[Web-SIG] Random thoughts

[John J Lee]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Ian Bicking wrote:
[...]
> Seems a little long-winded.  How about request.formdata, .postdata,
> .querydata, where .formdata is postdata+querydata?  (In practice most
> people use the combined version)

+1


> They could be proper dictionary-like objects.  Though if they aren't
> real dictionaries, I suppose we would have:
>
> request.fields, request.fields.post, request.fields.query, each of
> which implements a dictionary interface.
[...]

Why does the dictionary-ness of these objects force moving them from
attributes of request into attributes of a fields object?  I don't like
__getitem__, but I like breaking the "law of demeter" less.  If people
prefer to avoid __getitem__, they could just be methods: .formdata(),
.querydata(), .postdata() (or use the new descriptor stuff?  I know
nothing about that...).


John