eea.stringinterp 1.0

Extended plone.stringinterp functionality

Extends plone.stringinterp functionallity with a generic fallback string substitution adapter that lookup context properties if no explicit named IStringSubstitution is defined.

Contents

• Main features

• Install

• Usage

• Code usage

• Buildout installation

• Source code

• Eggs repository

• Plone versions

• How to contribute

• Copyright and license

• Funding

• Changelog

Main features

1. Generic string substitution adapter to easily grab custom properties from context

Install

• Add eea.stringinterp to your eggs section in your buildout and re-run buildout:

  [buildout]
  eggs +=
    eea.stringinterp

• You can download a sample buildout from:

  • https://github.com/eea/eea.stringinterp/tree/master/buildouts/plone4

  • https://github.com/eea/eea.stringinterp/tree/master/buildouts/plone5

• Or via docker:

  $ docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 -e ADDONS="eea.stringinterp" plone

• Install eea.stringinterp within Site Setup > Add-ons

Usage

• Via Site Setup > Dexterity Content Types > Page > Fields Tab add new Field, e.g.: custom_field

• Via Site Setup > Content Rules add a rule to send email on Workflow change

• Within Message add some Custom: ${custom_field}

• Add new Page and fill the custom_field

• Publish your Page

• Check your email

Code usage

>>> from plone.stringinterp.interfaces import IStringSubstitution
>>> substitute = IStringSubstitution(sandbox)
>>> substitute
<eea.stringinterp.adapters.GenericContextAttributeSubstitution object at...>

>>> substitute('title')
'Sandbox'

>>> substitute('effective')
'Oct 10, 2021 12:00 AM'

>>> substitute('Subject')
'air, pollution'

Buildout installation

• Plone 4+

• Plone 5+

Source code

• Plone 4+ on github

• Plone 5+ on github

Eggs repository

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/eea.stringinterp

• http://eggrepo.eea.europa.eu/simple

Plone versions

It has been developed and tested for Plone 4 and 5. See buildouts section above.

How to contribute

See the contribution guidelines (CONTRIBUTING.md).

Copyright and license

eea.stringinterp (the Original Code) is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

The Initial Owner of the Original Code is European Environment Agency (EEA). Portions created by Eau de Web are Copyright (C) 2009 by European Environment Agency. All Rights Reserved.

Funding

EEA - European Environment Agency (EU)

Changelog

1.0 - (2021-05-28)

• Add ‘Generic string substitution’ adapter to easily grab properties from context [avoinea - refs #134513]