From 0d1c2ecaf6080761d6d91c3e6ef656d63e4dbcd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Paul Smets <jp@nexedi.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:18:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Initial upload

git-svn-id: https://svn.erp5.org/repos/public/erp5/trunk@29827 20353a03-c40f-0410-a6d1-a30d3c3de9de
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 product/ERP5/interfaces/granulatable.py | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 product/ERP5/interfaces/granulatable.py

diff --git a/product/ERP5/interfaces/granulatable.py b/product/ERP5/interfaces/granulatable.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+##############################################################################
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nexedi SA and Contributors. All Rights Reserved.
+#                    Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes <jp@nexedi.com>
+#
+# WARNING: This program as such is intended to be used by professional
+# programmers who take the whole responsability of assessing all potential
+# consequences resulting from its eventual inadequacies and bugs
+# End users who are looking for a ready-to-use solution with commercial
+# garantees and support are strongly adviced to contract a Free Software
+# Service Company
+#
+# This program is Free Software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+from zope.interface import Interface
+
+class IGranulatable(Interface):
+  """
+  Convertable interface specification
+
+  Documents which implement IGranulatable can be analysed
+  and granulated into smaller sub documents. Reversely,
+  content can be updated from sub content.
+  """
+
+  def granulateContent():
+    """
+    Populates the current document with subcontent based on the
+    document content. This can be used for example to transform the
+    whole XML of an RSS feed into a collection of subcontents,
+    one per news item.
+
+    NOTE: this method used to be called populateContent
+    """
+
+  def assembleContent():
+    """
+    Updated the current document by assembling subcontent
+    and generate a new document. It is the reverse method
+    of IGranulatable.granulateContent
+    """
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