Dolmen menus composer
Project description
dolmen.menu aims to provide the most flexible and explicit way to create and manage menus and their entries with Grok.
You have to know that…
dolmen.menu only works on Python 2.6.
dolmen.menu does not support sub-menus, out of the box. The implementation is left to your discretion.
Components
dolmen.menu provides two components:
Menu : the menu implementation is based on the zope “content provider” notion and is using the grokcore.viewlet package.
Entry: a menu item is called an entry. It’s a multi adapter that is registered for a Menu component.
Examples
A menu component:
>>> from dolmen import menu >>> class MyMenu(menu.Menu): ... menu.title('My nice menu')
A menu entry:
>>> class MyMenuEntry(menu.Entry): ... menu.order(1) ... menu.name('a_direct_entry') ... menu.title('My Entry') ... menu.menu(MyMenu)
Registration
In order to use base Grok component as menu entries, we get two registration ways.
class decorator
A class decorator allows you to decorate any class, in order to register it as a menu entry:
>>> import grokcore.view >>> @menu.menuentry(MyMenu) ... class TestEntry(grokcore.view.View): ... def render(self): ... return u"A simple entry"
Module level martian directive
A martian directive allows you register classes you can’t decorate (from a foreign package, for instance), explicitly:
>>> class SomeView(grokcore.view.View): ... def render(self): ... return u"I'm a view and I want to be a menu entry" >>> menu.global_menuentry(SomeView, MyMenu, order=2)
Changes
0.5 (2011-01-31)
dolmen.menu now works on the latest martian. The treatment of the decorator has been deferred by the use of a module annotation. The registration is now done by a global grokker.
0.4 (2010-12-24)
It is now possible to define a menu context, that is different of the rendering context. This allow delegated rendering, such as Root menus or other object-specific menus.
0.3 (2010-06-04)
Corrected a bug where ‘zope.Public’ was evaluated as a “normal” permission. Now, the manager converts the permission into a CheckerPublic marker.
the filter method is now a generator.
0.2 (2010-03-05)
Changed the way to fetch the menu CSS id.
0.1 (2010-03-03)
Initial release.
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