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zc.buildout recipes for writing ZCML

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Supported options

The recipe supports installing multiple different sets of ZCML slugs in multiple different output directories. These sets are specified in grouped options, where X is the common prefix shared by all options in the group.

X_zcml

A list of zcml entires. Required.

format:

zcml := package ":" filename
package := dottedname | dottedname "-" ( include_name )

The filename is the fully specified file, such as browser.zcml, whereas the include_name is a relative portion mising the .zcml extension, defaulting to configure (it was originally validated against a strict list of possibilities, but that is no longer the case). If the filename is not given, the include_name is used.

X_location

A directory name relative to the etc-directory to put the generated slugs in. Required.

X_file

A convenient shortuct if all or most of the zcml entries would have the same include_name. Set this option to make it the default instead of configure. Optional.

X_features

If this optional directive is provided, it is a space and newline separated list of ZCML features that should be provided when the output directory is processed. These are provided in the first file.

There are two global options:

deployment

The name of a zc.recipe.deployment part containing the directory definitions. We will use the etc-directory defined in this part as the base for locations.

etc-directory

If you do not specify a deployment, then this value will be used as the etc-directory.

Example usage

We’ll start by creating a buildout that uses the recipe. We will list three packages that we’d like to create slugs for (a * is ignored for backwards compatibility), along with a set of features we want to be provided:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = test1
...
... [test1]
... recipe = nti.recipes.zcml
... etc-directory = ${buildout:directory}/zope/etc
... package_location = package-includes
... package_features = foo bar
...                    baz
... package_zcml =
...     *
...     my.package
...     somefile:my.otherpackage
...     my.thirdpackage-meta
... """)

Running the buildout gives us:

>>> print(system(buildout))
Installing test1.
While:
  Installing test1.
Error: The parents of '/.../sample-buildout/zope/etc/package-includes' do not exist

We need to have a valid etc directory. Let’s create one:

>>> mkdir("zope")
>>> mkdir("zope", "etc")
>>> print(system(buildout))
Installing test1.

We now have a package include directory:

>>> ls("zope", "etc")
d  package-includes

It does contain ZCML slugs:

>>> ls("zope", "etc", "package-includes")
-  000-features.zcml
-  001-my.package-configure.zcml
-  002-somefile-configure.zcml
-  003-my.thirdpackage-meta.zcml

These files contain the usual stuff:

>>> cat("zope", "etc", "package-includes", "000-features.zcml")
<configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope" xmlns:meta="http://namespaces.zope.org/meta">
    <meta:provides feature="foo" />
    <meta:provides feature="bar" />
    <meta:provides feature="baz" />
</configure>
>>> cat("zope", "etc", "package-includes", "001-my.package-configure.zcml")
<include package="my.package" file="configure.zcml" />
>>> cat("zope", "etc", "package-includes", "002-somefile-configure.zcml")
<include package="somefile" file="my.otherpackage" />
>>> cat("zope", "etc", "package-includes", "003-my.thirdpackage-meta.zcml")
<include package="my.thirdpackage" file="meta.zcml" />

Error and Corner Cases

Now we will discuss how various corner cases and errors are handled.

No ZCML and No Features

If you do not specify any ZCML or features, no files are generated (note that we’re using a new part name, causing the old part to be uninstalled):

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = zcml
...
... [zcml]
... recipe = nti.recipes.zcml
... etc-directory = ${buildout:directory}/zope/etc
... package_location = empty-includes
... package_features =
... package_zcml =
... """)

>>> print(system(buildout))
Uninstalling test1.
Installing zcml.
<BLANKLINE>

No directory is created for this part, and when the old part was uninstalled, it left behind its directory, but no files:

>>> ls("zope", "etc")
d  package-includes

>>> ls("zope", "etc", "package-includes")

Using a Deployment Reference

As mentioned above, we can use a zc.recipe.deployment section to find the etc directory (in reality, we can accept any part that has an etc-directory setting); this will override any locally specified etc-directory. We haven’t created the directory we specified (and we’re not using zc.recipe.deployment to automatically do so) so this buildout will fail:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = zcml
...
... [deployment-settings]
... etc-directory = ${buildout:directory}/zope/deployment-etc
...
... [zcml]
... recipe = nti.recipes.zcml
... deployment = deployment-settings
... etc-directory = ${buildout:directory}/zope/etc
... package_location = empty-includes
... package_features = foo
... package_zcml =
... """)

>>> print(system(buildout))
Uninstalling zcml.
Installing zcml.
While:
  Installing zcml.
Error: The parents of '/.../zope/deployment-etc/empty-includes' do not exist
<BLANKLINE>

Malformed Package Names

An error is raised if the package name is malformed (although at the moment only the most egregious violations are detected):

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = zcml
...
... [zcml]
... recipe = nti.recipes.zcml
... etc-directory = ${buildout:directory}/zope/etc
... package_location = empty-includes
... package_zcml = $not_valid
... """)

>>> print(system(buildout))
Installing zcml.
While:
  Installing zcml.
Error: Invalid package name: '$not_valid' parsed as '$not_valid'
<BLANKLINE>

Specifying Filenames Twice

We can specify both the include_name and the filename for a single entry:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = zcml
...
... [zcml]
... recipe = nti.recipes.zcml
... etc-directory = ${buildout:directory}/zope/etc
... package_location = package-includes
... package_zcml = my.package-foo:filename.zcml
... """)

>>> print(system(buildout))
Installing zcml.


>>> ls("zope", "etc", "package-includes")
-  001-my.package-foo.zcml

>>> cat("zope", "etc", "package-includes", "001-my.package-foo.zcml")
<include package="my.package" file="filename.zcml" />

Changes

1.0.0 (2017-09-18)

  • Initial public release.

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