Various helper methods for development.
Project description
imio.helpers
Various helper methods for development.
Requirements
The barcode generation method uses zint tool (https://sourceforge.net/projects/zint/).
You have to install zint version >= 2.6.0.
Changelog
0.52 (2022-01-12)
Added cache.obj_modified function that returns max value between obj.modified(), obj._p_mtime and __anotations__._p_mtime [sgeulette]
Added cache.extract_wrapped function that returns original decorated function. Useful to compare cached and non cached results in tests. [sgeulette]
Updated git fetch url [sgeulette]
0.51 (2022-01-03)
Added monkey patch to handle SSL mailer on port 465. [sgeulette]
Added content.base_getattr method that will getattr without acquisition. [gbastien]
0.50 (2021-11-26)
Added content.get_transitions to be able to get available transition ids (as wfTool.getTransitionsFor returns a list of dict with transition infos). [gbastien]
Added adapters.MissingTerms, a base z3c.form missing terms adapter to be extended by local packages. [gbastien]
Added cache auto invalidation mecanism when using cache.get_cachekey_volatile the caller method can be passed, it’s name is stored in the volatiles registry then when calling cache.invalidate_cachekey_volatile_for with invalidate_cache=True, every cached methods are invalidated from ram.cache. This will make stale cache be invalidated immediatelly as when a date changed, the existing cache is never used again. [gbastien]
0.49 (2021-11-08)
Require plone.api>1.9.1 because we need content._parse_object_provides_query. This is necessay since we added content.find. [gbastien]
0.48 (2021-10-20)
Renamed content.ur_find to content.find with unrestricted parameter. [sgeulette]
Fixed content.find to avoid error if corresponding looped object is deleted. [sgeulette]
0.47 (2021-10-13)
Fixed content.get_user_fullname that was breaking when user had no fullname. [gbastien]
Added content.ur_find that’s the same as api.content.find but unrestrictedly [sgeulette]
0.46 (2021-09-28)
Added xhtml.replace_content function that will replace the content of given XHTML tag with some other content. This relies on package cssselect that is added as an extra dependency thru imio.helpers[lxml]. [gbastien]
0.45 (2021-07-16)
Added imio.helpers.SortedUsers, a vocabulary listing users sorted using natsort.humansorted. We need to rely on natsort to handle this. [gbastien]
Fixed bug in JS function submitFormHelperOnsuccessDefault called onsuccess by submitFormHelper to only consider response as a file to return if responser header content-length is found in request, this avoid returning a wrong blob object when called code returns an error message. [gbastien]
0.44 (2021-06-15)
In xhtml.separate_images be a bit less defensive, too complex cases are still ignored but when the <p> contains only non textual elements like <br> or blanks, just ignore these elements. [gbastien]
0.43 (2021-05-31)
Lowercased email address after validation. [sgeulette]
Fixed submitFormHelperOnsuccessDefault JS function to handle binary response so it is possible to download the result of the ajax query.
Added xhtml.imagesToData that turns the src of images used in a xhtml content from an http or equivalent URL to a data base64 value. [gbastien]
0.42 (2021-04-30)
Added parameter filetype=’PNG’ to barcode.generate_barcode so it is possible to use another supported image file format. [gbastien]
Added parameter replyto to emailer.send_email so it is possible to add reply-to header in message [sgeulette]
Adapted content.object_values and content.object_ids to be able to pass a single class name or a list of class names like it is the case for objectValues/objectIds. [gbastien]
0.41 (2021-04-21)
Corrected encoding problem in emailer. [sgeulette]
0.40 (2021-04-01)
Added target option in object_link function [sgeulette]
Added a ZPublisher :json suffix type converter. [gbastien]
Changed MockMailHost patch to avoid some problems [sgeulette]
Make xhtml.storeImagesLocally handle images with src using base64 encoded data (like data:image/png;base64,…). [gbastien]
0.39 (2021-02-25)
Added validate_email_address to check email address with a real name part. [sgeulette]
Added validate_email_addresses to check email addresses, separated by a comma. [sgeulette]
Added content.get_modified_attrs, when called in a IObjectModifiedEvent handler, will return the list of field names that were actually modified. [gbastien]
Returned email sender error messages. [sgeulette]
Added content.uuidToCatalogBrain that is a shortcut to content.uuidsToCatalogBrains but that will return a single value. [gbastien]
Added content.object_values and content.object_ids method, equivalent to Zope’s objectValues and objectIds but that will check contained element class name instead meta_type so it works with DX content types where meta_type is the same for every types. [gbastien]
Added content.uuidToObject that is a shortcut to content.uuidsToObjects but that will return a single value. [gbastien]
Corrected has_faceted function call in submitFormHelperOnsuccessDefault js [sgeulette]
Reloaded page when submitFormHelper is used on a non faceted page [sgeulette]
Added parameter toggle_type=’slide’ to JS helper toggleDetails, so it is possible to use slideToggle (default) or fadeToggle. fadeToggle behaves better when the hidden part contains a sticky element (table header). [gbastien]
0.38 (2021-01-06)
Added content.normalize_name that will normalize a given name, this is the code used when turning a title to an id when creating a new content. [gbastien]
0.37 (2020-12-21)
Added JS function submitFormHelper that will submit a given form and onsuccess, will call the function onsuccess in parameter (by default, when called in an overlay, will close the overlay and reload the faceted navigation). [gbastien]
Added security.fplog helper to ease adding a collective.fingerpointing message to the log. [gbastien]
Added plone.app.relationfield as a direct dependency. [gbastien]
0.36 (2020-12-07)
Added email functions (create_html_email, add_attachment, send_email) to create and send an email with attachments. [sgeulette]
Optimized xhtml.separate_images, do only walk the tree if it contains images (img tag). [gbastien]
Fixed content.richtextval outputMimeType parameter to use text/x-html-safe instead text/html. [gbastien]
Renamed JS function loadCollapsibleContent to loadContent as it can be used outside of collapsible scope. [gbastien]
0.35 (2020-11-18)
Added JS helper method canonical_url to get the current canonical URL so the url of the context when on a view. [gbastien]
In toggleDetails JS function, moved the part that does the async load in loadCollapsibleContent function so it is possible to call if from outside. [gbastien]
Added get_user_from_criteria helper method to search users following email or fullname [sgeulette]
Added param on transitions method, to not warn by default [sgeulette]
Completed appy_pod usecases, font-size 50%/150%. [gbastien]
Added catalog.merge_queries function that merges plone.app.querystring compatible catalog queries into one single query. [gbastien]
Do not break in xhtml.storeImagesLocally if a NotFound occurs while getting an internal image. [gbastien]
0.34 (2020-10-16)
Moved JS function setoddeven from listings.js to helpers.js so it is available by default. [gbastien]
Added setup_logger in security module to change logger level (when doing instance run by example) [sgeulette]
0.33 (2020-10-01)
Added content.get_relations and content.get_back_relations to easily get relations and back relations on an object. [gbastien]
Do not break in xhtml.storeImagesLocally if image URL contains non-ASCII characters. [gbastien]
Added xhtml.separate_images that will make sure images are separated in different <p> to avoid breaking appy.pod when using LibreOffice 6.0.x. [gbastien]
0.32 (2020-09-10)
Log every 1000 elements instead 100 in catalog.addOrUpdateIndexes and catalog.reindexIndexes. [gbastien]
Fixed code to make except Exception syntax Python 3.8 compatible. [gbastien]
0.31 (2020-08-18)
Correctly translate a utf8 state title. [sgeulette]
Added content.safe_delattr to avoid having to check base_hasattr before. [gbastien]
Added JS helper function toggleDetails to be able to show/hide details using a collapsable <div>. [gbastien]
Completed appy_pod usecases, fixed images to use https://picsum.photos/ instead https://www.imio.be [gbastien]
0.30 (2020-06-24)
In content.uuidsToObjects, get object with brain._unrestrictedGetObject in case parameter unrestricted=True. [gbastien]
0.29 (2020-05-28)
Added parameter unrestricted=False to content.uuidsToCatalogBrains and content.uuidsToObjects, when True, catalog search is done unrestricted. [gbastien]
0.28 (2020-05-26)
Added outputMimeType parameter to richtextval method [sgeulette]
Added parameter query={} to content.uuidsToCatalogBrains, this let’s you complete the catalog query in case you have UIDs and you want to filter it on additional index like review_state. [gbastien]
Added new parameter catalog_id=’portal_catalog’ to methods catalog.addOrUpdateIndexes, catalog.removeIndexes, catalog.removeColumns and catalog.reindexIndexes so it is possible to proceed with another catalog than portal_catalog. [gbastien]
Added parameter check_contained_uids=False to content.uuidsToCatalogBrains and content.uuidsToObjects, when set to True, if query on UID index returns nothing, it will query on contained_uids index if it exists in the portal_catalog that is a special index used to index UIDs of contained elements that are not indexed. [gbastien]
Added IContainerOfUnindexedElementsMarker marker interface to mark objects containing unindexed objects. [gbastien]
0.27 (2020-04-20)
Do not break in xhtml.imagesToPath if <img> use a wrong resolveuid/unknown_uid. [gbastien]
Fixed tests to not use images from site https://www.imio.be/ but from site https://i.picsum.photos/. [gbastien]
0.26 (2020-02-25)
Added set_to_annotation method. [sgeulette]
Always return something in annotations functions. [sgeulette]
0.25 (2019-11-26)
Added logging in xhtml.storeImagesLocally if unable to traverse to img_path. [gbastien]
Fixed bug in xhtml.storeImagesLocally where an image stored in another Plone element having absolute_url starting with current element absolute_url was not stored locally. [gbastien]
0.24 (2019-11-25)
Removed wrong overrides of collective.iconifiedcategory translation file. [gbastien]
Added optionally behavior prefix in get_schema_fields. [sgeulette]
Fixed bug in xhtml.storeImagesLocally._handle_internal_image to be sure that traversed path to image does not starts with a / or it fails with a KeyError. This is the case when the Plone Site is using a domain name. Make sure also traversed img_path element is actually an Image. [gbastien]
0.23 (2019-09-12)
Added content.get_vocab helper method to easily get a IVocabularyFactory vocabulary instance or only the factory when parameter only_factory=True. [gbastien]
Added catalog.reindexIndexes helper method making it possible to reindex a specific portal_catalog index with ZLogHandler log output. [gbastien]
Added javascript function to callViewAndReload with ajax. Gotten from PloneMeeting ;-) [sgeulette]
Added get_state_infos (used in PM and plonetheme.imioapps). [sgeulette]
0.22 (2019-08-23)
Added parameter update_metadata to catalog.addOrUpdateColumns, if True (default), the new added metadata are updated on every catalogued objects. [gbastien]
Added function to return html link for an object [sgeulette]
0.21 (2019-08-13)
Added parameter get_again=False to cache.invalidate_cachekey_volatile_for, when True, this will call cache.get_cachekey_volatile just after the cache is invalidated so we get a fresh date stored. This is useful to avoid write by async requests if it calls cache.get_cachekey_volatile. [gbastien]
0.20 (2019-07-19)
In xhtml.storeImagesLocally, do not break when a resolveuid is found but it does not find the image. This can be the case when copy/pasting HTML code from another instance or so. [gbastien]
In xhtml.removeBlanks, check if content is empty by calling xhtml.xhtmlContentIsEmpty with parameter tagWithAttributeIsNotEmpty=False so empty tags with attributes are considered empty. [gbastien]
0.19 (2019-07-05)
Patch index method from collective.solr to fix an issue with partial reindex [mpeeters]
Added css id on row field display in container.pt and content.pt. [sgeulette]
0.18 (2019-05-16)
Added appy.pod sample that show problem of wrongly defined style like margin-left: opt; using opt instead 0pt. [gbastien]
Added appy.pod sample that show problem of class not used in <li> or <td>. [gbastien]
Added methods content.disable_link_integrity_checks and content.restore_link_integrity_checks to be able to disable the enable_link_integrity_checks property and to restore it to it’s original value. This works for Plone4 (property) and Plone5 (registry). [gbastien]
Fix import of IEditingSchema on Plone5. [gbastien]
0.17 (2019-02-12)
Added collapsible option on container view. [sgeulette]
Do not store date for get_cachekey_volatile/invalidate_cachekey_volatile_for in a volatile (_v_…) as it seems “stored” by thread and is computed to much times. [gbastien]
Added JS helper method has_faceted returning true if currently on a faceted. [gbastien]
0.16 (2019-01-31)
Added appy.pod usecase to show problems with table optimization if <td> has a defined size. [gbastien]
Added appy.pod usecase to show problems with table having a first empty <tr></tr> that do not render second column of following lines. [gbastien]
Added appy.pod usecase for line-height style. [gbastien]
Added appy.pod usecase for <img> without src that breaks generation. [gbastien]
Do not break in xhtml.imagesToPath if <img> does not have a src. [gbastien]
0.15 (2018-12-18)
Display more logging in content.validate_fields when bypassing validation. [gbastien]
In catalog.addOrUpdateIndexes, pass a ZLogHandler to reindexIndex so the progress is shown in the Zope log. [gbastien]
In content.add_to_annotation and content.del_from_annotation, store annotation in a PersistentList instead a set() to avoid persistence problems. [gbastien]
0.14 (2018-10-22)
Improved content create to avoid creating object when defined id already exists. [sgeulette]
Added methods content.uuidsToCatalogBrains and content.uuidsToObjects. [gbastien]
Adapted content.validate_fields to bypass validation when field.required=False, value is None and field type is other than Bool. Validation is also bypassed for field using a source attribute because it fails for now… [gbastien]
Added parameter raise_on_errors to content.validate_fields to raise a ValueError when errors are found instead simply returning it. [gbastien]
0.13 (2018-08-31)
Added content.get_schema_fields to get schema fields (behaviors included by default). [sgeulette]
Pep8 on imports. [sgeulette]
Added appy.pod usecase for lists containing tables. [bleybaert]
Added dependency on Plone in setup.py. [gbastien]
Do not break in xhtml.storeImagesLocally._handle_internal_image if image src is not a path to an image but to another element (like Folder or Plone Site). [gbastien]
0.12 (2018-05-03)
Added appy.pod usecase for rgba(). [gbastien]
Improved annotation code [sgeulette]
0.11 (2018-01-30)
Use html instead xml for lxml.html.to_string rendering method. This avoids results like <p><s></s></p> turned to <p><s/></p>. [gbastien]
0.10 (2017-12-21)
Fixed bug in catalog.addOrUpdateIndexes where a new index was not reindexed if it was added together with an already existing index. [gbastien]
Fixed bug in xhtml.storeImagesLocally when img uses a resolveuid and starts with the portal_url (this is the case when using uploadimage plugin in collective.ckeditor), it raised a NotFound error. [gbastien]
In xhtml.storeImagesLocally, keep the scale at the end of the URL using resolveuid (like resolveuid/content_uid/image_preview). [gbastien]
Use PyPDF2 instead deprecated pyPdf to insert barcode into PDF. This solves ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘’. [gbastien]
0.9 (2017-11-27)
Added appy.pod usecase for complex styles start/end on same paragraph. [gbastien]
Do not break in xhtml.storeImagesLocally when no <img> src found. [gbastien]
Add methods to manage annotations (Add and Remove). [anuyens, odelaere]
Added method to get annotation [sgeulette]
0.8 (2017-10-04)
In xhtml.storeImagesLocally, take into account <img> src that uses resolveuid. This is the case when using collective.ckeditor and option allow_link_byuid is enabled. [gbastien]
Do not use /* … */ together with https:// in helpers.js comment or merged javascripts produce a wrong format and raise a JS comment unterminated error in the browser. [gbastien]
0.7 (2017-09-22)
Added method testing_logger to testing.py that enables logging into tests. [gbastien]
0.6 (2017-09-15)
Changed method xhtml.storeExternalImagesLocally to xhtml.storeImagesLocally, it handles now external and internal images retrieval so an image stored in the portal is also created in given context when necessary. [gbastien]
0.5 (2017-08-30)
Added method to safe encode string. [sgeulette]
appy.pod usecase : table using width of 0px. [gbastien]
In content.validate_fields, added special bypass to avoid failing validation for Choice field that is required=False and for which given value is None. Validation fails because None not in vocabulary but it is nevertheless a correct value as it is managed by the widget while added thru the UI. [gbastien]
Added JS fix to be able to print <fieldset> on several pages in Firefox, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471015. This makes it necessary to add a default profile to add the JS resource ++resource++imio.helpers/helpers.js. [gbastien]
0.4.29 (2017-07-25)
Get intid value or create it if not found. [sgeulette]
Added possibility to pass ‘scale’ value to pdf.BarcodeStamp. [gbastien]
More appy.pod usecase : not rendered sub bullets with no parent bullet. [gbastien]
0.4.28 (2017-07-04)
Added method to create NamedBlobFile or NamedBlobImage. [sgeulette]
0.4.27 (2017-06-30)
Return portal when obj_path is / on create content. [bsuttor]
Added case for appy.pod that show complex HTML structure failing in appy.pod 0.9.7. [gbastien]
Added root attribute in fancytree [sgeulette]
Changed barcode generation options, following zint 2.6 [sgeulette]
0.4.26 (2017-03-14)
Set CLASS_TO_LAST_CHILDREN_NUMBER_OF_CHARS_DEFAULT = 240. [gbastien]
0.4.25 (2017-02-21)
Use same class names than appy.pod regarding the ‘keep with next’ functionnality. [gbastien]
0.4.24 (2017-02-14)
In content.validate_fields, initialize field by calling bind(obj) so necessary things like vocabularies are available. [gbastien]
0.4.23 (2017-02-14)
Added content module test. [sgeulette]
Improved get_object, add_image, add_file, create methods [sgeulette]
Added content.validate_fields that will validate fields of a given dexterity obj. [gbastien]
0.4.22 (2016-12-21)
Added more usecases to test appy.pod rendering : ‘text-decoration: none;’, complex and reallife table examples, … [gbastien]
Added method xhtml.removeCssClasses to be able to remove some specific Css classes from a given xhtmlContent. [gbastien]
0.4.21 (2016-12-05)
Added method xhtml.addClassToContent that gives the ability to add a CSS class to the CONTENT_TAGS (<p>, <strong>, …) of a given xhtmlContent. [gbastien]
Add @volatile_cache_without_parameters and @volatile_cache_with_parameters decorators [mpeeters]
Store the volatile keys on a dictionary on the portal [mpeeters]
Can add a file to an object. [sgeulette]
Added case in ‘appy_pod_sample’ to check when style attribute is used to define italic/bold/underline/strike directly on <li> or on <li> containing <p> or <span>. [gbastien]
0.4.20 (2016-10-05)
Added ‘path’ module with method ‘path_to_package’ that will return the absolute FS path to a given package. An extra ‘filepart’ can be provided to complete the returned path. This is useful to get a template in a ‘browser/template’ folder for example. [gbastien]
0.4.19 (2016-09-26)
Do not pretty_print HTML returned by lxml.html.tostring or it can leads to weird behaviors like extra blank space in case we have nested <span> tags. ‘pretty_print’ is now a parameter to relevant methods and is False by default [gbastien]
Added methods to create content from a dictionary, to get object following criterias, to apply multiple transitions, to create a RichTextValue object [sgeulette]
Added default views for Dexterity content and container that display fields in a table with widget label and the left and widget value on the right. The view for container also includes an asynchronous folder_listing that lists contained elements. Taken from imio.project.core [gbastien]
0.4.18 (2016-06-17)
Use by default scale=2 instead of scale=4 when generating barcode. [gbastien]
Added methods int2word, wordizeDate and formatDate aiming to transform numbers into french translation, date with only numbers into date in full and to format dates (with hours, with month name in full, …). [DieKatze]
0.4.17 (2016-03-22)
Added constant CLASS_TO_LAST_CHILDREN_NUMBER_OF_CHARS_DEFAULT to define the default number of characters to take into account while marking last tags in xhtml.addClassToLastChildren. This way it can be used in other packages. [gbastien]
Fixed xhtml.imagesToPath to handle image src using ‘resolveuid’ correctly. [gbastien]
0.4.16 (2016-03-14)
Bugfix in xhtml.storeExternalImagesLocally if downloaded external image has no ‘Content-Disposition’ header. [gbastien]
0.4.15 (2016-03-14)
Added helper to be able to easily test appy.pod rendering by loading a full HTML content to any content (AT or DX) by specifying a RichText field_name. [gbastien]
Added method xhtml.imagesToPath that turns the src of images used in a xhtml content from an ‘http’ or equivalent path to the absolute path on the FileSystem to the .blob image file. [gbastien]
Added method xhtml.storeExternalImagesLocally that will ensure that externally referenced images are downloaded, stored locally and xhtmlContent is adapted accordingly. [gbastien]
0.4.14 (2016-02-25)
Added methods cache.get_cachekey_volatile and cache.invalidate_cachekey_volatile_for to be used with methods using decorator @ram.cache. This is meant for long living cached methods that are invalidated manually. get_cachekey_volatile will be used in the method cachekey and invalidate_cachekey_volatile_for will be used to invalidate the cachekey. [gbastien]
Add a function to generate a barcode with zint : #13100. [mpeeters]
Removed initialize() call from __init__, no need to be considered as a Zope2 product. [gbastien]
0.4.13 (2016-01-22)
Use safe_unicode() instead of unicode(), especially in xhtml.markEmptyTags to avoid UnicideDecode errors. [gbastien]
0.4.12 (2016-01-21)
Added test when an uid (path) is no more in the portal_catalog, it does not break catalog.addOrUpdateColumns. [gbastien]
In xhtml.xhtmlContentIsEmpty, do no more consider tag children in _isEmpty, a tag rendering nothing (text_content().strip() is empty) will be considered empty. [gbastien]
0.4.11 (2015-11-12)
Added ‘cache.cleanRamCache’ method that will invalidateAll ram.cache. [gbastien]
0.4.10 (2015-08-21)
Add get_environment method and test. [bsuttor]
is_develop_environment method is true if global environment variable ‘ENV’ is equal to ‘dev’. [bsuttor]
Added ‘cache’ module with helper methods ‘cleanVocabularyCacheFor’ that will clean instance.memoize cache defined on a named vocabulary and ‘cleanRamCacheFor’ that will clean ram.cache defined on a given method. [gbastien]
0.4.9 (2015-04-21)
In xhtml.addClassToLastChildren, do not define an empty class attribute. Indeed, not managed tags were decorated with a ‘class=””’ attribute, this is no more the case. [gbastien]
0.4.8 (2015-04-20)
Manage every text formatting tags in xhtml.addClassToLastChildren and do not break on unknwon tags. [gbastien]
Replace special characters by corresponding HTML entity in xhtml.addClassToLastChildren so rendered content still contains original HTML entities. This avoid HTML entities being rendered as UTF-8 characters and some weirdly recognized (” “). [gbastien]
0.4.7 (2015-03-06)
Adapted method xhtml.addClassToLastChildren to mark parent tag containing unhandled tags. [gbastien]
0.4.6 (2015-02-26)
Added method markEmptyTags that will mark empty tags of a given xhtmlContent with a specific CSS class. [gbastien]
Removed method security.call_as_super_user as we will rely on plone.api.env.adopt_roles to execute some methods as super user. [gbastien]
0.4.5 (2015-02-05)
Added method to test if the buildout is in development mode (IS_DEV_ENV=True). [sgeulette]
Added method to generate a password following criterias. [sgeulette]
0.4.4 (2015-01-29)
Make it possible to pass specific class by tag to hxtml.addClassToLastChildren, this way, a specific class can be set depending on the node tag. [gbastien]
0.4.3 (2015-01-20)
Added method addClassToLastChildren that will add a specific class attribute to last tags of a given xhtmlContent. [gbastien]
0.4.2 (2014-09-19)
Do not consider xhtmlContent to easily empty : xhtmlContent is empty if it does not produce text, does not have attributes and does not have children. [gbastien]
Use method xhtmlContentIsEmpty in method removeBlanks to avoid duplicating code and logic. [gbastien]
0.4.1 (2014-09-11)
Corrected bug in ‘removeBlanks’ that removed children of an empty parent tag, that leaded to removal of complex trees like <u><li>My text</li><li>My second text</li></ul>. [gbastien]
0.3 (2014-09-04)
Corrected bug in ‘xhtmlContentIsEmpty’ that did not managed correctly complex HTML tree. We use now lxml method ‘text_content’ to check if a HTML structure will render something or not. [gbastien]
0.2 (2014-08-27)
- Added xhtml.py module with helper methods for XHTML content :
‘removeBlanks’ that will remove blank lines of a given xhtmlContent;
‘xhtmlContentIsEmpty’ that will check if given xhtmlContent will produce something when rendered.
[gbastien]
0.1 (2014-08-18)
Initial release. [sdelcourt]
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