InitialContext (
        parent,
        componentName=None,
        **options,
        )

Get an initial naming context, based on parent and keyword options

parent is the component which will be used as the naming context's parent component, to obtain any required configuration data. The componentName argument and options keyword arguments are used to set up the context's name and attributes, just as with a normal PEAK component constructor.

This function implements the binding.IComponentFactory interface, and thus can be used as a factory for a binding.Make() attribute. That is, you can do this:

        myInitCtx = binding.Make(naming.InitialContext)

in a class to create a myInitCtx attribute. This can be useful if you will be using naming functions a lot and would like to hang onto an initial context.

lookup (
        parent,
        name,
        default=NOT_GIVEN,
        **options,
        )

Look up name in the default initial context for parent, w/options

This is just a shortcut for calling:

        naming.InitialContext(parent,**options)[name]

parseURL (
        parent,
        name,
        base=None,
        )

Return a parsed URL for name, based on schemes available to parent

If a parser for the URL scheme isn't available, or name is not a valid URL, exceptions.InvalidName will be raised. Note that name must include a URL scheme, (e.g. "ldap:"), or it will be considered invalid, unless a valid base URL is supplied.

If a base is supplied, and name does not include a scheme, this routine attempts to join name to the base URL, assuming that the parser for the base URL supports this.