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Registration Status Property
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The registratio status property is a descriptor used to implement the
`IRegistration`' interface's `status` property.

The property accepts two possible values: `ActiveStatus` and
`InactiveStatus`. When the registration is active, then the registration is
also activated in the registry.

  >>> from zope.app.component.interfaces.registration import ActiveStatus
  >>> from zope.app.component.interfaces.registration import InactiveStatus

When setting the `status` property to `ActiveStatus`, then the registration
should be added to the nearest matching registry. Here, the registration's
`getRegistry()` method is used to determine the registry. On the same token,
if the value is set to `InactiveStatus` the registration should be removed
from the registry.

To demonstrate this functionality, we first have to create a stub registry

  >>> class Registry(object):
  ...     registrations = []
  ...     def register(self, registration):
  ...         self.registrations.append(registration)
  ...
  ...     def unregister(self, registration):
  ...         del self.registrations[self.registrations.index(registration)]
  ...
  ...     def registered(self, registration):
  ...         return registration in self.registrations
  
  >>> registry = Registry()

and a simple registration object

  >>> from zope.app.component.registration import RegistrationStatusProperty
  >>> class Registration(object):
  ...     status = RegistrationStatusProperty()
  ...
  ...     def __init__(self, registry):
  ...         self.registry = registry
  ...
  ...     def getRegistry(self):
  ...         return self.registry

Note that here only the `getRegistry()` is part of the registration API.

Now that we have a registry and a registration class, let's create a
registration:

  >>> reg = Registration(registry)

At the beginning the registration is inactive:

  >>> reg.status
  u'Inactive'
  >>> reg.status is InactiveStatus
  True
  >>> reg in registry.registrations
  False

Once we activate the registration, it appears in the registry:

  >>> reg.status = ActiveStatus
  >>> reg.status
  u'Active'
  >>> reg.status is ActiveStatus
  True
  >>> reg in registry.registrations
  True

Now, once we deactivate the registration, it is not available in the registry
anymore:

  >>> reg.status = InactiveStatus
  >>> reg.status
  u'Inactive'
  >>> reg.status is InactiveStatus
  True
  >>> reg in registry.registrations
  False


Registration Events
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When a registration is activated or deactivated, an
`RegistrationActivatedEvent` or `RegistrationDeactivatedEvent` is created,
respectively. Listening to these events can be useful for cases where you want
to change the component based on registration status.

To catch the events, we have to register a subscriber with the event
framework:

  >>> events = []
  >>> def subscriber(event):
  ...     global events
  ...     events.append(event)

  >>> import zope.event
  >>> zope.event.subscribers.append(subscriber)

Now we switch our registration to active:

  >>> reg.status = ActiveStatus
  >>> event = events.pop()
  >>> event.__class__
  <class 'zope.app.component.registration.RegistrationActivatedEvent'>
  >>> event.object is reg
  True

and deactivate it again:

  >>> reg.status = InactiveStatus
  >>> events.pop().__class__
  <class 'zope.app.component.registration.RegistrationDeactivatedEvent'>
  >>> event.object is reg
  True

Now make sure that we remove the subscriber again:

  >>> del zope.event.subscribers[zope.event.subscribers.index(subscriber)]
