[Grok-dev] Re: Using martian to load schemata

[Martijn Faassen]

Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> What I think might not work in your example is that there are things
> that happen at "import time" which you really can't work around, for
> instance, if I have a grok.Form with grok.AutoFields(IPage) interface,
> either "model('page.xml') will have to work immediately (which means
> not being able to rely on the C.A. being set up), or the AutoFields
> call won't find any actual fields on your interface.

Yes, this is a good point. grok.Fields() (or formlib FormFields) work 
during import time, so you can't get the schema yet.

You can work around this, but you'd need to make it a property:

class MyForm(grok.EditForm):
     @property
     def form_fields(self):
          return grok.Fields(IMySchema)

This way grok.Fields will only be executed during runtime, as the form 
is being rendered.

We run into similar problems when generating a schema from RDB schema. 
It's unfortunate the form code assumes the schemas need to exist already 
during import time. I wonder whether z3c.form has a better way?

Regards,

Martijn