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The current component registry
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There can be any number of component registries in an application. One of them
is the global component registry, and there is also the concept of a currently
used component registry. Component registries other than the global one are
associated with objects called sites. The ``zope.component.hooks`` module
provides an API to set and access the current site as well as manipulate the
adapter hook associated with it.

As long as we haven't set a site, none is being considered current:

>>> from zope.component.hooks import getSite
>>> print getSite()
None

We can also ask for the current component registry (aka site manager
historically); it will return the global one if no current site is set:

>>> from zope.component.hooks import getSiteManager
>>> getSiteManager()
<BaseGlobalComponents base>

Let's set a site now. A site has to be an object that provides the
``getSiteManager`` method, which is specified by
``zope.component.interfaces.IPossibleSite``:

>>> from zope.component.registry import Components
>>> class Site(object):
...     def __init__(self):
...         self.registry = Components('components')
...     def getSiteManager(self):
...         return self.registry

>>> from zope.component.hooks import setSite
>>> site1 = Site()
>>> setSite(site1)

After this, the newly set site is considered the currently active one:

>>> getSite() is site1
True
>>> getSiteManager() is site1.registry
True

If we set another site, that one will be considered current:

>>> site2 = Site()
>>> site2.registry is not site1.registry
True
>>> setSite(site2)

>>> getSite() is site2
True
>>> getSiteManager() is site2.registry
True

Finally we can unset the site and the global component registry is used again:

>>> setSite()
>>> print getSite()
None
>>> getSiteManager()
<BaseGlobalComponents base>