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| author | Alexandre Bourget <alexandre.bourget@savoirfairelinux.com> | 2011-03-24 12:07:09 -0400 |
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| committer | Alexandre Bourget <alexandre.bourget@savoirfairelinux.com> | 2011-03-24 12:07:09 -0400 |
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diff --git a/docs/narr/resourcelocation.rst b/docs/narr/resourcelocation.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 8ddc890ed..000000000 --- a/docs/narr/resourcelocation.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,103 +0,0 @@ -.. index:: - single: resource location - -.. _resourcelocation_chapter: - -Resource Location and View Lookup ---------------------------------- - -:app:`Pyramid` uses two separate but cooperating subsystems to find and -invoke :term:`view callable` code written by the application developer: -:term:`resource location` and :term:`view lookup`. - -- First, a :app:`Pyramid` :term:`resource location` subsystem is given a - :term:`request`; it is responsible for finding a :term:`resource` object - based on information present in the request. When a resource is found via - resource location, it becomes known as the :term:`context`. - -- Next, using the context resource found by :term:`resource location` and the - :term:`request`, :term:`view lookup` is then responsible for finding and - invoking a :term:`view callable`. A view callable is a specific bit of - code written and registered by the application developer which receives the - :term:`request` and which returns a :term:`response`. - -These two subsystems are used by :app:`Pyramid` serially: first, a -:term:`resource location` subsystem does its job. Then the result of -resource location is passed to the :term:`view lookup` subsystem. The view -lookup system finds a :term:`view callable` written by an application -developer, and invokes it. A view callable returns a :term:`response`. The -response is returned to the requesting user. - -There are two separate :term:`resource location` subsystems in -:app:`Pyramid`: :term:`traversal` and :term:`URL dispatch`. They can be used -separately or they can be combined. Three chapters which follow describe -:term:`resource location`: :ref:`traversal_chapter`, -:ref:`urldispatch_chapter` and :ref:`hybrid_chapter`. - -There is only one :term:`view lookup` subsystem present in :app:`Pyramid`. -Where appropriate, we will describe how view lookup interacts with context -finding. One chapter which follows describes :term:`view lookup`: -:ref:`views_chapter`. - -Should I Use Traversal or URL Dispatch for Resource Location? -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -When you use :app:`Pyramid`, you have a choice about how you'd like to -resolve URLs to code: you can use either :term:`traversal` or :term:`URL -dispatch`. The choice to use traversal vs. URL dispatch is largely -"religious". Since :app:`Pyramid` provides support for both approaches, you -can use either exclusively or combine them as you see fit. - -:term:`URL dispatch` is very straightforward. When you limit your -application to using URL dispatch, you know every URL that your application -might generate or respond to, all the URL matching elements are listed in a -single place, and you needn't think about :term:`resource location` or -:term:`view lookup` at all. - -URL dispatch can easily handle URLs such as -``http://example.com/members/Chris``, where it's assumed that each item -"below" ``members`` in the URL represents a single member in some system. -You just match everything "below" ``members`` to a particular :term:`view -callable`, e.g. ``/members/{memberid}``. - -However, URL dispatch is not very convenient if you'd like your URLs to -represent an arbitrary-depth hierarchy. For example, if you need to infer -the difference between sets of URLs such as these, where the ``document`` in -the first URL represents a PDF document, and ``/stuff/page`` in the second -represents an OpenOffice document in a "stuff" folder. - -.. code-block:: text - - http://example.com/members/Chris/document - http://example.com/members/Chris/stuff/page - -It takes more pattern matching assertions to be able to make hierarchies work -in URL-dispatch based systems, and some assertions just aren't possible. -URL-dispatch based systems just don't deal very well with URLs that represent -arbitrary-depth hierarchies. - -:term:`URL dispatch` tends to collapse the two steps of :term:`resource -location` and :term:`view lookup` into a single step. Thus, a URL can map -*directly* to a view callable. This makes URL dispatch easier to understand -than traversal, because traversal makes you understand how :term:`resource -location` works. But explicitly locating a resource provides extra -flexibility. For example, it makes it possible to protect your application -with declarative context-sensitive instance-level :term:`authorization`. - -Unlike URL dispatch, :term:`traversal` works well for URLs that represent -arbitrary-depth hierarchies. Since the path segments that compose a URL are -addressed separately, it becomes very easy to form URLs that represent -arbitrary depth hierarchies in a system that uses traversal. When you're -willing to treat your application resources as a tree that can be traversed, -it also becomes easy to provide "instance-level security": you just attach an -:term:`ACL` security declaration to each resource in the tree. This is not -nearly as easy to do when using URL dispatch. - -Traversal probably just doesn't make any sense when you possess completely -"square" data stored in a relational database because it requires the -construction and maintenance of a resource tree and requires that the -developer think about mapping URLs to code in terms of traversing that tree. - -We'll examine both :term:`URL dispatch` and :term:`traversal` in the next two -chapters. - |
