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    [entity] introduce a new 'adapters' registry · 9ab2b4c74baf
    Sylvain Thénault authored
    This changeset introduces the notion in adapters (as in Zope Component Architecture)
    in a cubicweb way, eg using a specific registry of appobjects.
    
    This allows nicer code structure, by avoid clutering entity classes and moving
    code usually specific to a place of the ui (or something else) together with the
    code that use the interface.
    
    We don't use actual interface anymore, they are implied by adapters (which
    may be abstract), whose reg id is an interface name.
    
    Appobjects that used to 'implements(IFace)' should now be rewritten by:
    
    * coding an IFaceAdapter(EntityAdapter) defining (implementing if desired)
      the interface, usually with __regid__ = 'IFace'
    
    * use "adaptable('IFace')" as selector instead
    
    Also, the implements_adapter_compat decorator eases backward compatibility
    with adapter's methods that may still be found on entities implementing
    the interface.
    
    Notice that unlike ZCA, we don't support automatic adapters chain (yagni?).
    
    All interfaces defined in cubicweb have been turned into adapters, also
    some new ones have been introduced to cleanup Entity / AnyEntity classes
    namespace. At the end, the pluggable mixins mecanism should disappear in
    favor of adapters as well.
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