[Zope] Minimal product refresh ?

Mon Jan 19 04:07:55 EST 2004

Hello !

After zope zpt, and mod_python testing I want to test the zope's
product creation.

I've been used the minimal product to test it.
My product dir is:

c:\zope\website\lib\python\Products\minimal\
2004.01.19.  09:58    <DIR>          .
2004.01.19.  09:58    <DIR>          ..
2004.01.19.  09:54             1 948 minimal.py
2004.01.19.  09:36                 2 refresh.txt
2004.01.19.  09:34               472 __init__.py

The product files are:
------------------------------------------------------------------
__init__.py:

import minimal

def initialize(context):
    """Initialize the minimal product.
    This makes the object apear in the product list"""
    context.registerClass(
        minimal.minimal,
        constructors = (
            minimal.manage_addMinimalForm, # The first method is
                                           # called when someone
                                           # adds the product
            minimal.manage_addMinimal
        )
    )

------------------------------------------------------------------
from OFS import SimpleItem

params=[]

class minimal(SimpleItem.SimpleItem):

    "minimal object"

    meta_type = 'minimal'

    manage_options = (
        {'label': 'View', 'action': 'index_html'},
    )

    def __init__(self, id):
        "initialise a new instance of Minimal"
        self.id = id

    def index_html(self):
        "used to view content of the object"
        params.append(len(params))
        s='The array is: '+str(params)
        s='<html><body>Hello World<br>%s</body></html>'%s
        return s

    def counter(self):
        "Shows the numbers from 1 to 10"
        result = '<html><body>Counts from from 0 to 10<br>\n'
        for i in range(10):
            result = result + str(i) + '<br>\n'
        result = result + '</body></html>\n'
        return result

    def squareForm(self):
        "User input form for the suare method"
        return """<html>
        <body>
        Please type the number you want squared:<br>
        <form name="form" action="square"><br>
        <input type="text" name="value:int"><br>
        <input type="submit" value="Square">
        </form>
        </body>
        </html>"""

    def square(self, value=0):
        "Returns the input value squared"
        return """<html><body><b>The result of %s squared is:</b>
        %s</body></html>""" % (str(value), str(value*value))

# Administrative pages

def manage_addMinimal(self, id, RESPONSE=None):
    "Add a Minimal to a folder."
    self._setObject(id, minimal(id))
    RESPONSE.redirect('index_html')

def manage_addMinimalForm(self):
    "The form used to get the instance' id from the user."
    return """<html>
    <body>
    Please type the id of the minimal instance:<br>
    <form name="form" action="manage_addMinimal"><br>
    <input type="text" name="id"><br>
    <input type="submit" value="add">
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>"""
------------------------------------------------------------------

The questions are:

1.)
 How to I use this product in my site ?
 I try with this:
   a.) I've been create an object of the product minimal in the zope's
       root.
   b.) I've been create an index_html:
       <p tal:replace="structure python: here.minimal.index_html()"/>
 But I think, it is not the normal way of the usage... :-(

2.)
 Why the product don't refreshing ?
 I write some things to file (minimal.py), and I fast reload the page
 with many F5, but it is not refreshed. Why ???

The Zope version is 2.6, in winxp platform.

Thanx for any advance.

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