Products.ATSchemaEditorNG 0.6

ATSchemaEditorNG is a framework to provide flexible schema editing for AT content-types

Abstract

ATSchemaEditorNG is a framework to provide flexible schema editing for AT content-types.

Requirements:

3.x (for 2.5.x use version 0.5.x)

Installation:

See docs/INSTALL.txt.

Short (buildout): Add Products.ATSchemaEditorNG to eggs= section and in the context of your instance to zcml= section. Goto portal_quickinstaller and install ATSE. If you want to have demo types go to config.py and enable them.

Current Maintainer:

Simon Pamies (spamsch) EMail: s.pamies at banality dot de

Original Author:

Andreas Jung, ZOPYX Ltd. & Co. KG D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany

License:

ATSchemaEditorNG is (C) by Andreas Jung, Simon Pamies, Rob Miller, and contributors, and published as open-source under the GNU Lesser General Public License V 2.1 (see LICENSE.txt). If this license does not meet your requirements, contact the maintainers for releasing ATSchemaEditorNG under a suitable license.

Documentation:

NOTICE: Please notice that since 0.4 objects that get created no longer automatically sync schema with editor schema. If you have changes in your editor and then create a new object this object will not get changes unless you call self.updateSchemaFromEditor() in manage_afterAdd. Please make sure the call is the first one before you call things like BaseContent.manage_afterAdd

Example for initializing content object based on ParentManagedSchema or such:

def manage_afterAdd(self, item, container): self.updateSchemaFromEditor() BaseContent.manage_afterAdd(self, item, container)

Look at the examples directory and make sure you read docstrings in ParentManagedSchema.py. Also read the howto (doc/HOWTO.txt).

Contributions:

Thanks to gocept for sponsoring some work in 0.4.5

Thanks to Aaron VanDerlip for useful hints about portal_factory failures in 0.4.1

Many thanks to coreblox (http://coreblox.com) for sponsoring all work on 0.4.0

Whit Morriss: examples and tests

Rob Miller (rafrombrc): Maintainership until 0.4 - much work for 0.3.x line.

Simon Pamies: fixes, code cleanup, schema update mechanism revisited (and most of the stuff in V 0.2 and 0.4)

Sasha Vincic: storage registry implementation

0.6 (unreleased) - Eggified completely [spamsch]

• REST fixes

[ajung]

• Various Plone 3 fixes

[macadames]

0.5.1 (24.03.2010)

• change atse_updateManagedSchema so it's waking up only objects

that need to be updated [amleczko]

0.5.0 (16.03.2010)

• Added Select to the StringField selection

[spamsch]

• Fixed #13: Error during tool access via ZMI.

[spamsch]

• Get rid of CMFCorePermissions

[naro]

• Added new atse_addOrReplaceField method.

[spamsch]

• Added more configuration options for text fields and for

storage selection. Look at config.py. [spamsch]

0.4.7 (01.10.2007)

• Added schema template editor - allows defining re-usable schemata.

[mkoch,ctheune]

0.4.6 (never released)

• Fixed #12: isEmpty always shown als activated validator.

[spamsch]

• Fixed #11: ReferenceBrowserWidget was not available. Thanks to

Alexander Pilz for finding this. [spamsch]

• supplied missing import: this fixes #9 Broken uninstall method

[lzdych]

0.4.6rc1 (17.08.2007)

• Started writing some simple howto (doc/HOWTO.txt)

[spamsch]

• Added new feature flag HAS_MANAGEMENT_UI_FUNCTIONALITY that

can be used to control if management functions are displayed. [spamsch]

• UI p0rn (much more to come)

[spamsch]

• Fixed bug where a security check did not success for TTW added

schemas. Thanks to Hedley Roos. [spamsch]

• Added a patch for Products.validation.RangeValidator to relax the

max value check (instead of value < maxval we check value <= maxval) and added there tolerance to string typed max and min. [spamsch]

• Extended editor so that you can pass your own parameters to each

validator that supports parameters (like inNumericRange). Also added a bridge to non-registered RegexValidator so that users can input their own regular expression. [spamsch]

• Extended editor so that you can now upload a file to each field.

Usecase: Fields based upon editor defined fields want to have a template.

Example:

atse_config.field_registry.update({'ExcelField': {'field': ExcelField, 'allowed_widgets':['ExcelWidget', 'FileWidget', ], 'post_method':'atse_attachFilePostMethod', 'post_macro':'here/fileattach_macros/macros/upload'}})

Simply define post_method and post_macro as defined here. For this example an excel file can be uploaded to excel fields and serve as template. You can then access the attached file: schemaeditor.atse_getAttachedFieldFile(<fieldname>). [spamsch]

• Revamped validator selection so that it shows a list of available

validators instead of having the user input them. [spamsch]

• Added support for ATVocabularyManager including UI selection of vocabularies.

[spamsch]

• Introduced new flag HAS_FIELD_VISIBILITY_ENABLED that controls

if the UI should show the visibility controls for a field. [spamsch]

• Introduced a new flag HAS_SECURITY_MANAGEMENT_ENABLED that controls

if the UI shows field security management related stuff. [spamsch]

• Introduced new method atse_hasFeature(name) that can be used to

check if a given feature (defined in config.py) is available. [spamsch]

• Fixed field->widget associations defined in config.py. The complete

select line (like Flex or Radio) were not included. [spamsch]

• Added methode atse_reinitializeRegistries because upon fresh registration

of fields and widgets instances do not get the changes. [spamsch]

• documentation updates - clarify maintainership and add contributions

[spamsch]

0.4.5 (never released)

• Fixed uninstall procedure - CMFQI does not remove configlets

Thanks to IOhannes m zmoelnig for the fix. [spamsch]

• Added permission handling for fields. For each field you can

now select the permission from an predefined list (from site_properties/atsePossible*Permissions) [spamsch]

• Added some constraints for allowed widgets. Look at config.py

to see what changed (allowed_widgets). For each field we now define a set of acceptable widgets. Now you can't select an IntWidget for a ReferenceField anymore :-) [spamsch]

• Added type support for DataGridField. That means that you can specify a types

for each of the fields you define. Needs patched version of DataGridField! Please make sure to apply the included diff (in doc/datagridfield-validatecolumn.diff) to a 1.5.0 version of DataGridField (MoreFieldsAndWidgets/DataGridField/tags/1.5.0). If you don't do this ATSE will not include DataGridFieldSupport!

Do the following to patch correctly: $ cd <path_to_DataGridField> $ cat version.txt 1.5.0 $ patch -p 0 < ../ATSchemaEditorNG/doc/datagridfield-validatedcolumn.diff [spamsch]

0.4.4 (18.04.2007)

• Fixed DataGridWidget failure

[spamsch]

• Fixed references to zLOG replacing with logging package

[spamsch]

• added MultiCheckbox widget - defined as MultiSelectionWidget(format="checkbox")

[naro]

• added vocabulary proxy method and option to use python scripts as vocabulary source.

Additionaly to key|value and method:methodname as vocabulary source, there can be 'script:' (without script name). Script name is computed automaticaly as atse_<portal type>_<fieldname>Vocabulary.

Example:

Portal type: 'Target 1', field countryType:

atse_Target1_countryTypeVocabulary - this is name of the python script or external method [naro]

• portal_status_message is encoded to utf8 before sent to browser.

Plone 2.5 returns translated strings in unicode. [naro]

• made use of FD in atse_update consistent. Now you can

always use dictionaries. [spamsch]

• added one more test that uses atse_update to create field

[spamsch]

0.4.3 (10.10.2006)

• more tests for portal_factory madness

[spamsch]

• fixed DataGridField templates related to atseng: schema editor template

was broken after DataGridField was selected as field type [lzdych]

• ATSE tool is no longer implicitly available

[spamsch]

• fixed broken schema editor template after new schema is created

[lzdych]

• Added one more check for portal_factory types. Could not model

a test for parent of a folder being TempFolder when using PortalFactory but it seems that it fixes some errors on other instances and has no impact on running ones [spamsch]

0.4.2 (27.06.2006)

• disabled automatic creation of backup file. This configuration

is done over property atseAutomaticBackupWhenUpdateSchema in site_properties. If users want to have automatic backup then this property needs to be enabled. [spamsch]

• disabled installation of example types in config.py

If types should be installed then enable property in config.py [spamsch]

• some bugfixes to make ParentManagedSchema play nicely with

portal_factory managed types. Bug reported by Aaron VanDerlip [spamsch]

• added support for DataGridField/Widget (if DG is available)

Please read doc/DATAGRID.txt [naro]

• updated i18n, updated Czech translation

[naro]

• fixed minor bug in ReferenceField/Widget handling

[naro]

0.4.1 (08.06.2006)

• Fixed some documentation lack: Newly created objects

not longer automatically update schema from Editor since 0.4. Added extensive documentation about this change. [spamsch]

• Added tests to test changes since 0.4

[spamsch]

0.4 (19.05.2006)

• SchemaEditor:
• Added xml import and export functionality
• Bugfix for non working ordering mode
• Fixes for schema syncing - Schemas are now never synced w/o explicit user action
• Added dynamic object registering support
• Added role based field permission settings

[spamsch]

• reworked some of the template stuff to make dynamic registration of types possible

[spamsch]

0.3.3 (02.04.2006)

• added support for ImageField max_size and sizes properties
• added support for AnnotationStorage and MetadataStorage
• moved "Create index" checkbox from widget setting so the field

settings (field is indexed, not widget!) and renamed to "Searchable"

• installation of ATSchemaEditorNG now installs the schema editor

tool. Additionaly, a configlet is registered that makes the schema editor available in the Plone control panel.

• use prefs_main_template macro (instead of main macro) when

rendering schema editor

• handle the absence of a default schema gracefully by displaying a

message instead of raising an exception

• handle more ReferenceField properties like

'vocabulary_display_path_bound', 'multiValued', 'allowed_types' and 'checkbox_bound'.

• allow setting 'startup_directory' for ReferenceBrowserWidget.
• Fixed bug when computing default value for field.
• Allow selection of ReferenceWidget in addition to

ReferenceBrowserWidget for reference fields.

• added support for allowable_content_types, default_output_type

and default_content_type in TextField

0.3.2 (24.09.2005)

• SchemaEditor now overrides __setstate__ to do instance variable

initialization, if necessary.

• added special edit accessor for ReferenceFields
• schema selector bug fix

0.3.1 (unreleased)

• added support for sync'ing unmanaged and new fields from the

source code, to bring cached ATSE schemas into sync w/ any changes in the source. NOTE: must run schema_editor._migrateObjPtype() for each schema editor to convert the _obj_ptype attribute from a list to an OOBTree

0.3.0 (unreleased)

• added field, widget, and storage registry functionality
• added support for atse_managed field attribute
• schema editor now honors accessors and mutators explicitly defined

in python schema, but only if the methods are actually defined on the object

0.23 (unreleased)

• fixed handling of widget.help

0.22 (08.01.2005)

• schemas can be exported as text
• Schemas can now be managed through a tool (SchemaEditorTool.py)

and not only through a folder.

• new client mixin class ToolManagedSchema
• persistency fix in schema registration

0.21 (2.11.2004)

• added support for validators
• fixed some missing parameters in redirection URLs

0.2 (1.10.2004)

• Added developer mode: Look @ config.py for information
• Beautyfied view a little bit
• Added a selection box where you can select registered objects
• Added methods to register objects not only schematas
• Moved updateSchema method to SchemaEditor.py
• Fixed bug that caused the objects' id to be saved in unicode
• Fixed tests
• Added some field to control if widget is visible
• added schema registration infrastructure (support for multiple schemas)
• lots of API changes

0.1 (17.09.2004)

• initial release (backport from PloneCollectorNG)
• refactored