getMultiAdapter() shortcut in Zope 3 / Plone

Question

You can do IMyInterface(context) looks-ups with Zope 3 and it somehow automatically maps to getAdapter().

However does there exist multi-adapter equivalent. Something like:

  portal_state = IPortalState((self.context, self.request))

would map to

  portal_state = getMultiAdapter((self.context, self.request), interface=IPortalState)

Answer 1

There isn't such a short-cut; your first example is adapting a tuple (a general case that needs to be supported too).

This has been discussed numerous times on the lists, but I cannot recall the ins and outs of the details. You could start with the following thread if you have to know: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/zope/message/185605

Answer 2

No, there's no shorthand for multi-adapter lookup. The reason given in the discussion toward the end of http://groups.google.com/group/zope-core-dev/browse_thread/thread/156acde2c8e799c7/63ca158f076ed010?pli=1 is that some users of zope.interface rely on being able to do single adaptation of tuples.