[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 Newsletter: Issue 10

[Jim Fulton]

Edward Muller wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 07:40, Jim Fulton wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>> > If I could replace the
>>
>>>Python Scripts that massage data with a persistent module, I don't even 
>>>know how to address that module in public-space page templates in Zope 
>>>3. 
>>
>>Well, we need to decide that. Here are some thoughts.  There are two basic
>>styles of handling forms posts:
>>
>>1. Post to a template (e.g. ZPT) that calls the necessary Python code.
>>    This is my preference.
>>
>>2. Post to a bit of Python code that then calls the template. In this case,
>>    the Python code has to have a URL.
>>
>>If we had Zope 2-style "script python", things would work the way they
>>do now, for better or worse.
>>
>>If a form is posted to a template, then you could do the form processing
>>in one or more script tags.
>>
>>If we had content-space modules, I would expect them to be traversable.
>>You'd traverse a module to get at one of it's methods.  If you wanted to
>>call a method from a template, you'd use a path expression like:
>>"container/themodulename/thementhodname" or, in a python expression:
>>"python: container[themodulename].themethodname(...)".
>>
>>If the form is posted to the python code, then you'd use a URL like:
>>themodulename/thementhodname
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Late the the whole thing, but I have to ask, why would you want to 'Post
> to a template' and have all of the validation logic in a <script> tags?

Because it might be simpler in some cases.

> Validation logic can include things like sql calls, calls to remote
> sites, etc.

If the logic is that complex, I woudln't do it in a script
tag.  I don't think the people using script tags are going
to be writing logic that complex.

Jim

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