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Layout and page models for Dolmen applications

Project description

dolmen.app.layout provides ready-to-use components to get a fully functional and extensively pluggable User Interface for a Dolmen application (see dolmen.app.site).

About Dolmen

Dolmen is an application development framework based on Grok and ZTK which also provides a CMS (Content Management System) out of the box. Dolmen is being made with four main objectives in mind: easily pluggable, rock solid and fast content type development, readability and speed.

Getting started

We import all the needed dependencies of the tests:

>>> import grok
>>> from dolmen.content import Content
>>> from zope.component import getMultiAdapter
>>> from zope.publisher.browser import TestRequest

We import everything needed for the API verification:

>>> from zope.interface import verify
>>> from dolmen.app.layout import interfaces as API

We define and intanciate a Context object and a request for our tests to come:

>>> class Mammoth(Content):
...    grok.name('Furry Mammoth')

>>> grok.testing.grok_component('mammoth', Mammoth)
True

>>> root = getRootFolder()
>>> root['manfred'] = Mammoth()
>>> manfred = root['manfred']

>>> request = TestRequest()

Global interface

>>> from dolmen.app.layout import master
>>> API.IGlobalUI.extends(API.IContentProviders)
True
>>> API.IGlobalUI.providedBy(master)
True
>>> verify.verifyObject(API.IGlobalUI, master)
True

Content providers

Description

>>> for name, attr in API.IContentProviders.namesAndDescriptions():
...   print "%s: %s" % (name, attr.getDoc())
Footer: Viewlet manager for the bottom part of the body.
AboveBody: Viewlet manager located above the main content.
BelowBody: Viewlet manager located below the main content.
Header: Viewlet manager involved in rendering the HTML head.
Top: Viewlet manager for the top part of the body.
Resources: Viewlet manager including resources.

Layout

Description

>>> interfaceDescription(API.IGlobalUI)
Master: Base layout using all the `IContentProviders` components to build a coherent yet overridable rendering.

Contextual UI

>>> from dolmen.app.layout import viewlets
>>> API.IContextualUI.providedBy(viewlets)
True
>>> verify.verifyObject(API.IContextualUI, viewlets)
True

Description

>>> interfaceDescription(API.IContextualUI)
ContextualActions: Viewlet rendering contextual actions.
FlashMessages: Viewlet displaying site-wide messages.

View components

>>> from dolmen.app.layout import models

Models

Models are base classes to be used in your own classes. dolmen.app.layout provides a collections of ready-to-use models:

>>> API.IModels.providedBy(models)
True
>>> verify.verifyObject(API.IModels, models)
True

Description

>>> interfaceDescription(API.IModels)
Index: Page showing as default view on an object.
Form: Generic page form.
SubForm: Generic sub-form, used in composed forms.
TablePage: Page displaying a table.
Page: Page embedded in a layout.

All the models are megrok.layout.IPage components, allowing them to render inside a layout:

>>> from megrok.layout import IPage

>>> for name in list(API.IModels):
...    model = getattr(models, name)
...    print "%s:\t%s" % (name, IPage.implementedBy(model))
Index:        True
SubForm:      True
TablePage:    True
Page:         True
Form:         True

Default views

dolmen.app.layout registers some views, out-of-the-box, to allow you to interact with your dolmen.content objects and your application:

>>> API.IBaseViews.providedBy(models)
True
>>> verify.verifyObject(API.IBaseViews, models)
True

Description

>>> interfaceDescription(API.IBaseViews)
Edit: Default edit form.
Add: Default add form.
DefaultView: Display form used as index.
Delete: Default delete form.

Query

We can now test to see if our default views are retrieved:

>>> view = getMultiAdapter((manfred, request), name="index")
>>> view
<dolmen.app.layout.models.DefaultView object at ...>

>>> edit = getMultiAdapter((manfred, request), name="edit")
>>> edit
<dolmen.app.layout.models.Edit object at ...>

The add form is a bit different, as it relies on an adding view (see dolmen.forms.crud and dolmen.content for more information):

>>> from dolmen.forms.crud import Adder

>>> adding = Adder(root, request)
>>> adding
<dolmen.forms.crud.addview.Adder object at ...>

>>> adding.traverse("dolmen.app.layout.ftests.Mammoth", None)
<dolmen.app.layout.models.Add object at ...>

Skins

dolmen.app.layout provides a browser layer and a skin, to serve as a base component for your own skins:

>>> from dolmen.app.layout import skin

>>> API.ISkin.providedBy(skin)
True
>>> verify.verifyObject(API.ISkin, skin)
True

Description

>>> interfaceDescription(API.ISkin)
IBaseSkin: Skin providing the IBaseLayer. Can be applied directly or inherited.
IBaseLayer: Layer used to register all the Dolmen centric view components.
Resource: Viewlet component used to include resources

Form compatibility

>>> from megrok.z3cform.base import IFormLayer
>>> skin.IBaseLayer.extends(IFormLayer)
True

Credits

All Dolmen packages are sponsorised by NPAI (http://www.npai.fr)

Changelog

0.3 (2009-12-26)

  • The layout now provides and uses a way to include resources, using megrok.resourceviewlet. Two components have been added for that: ResourcesManager and Resource, respectively a viewletmanager and a viewlet base class.

  • The imports has been modified to avoid using any zope.app package.

0.2.2 (2009-11-03)

  • Now the configure.zcml includes the megrok.z3ctable meta.zcml.

  • Updated dependencies in setup.py

0.2.1 (2009-11-02)

  • Corrected flash messages and redirection in the delete form.

0.2 (2009-11-02)

  • Added Delete form to complete the CRUD actions.

0.1 (2009-11-02)

  • Initial release

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