[Zope3-Users] Re: Simple Add example for z3c.forms.subforms

[Stephan Richter]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 13:47, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> My problem is that the doctest seems to lack an important part, namely the
> creation of the subobject and the assignment to the parent object. Where
> would I do this?

I would create a blank object and then use the sub-editform.

> I assume, I'd need a create() method - but where? In the subform? Or parent
> form? Or both - one for the sub-object, one for the parent?

That's up to you. I think having a sub-object addform makes things much more 
complicated than you have to. As I said above, I would create a blank object 
and use the edit subform.

> However, I don't really like this **self.owner.widgets.extract()[0]
> statement, to my mind there should be a prettier way? Moreover, maybe the
> owner object should be created in the OwnerAddForm instead of the
> CarAddForm?

I think this would be better than doing it in the parent. Either way you have 
to write an add subform, which is tedious at best.

> What I moreover don't understand in the subform.txt example is why the
> OwnerAddForm is of type form.EditForm instead of e.g. form.Form and the
> CarAddForm is not form.AddForm. This would also save the redefinition of
> updateWidgets(), I think.

Because I don;t want to write an addform for subforms. The problem is that 
things start to multiply.

Regards,
Stephan
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