[Zope] Patch to avoid hypenation variables and more

Tino Wildenhain tf@wildenhain.de
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:03:01 +0100


Hi again,

anybody had time to test this? Chances for next zope release?
Any remarks? Alternatively, btw. would be a name attribut,
which defaults to "sequence". 

Regards
Tino

Tino Wildenhain schrieb:
> 
> Michel Pelletier schrieb:
> >
> 
> > > The second problem is if you put one in-tag into another.
> > > You have to use <dtml-let> oder REQUEST.set() with variables
> > > of the outher in-tag to be able to reference them in the inner
> > > loop. The code becomes very ugly this way. So my idea was to
> > > give the in-tag an optional argument, called "prefix" to
> > > prefix all the sequence-variables with a custom identifier.
> > > So you can write:
> > >
> > > <dtml-in some_sequence prefix="outer_">
> > >    <dtml-in some_other_sequence>
> > >      <dtml-var outer_sequence_item>:<dtml-var sequence_item>
> > >    </dtml-in the inner sequence>
> > > </dtml-in the outer sequence>
> > >
> > > What do you think about this?
> >
> > It's cool.  Your patches are big and therefore, naturally, are a bit
> > worrisome to us in terms of checking them into the core.  Do you have a
> > set of test DTML scripts that verify your patch?  Say, a set of scripts
> > that verifies backwards compatibity, and a set of scripts that verifies
> > the new functionality?  I would suggest even investigating "ZUnit" and
> > creating DTML unit tests.  Then we would *really* love you.  ;)
> >
> Have to find this ZUnit... ;)
> Ok, I made some further tests and improvements. There was a mistake
> (ok, it comes from variables spilled randomly over DT_In.py and
> DT_InSV.py ;)
> with the prefix. In some cases it wasnt there as supposed.
> 
> Now all the prefix-handling should be ok. I've made an yet simple
> test-suite, all available thru
> http://www.zope.org/Members/tino/
> (See "Patch for <dtml-in>" there)
> 
> Note: the prefix prepends only the in-tags own variables. Any attribute
> coming from the sequence is untouched. This is also true for statistic
> variables and the magic "mapping" symbol.
> 
> While it could easy be implemented, I think prefixing all attributes is
> not such a good idea. If you are ilterating over database queries you
> can rename the attributes there.
>