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

[Edward Muller]

Well apparently I need to spend some time looking through zope 3 and
making myself more familiar with it and it's idea of scripter/developer
separation.

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 05:58, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 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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