collective.z3cform.grok

A small integration of z3cform using grok magic on plone by Makina Corpus.

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Introduction

This package enables the use of z3c forms in grok.View style inside a plone environment.

Note that you have two wrappers and a basic form class:

FormWrapper to use the basic z3c.form template

PloneFormWrapper is a basic z3c.form wrapper with some plone integration (fieldsets & kss) (from plone.app.z3cform)

PloneForm is a basic z3c.form with some plone integration (fieldsets & groups) (from plone.app.z3cform)

A TestCase to test your code with z3cform.grok with either using directly itself or by sublassing it

Credits

Basic Usage

Declare a form in ‘foo.py’ module

>>> import plone.z3cform.fieldsets.extensible.ExtensibleForm$
>>> import z3c.form.form.Form
>>> class Myform(plone.z3cform.fieldsets.extensible.ExtensibleForm, z3c.form.form.Form):
...    """A z3c.form"""
...    ingoreContext = True or False # override me

Note that collective.z3cform.grok.grok.PloneForm is a shortcut to the previous declaration, see implementation.

Then a Wrapper

>>> from collective.z3cform.grok.grok import PloneFormWrapper
>>> class myview(PloneFormWrapper):
...     form = Myform

Write a basic template, in foo_templates/myview.py, for example:

<tal metal:use-macro="context/main_template/macros/master">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal"
    xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"
    xmlns:i18n="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/i18n"
    i18n:domain="nmd.sugar.forms"
    xml:lang="en" lang="en"
    tal:define="lang language"
    tal:attributes="lang lang; xml:lang lang">
    <body>
      <metal:main fill-slot="body">
        <tal:block tal:content="structure python:view.render_form()"></tal:block>
      </metal:main>
    </body>
  </html>
</tal>

Et voila, you can access your form @

http://url/@@myview

Basic grok testing in a third party package

Import the basic testcase

>>> from collective.z3cform.grok.tests.test_doctests import DocTestCase as dt
>>> from collective.z3cform.grok.tests.test_doctests import collective_z3cform_grok_setUp
>>> from collective.z3cform.grok.tests.test_doctests import collective_z3cform_grok_tearDown

Compose a testcase with one of your favourite testcases

>>> class DocTestCase(MyFunctionalTestCase, dt):
...    def setUp_hook(self, *args, **kwargs):
...        MyFunctionalTestCase.setUp(self)
...    def tearDown_hook(self, *args, **kwargs):
...        MyFunctionalTestCase.tearDown(self)
...    def afterSetUp(self):
...        """."""
...        MyFunctionalTestCase.afterSetUp(self)
...

Make a doc_suite soap assembling the whole

   >>> def test_doctests_suite(directory=None, globs=None, suite=None, testklass=None):
   ...     if not testklass: testklass=DocTestCase
   ...     if not directory:
   ...         directory, _f = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(__file__))
   ...     elif os.path.isfile(directory):
   ...         directory = os.path.dirname(directory)
   ...     files = [os.path.join(directory, f) for f in os.listdir(directory)
   ...                                   if f.endswith('.txt')]
   ...     if not globs:
   ...         globs={}
   ...     g = globals()
   ...     for key in g:
   ...         globs.setdefault(key, g[key])
   ...     directory = directory
   ...
   ...     if not suite:
   ...         suite = unittest.TestSuite()
   ...     if files:
   ...         options = doctest.REPORT_ONLY_FIRST_FAILURE |\
   ...                   doctest.NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE | doctest.ELLIPSIS
   ...         for test in files:
   ...             ft = ztc.ZopeDocFileSuite(
   ...                 test,
   ...                 test_class=testklass,
   ...                 optionflags=options,
   ...                 globs=globs,
   ...                 setUp=collective_z3cform_grok_setUp,
   ...                 tearDown=collective_z3cform_grok_tearDown,
   ...                 module_relative = False,
   ...             )
   ...             suite.addTest(ft)
   ...     return suite
   >>> def test_suite():
   ...     """."""
   ...     suite = unittest.TestSuite()
   ...     return test_doctests_suite(suite=suite)


Et voila, all files ending with txt in the tests directory will be tested with that magic TestCase.

Using grok.View to display z3c.forms in plone

The goal of this package was to make a very minimal integration of z3c.form and plone. Far from plone.app.directive, my goal was to be light.

Do a simple naming schema

<<< import collective;from five import grok
<<< import zope, z3c
<<< class IMyFormSchema(zope.interface.Interface):
...     name = zope.schema.Text(title=u"Name", description = u'Name', required=False)
<<< class MyForm(z3c.form.form.Form):
...     ignoreContext = True
...     fields = z3c.form.field.Fields(IMyFormSchema)
...     @z3c.form.button.buttonAndHandler(u'Ok', name='Ok')
...     def ok(self, action, *args, **kwargs):
...         msg = u'me Grok NameField <> @name == %s' % self.widgets['name'].value
...         from Products.statusmessages.interfaces import IStatusMessage
...         IStatusMessage(self.request).addStatusMessage(msg, type='info')

The grok.View wrapping form can be looking like that

<<< class myview(collective.z3cform.grok.grok.FormWrapper):
...     grok.context(zope.interface.Interface)
...     form = MyForm

Note that this grok style class support those attributes:

layer: the Form Layer

Any grok directive (require, template, context, etc.)

form: The form class

Think that you can add some directives also on your form like ignoreContext

As we know how grok works, telling that we want an Interface as a context says that this form applys everywhere.
ignoreContext is used just to drop context mapping.
All that we have to do now is to instantiate and render our view and our form. And with grok magic, the view is already registered on our portal Note that its template will automaticly resolve to module_templates/lower_view_name.pt, and here: form_templates/bar.bt

>>> request = make_request()
>>> interface.alsoProvides(request, z3c.form.interfaces.IFormLayer)
>>> interface.alsoProvides(request, zope.annotation.interfaces.IAttributeAnnotatable)
>>> pv = getMultiAdapter((portal, request), name='myview')
>>> pv.template.__grok_location__.endswith('form_templates/myview.pt')
True
>>> print open(pv.template.__grok_location__).read()
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal"
  xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"
  xmlns:i18n="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/i18n"
  lang="en" xml:lang="en"
  metal:use-macro="context/main_template/macros/master">
  <body>
    <metal:main fill-slot="main">
      <tal:main-macro metal:define-macro="main">
        <p>my grokky template</p>
        <p>The form is:</p>
        <tal:block tal:content="structure python:view.render_form()"></tal:block>
      </tal:main-macro>
    </metal:main>
  </body>
</html>
<BLANKLINE>

We need to call the update method to manually trigger the form.update() process

>>> pv.compute_widgets()
>>> print '\n'.join([a.rstrip() for a in pv.render_form().split('\n') if a.strip()])
        <form action="http://nohost/@@myview" method="post"
           enctype="multipart/form-data">
                  <div class="row">
                      <div class="field">
                        <label for="form-widgets-name">
                          <span>Name</span>
                        </label>
                        <div class="formHelp">Name</div>
                        <div class="widget">
                          <textarea id="form-widgets-name" name="form.widgets.name"
              class="textarea-widget text-field"></textarea>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                  </div>
                <div class="action">
                  <input type="submit" id="form-buttons-Ok"
           name="form.buttons.Ok"
           class="submit-widget button-field" value="Ok" />
                </div>
        </form>
>>> pv.__class__
<class 'collective.z3cform.grok.tests.form.myview'>

Verify the authenticity of our grok.View

>>> from zope.interface.verify import verifyObject
>>> from grokcore.view.interfaces import IGrokView
>>> pv.request is request
True
>>> verifyObject(IGrokView, pv)
True

We can also test that all is in place through the web and that our view is registered and the switch_on cruft works. Note that it uses the plone.app.z3cform form.pt template.

>>> browser.open(portal.absolute_url()+"/@@myview")
>>> print '\n'.join([a.rstrip() for a in browser.contents.split('\n') if a.strip()])
<...<p>my grokky template</p>...<p>The form is:</p>
...<p class="discreet"></p>
...<form class="rowlike enableUnloadProtection  kssattr-formname-@@myview"...action="http://nohost/plone/@@myview"...
...id="form-widgets-name"...
...id="form-buttons-Ok"...
...</form>...

Testing that the form submission & actions are working

>>> browser.handleErrors = False
>>> browser.open(portal.absolute_url()+"/@@myview")
>>> browser.getControl(name='form.widgets.name').value = 'foo'
>>> browser.getControl(name='form.buttons.Ok').click()
>>> browser.url
'http://nohost/plone/@@myview'
>>> 'class="textarea-widget text-field">foo</textarea>' in browser.contents
True

Opening again with our StatusMessage cookie which has been set by previous request

>>> '<dd>me Grok NameField &lt;&gt; @name == foo</dd>' in browser.contents
True

collective.z3cform.grok Installation

To install collective.z3cform.grok into the global Python environment (or a workingenv), using a traditional Zope 2 instance, you can do this:

When you’re reading this you have probably already run easy_install collective.z3cform.grok. Find out how to install setuptools (and EasyInstall) here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
If you are using Zope 2.9 (not 2.10), get pythonproducts and install it via:
python setup.py install --home /path/to/instance
into your Zope instance.
Create a file called collective.z3cform.grok-configure.zcml in the /path/to/instance/etc/package-includes directory. The file should only contain this:
<include package="collective.z3cform.grok" />

Alternatively, if you are using zc.buildout and the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to manage your project, you can do this:

Add collective.z3cform.grok to the list of eggs to install, e.g.:
[buildout]
...
eggs =
    ...
    collective.z3cform.grok
Tell the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to install a ZCML slug:
[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
...
zcml =
    collective.z3cform.grok
Re-run buildout, e.g. with:
$ ./bin/buildout

You can skip the ZCML slug if you are going to explicitly include the package from another package’s configure.zcml file.

Changelog

1.15 (2012-08-08)

fix utf-8 header

fix interfaces import

remove useless dependencies

changed plone.z3cform.z2.decode in grok.py to reflect the existing plone.z3cform - maybe was a version difference [miohtama]

1.10

Add other forms helpers (contextless, subform)

Externalize some glue to deal with zope2 requests for reuse in other code.

1.9

remove useless call

1.6 - 1.7 - 1.8

rework the tests infra.

1.4-1.5

fix packaing & reload function

1.3

add plone form

yet better support for layers

1.2

handle better group forms and layers

1.1

bugfix: misunderstood something about the form.updateWidgets method.

1.0

Initial release

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