Adapters registered for * (wildcard) do not adapt to base types (str, int etc.)

[Malthe Borch]

Register an adapt like so:

<adapter
   for="*"
   provides="IMyInterface"
   factory=".test" />

def test(obj): pass

Observe that IMyInterface("hello") results in a ComponentLookupError.

[ChrisW (chris-simplistix)]

I can confirm this.

I mailed this zope3-dev mailing about this some time ago:
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2007-January/021576.html

I seem to remember the problem is with the underlying adapter machinery and not the zcml...

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

Now tracked on Github:

  https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.component/issues/4