http://routes.groovie.org/>`_ which
parses URLs and compares them against a number of user defined
- mappings. In terms of :mod:`repoze.bfg`, a Route can supplant
- graph traversal when deciding which *view* should be called. See
- :ref:`urldispatch_chapter` for more information about Routes integration
- in :mod:`repoze.bfg`.
+ mappings. The URL pattern matching syntax in :mod:`repoze.bfg` is
+ inspired by the Routes syntax (which was inspired by Ruby On
+ Rails pattern syntax).
Route
- A single pattern matched by the :term:`Routes` subsystem, which
- generally resolves to a :term:`root factory` (and then ultimately
- a :term:`view`). See also :term:`url dispatch`.
+ A single pattern matched by the :term:`url dispatch` subsystem,
+ which generally resolves to a :term:`root factory` (and then
+ ultimately a :term:`view`). See also :term:`url dispatch`.
ZCML
`Zope Configuration Markup Language
<http://www.muthukadan.net/docs/zca.html#zcml>`_, the XML dialect