[Twisted-Python] WOVEN Question

Mon Jun 23 09:59:11 MDT 2003

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:50, Alex Levy wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:01:27AM +0200, Philippe Lafoucri?re wrote:
> -- snip --
> > macros that could expand when I want
> -- snip --
> 
> I was making the same complaint in #twisted a couple weeks ago, and was
> pointed to a wonderful piece of code: woven.widgets.ExpandMacro.  Check it
> out; I've included a brief example below.
> 
> I have a macro file:
> 
> -- template.xhtml --
> 
> <html>
> <head macro="head">
>   <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"/>
>   <title slot="title">Fill me</title>
> </head>
> <body macro="body">
>   <h1>My site</h1>
>   <div>Nav bar goes here</div>
>   <div slot="content">Content</div>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> -- end --
> 
> ...and then my Page does something like this:
> 
> -- mypage.py --
> 
> class MyPage(page.Page):
> 
>   template = """
>   <html>
>   <head view="headMacro">
>     <title fill-slot="title">My title</title>
>   </head>
>   <body view="bodyMacro">
>     <div fill-slot="content">Whatever</div>
>   </body>
>   </html>"""
>   
>   def wvfactory_headMacro(self, request, node, m):
>     return widgets.ExpandMacro(m,
>                                macroFileDirectory = '/path/to/templates',
>                                macroFile = 'template.xhtml',
>                                macroName = 'head')
> 
>   def wvfactory_bodyMacro(self, request, node, m):
>     return widgets.ExpandMacro(m,
>                                macroFileDirectory = '/path/to/templates',
>                                macroFile = 'template.xhtml',
>                                macroName = 'body')
> 
> -- end --
> 
> I really like this functionality, and I think it should be pointed out in
> the documentation.  Dunno if that's already done for 1.0.6 docs, but the
> above code works with Twisted 1.0.5.
> 
> Hope this helps.

A LOT :)
It's similar to what Itamar pointed in the API doc.

Hope most of the woven Magic will be explained in 1.0.6 doc !
I definitly want to try it now ...

BTW, thank you all

Philippe