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-==============
-Defining Views
-==============
-
-A :term:`view callable` in a traversal-based :mod:`pyramid`
-application is typically a simple Python function that accepts two
-parameters: :term:`context`, and :term:`request`. A view callable is
-assumed to return a :term:`response` object.
-
-.. note:: A :mod:`pyramid` view can also be defined as callable
- which accepts *one* arguments: a :term:`request`. You'll see this
- one-argument pattern used in other :mod:`pyramid` tutorials and
- applications. Either calling convention will work in any
- :mod:`pyramid` application; the calling conventions can be used
- interchangeably as necessary. In :term:`traversal` based
- applications, such as this tutorial, the context is used frequently
- within the body of a view method, so it makes sense to use the
- two-argument syntax in this application. However, in :term:`url
- dispatch` based applications, the context object is rarely used in
- the view body itself, so within code that uses URL-dispatch-only,
- it's common to define views as callables that accept only a request
- to avoid the visual "noise".
-
-We're going to define several :term:`view callable` functions then
-wire them into :mod:`pyramid` using some :term:`view
-configuration` via :term:`ZCML`.
-
-The source code for this tutorial stage can be browsed via
-`http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/master/docs/tutorials/wiki/src/views/
-<http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/master/docs/tutorials/wiki/src/views/>`_.
-
-Adding View Functions
-=====================
-
-We're going to add four :term:`view callable` functions to our
-``views.py`` module. One view (named ``view_wiki``) will display the
-wiki itself (it will answer on the root URL), another named
-``view_page`` will display an individual page, another named
-``add_page`` will allow a page to be added, and a final view named
-``edit_page`` will allow a page to be edited.
-
-.. note::
-
- There is nothing automagically special about the filename
- ``views.py``. A project may have many views throughout its codebase
- in arbitrarily-named files. Files implementing views often have
- ``view`` in their filenames (or may live in a Python subpackage of
- your application package named ``views``), but this is only by
- convention.
-
-The ``view_wiki`` view function
--------------------------------
-
-The ``view_wiki`` function will be configured to respond as the
-default view of a ``Wiki`` model object. It always redirects to the
-``Page`` object named "FrontPage". It returns an instance of the
-:class:`webob.exc.HTTPFound` class (instances of which implement the
-WebOb :term:`response` interface), and the
-:func:`pyramid.url.model_url` API.
-:func:`pyramid.url.model_url` constructs a URL to the ``FrontPage``
-page (e.g. ``http://localhost:6543/FrontPage``), and uses it as the
-"location" of the HTTPFound response, forming an HTTP redirect.
-
-The ``view_page`` view function
--------------------------------
-
-The ``view_page`` function will be configured to respond as the
-default view of a ``Page`` object. The ``view_page`` function renders
-the :term:`ReStructuredText` body of a page (stored as the ``data``
-attribute of the context passed to the view; the context will be a
-Page object) as HTML. Then it substitutes an HTML anchor for each
-*WikiWord* reference in the rendered HTML using a compiled regular
-expression.
-
-The curried function named ``check`` is used as the first argument to
-``wikiwords.sub``, indicating that it should be called to provide a
-value for each WikiWord match found in the content. If the wiki (our
-page's ``__parent__``) already contains a page with the matched
-WikiWord name, the ``check`` function generates a view link to be used
-as the substitution value and returns it. If the wiki does not
-already contain a page with with the matched WikiWord name, the
-function generates an "add" link as the substitution value and returns
-it.
-
-As a result, the ``content`` variable is now a fully formed bit of
-HTML containing various view and add links for WikiWords based on the
-content of our current page object.
-
-We then generate an edit URL (because it's easier to do here than in
-the template), and we wrap up a number of arguments in a dictionary
-and return it.
-
-The arguments we wrap into a dictionary include ``page``, ``content``,
-and ``edit_url``. As a result, the *template* associated with this
-view callable will be able to use these names to perform various
-rendering tasks. The template associated with this view callable will
-be a template which lives in ``templates/view.pt``, which we'll
-associate with this view via the :term:`view configuration` which
-lives in the ``configure.zcml`` file.
-
-Note the contrast between this view callable and the ``view_wiki``
-view callable. In the ``view_wiki`` view callable, we return a
-:term:`response` object. In the ``view_page`` view callable, we
-return a *dictionary*. It is *always* fine to return a
-:term:`response` object from a :mod:`pyramid` view. Returning a
-dictionary is allowed only when there is a :term:`renderer` associated
-with the view callable in the view configuration.
-
-The ``add_page`` view function
-------------------------------
-
-The ``add_page`` function will be invoked when a user clicks on a
-WikiWord which isn't yet represented as a page in the system. The
-``check`` function within the ``view_page`` view generates URLs to
-this view. It also acts as a handler for the form that is generated
-when we want to add a page object. The ``context`` of the
-``add_page`` view is always a Wiki object (*not* a Page object).
-
-The request :term:`subpath` in :mod:`pyramid` is the sequence of
-names that are found *after* the view name in the URL segments given
-in the ``PATH_INFO`` of the WSGI request as the result of
-:term:`traversal`. If our add view is invoked via,
-e.g. ``http://localhost:6543/add_page/SomeName``, the :term:`subpath`
-will be a tuple: ``('SomeName',)``.
-
-The add view takes the zeroth element of the subpath (the wiki page
-name), and aliases it to the name attribute in order to know the name
-of the page we're trying to add.
-
-If the view rendering is *not* a result of a form submission (if the
-expression ``'form.submitted' in request.params`` is ``False``), the
-view renders a template. To do so, it generates a "save url" which
-the template use as the form post URL during rendering. We're lazy
-here, so we're trying to use the same template (``templates/edit.pt``)
-for the add view as well as the page edit view. To do so, we create a
-dummy Page object in order to satisfy the edit form's desire to have
-*some* page object exposed as ``page``, and we'll render the template
-to a response.
-
-If the view rendering *is* a result of a form submission (if the
-expression ``'form.submitted' in request.params`` is ``True``), we
-scrape the page body from the form data, create a Page object using
-the name in the subpath and the page body, and save it into "our
-context" (the wiki) using the ``__setitem__`` method of the
-context. We then redirect back to the ``view_page`` view (the default
-view for a page) for the newly created page.
-
-The ``edit_page`` view function
--------------------------------
-
-The ``edit_page`` function will be invoked when a user clicks the
-"Edit this Page" button on the view form. It renders an edit form but
-it also acts as the handler for the form it renders. The ``context``
-of the ``edit_page`` view will *always* be a Page object (never a Wiki
-object).
-
-If the view execution is *not* a result of a form submission (if the
-expression ``'form.submitted' in request.params`` is ``False``), the
-view simply renders the edit form, passing the request, the page
-object, and a save_url which will be used as the action of the
-generated form.
-
-If the view execution *is* a result of a form submission (if the
-expression ``'form.submitted' in request.params`` is ``True``), the
-view grabs the ``body`` element of the request parameter and sets it
-as the ``data`` attribute of the page context. It then redirects to
-the default view of the context (the page), which will always be the
-``view_page`` view.
-
-Viewing the Result of Our Edits to ``views.py``
-===============================================
-
-The result of all of our edits to ``views.py`` will leave it looking
-like this:
-
-.. literalinclude:: src/views/tutorial/views.py
- :linenos:
- :language: python
-
-Adding Templates
-================
-
-Most view callables we've added expected to be rendered via a
-:term:`template`. Each template is a :term:`Chameleon` template. The
-default templating system in :mod:`pyramid` is a variant of
-:term:`ZPT` provided by Chameleon. These templates will live in the
-``templates`` directory of our tutorial package.
-
-The ``view.pt`` Template
-------------------------
-
-The ``view.pt`` template is used for viewing a single wiki page. It
-is used by the ``view_page`` view function. It should have a div that
-is "structure replaced" with the ``content`` value provided by the
-view. It should also have a link on the rendered page that points at
-the "edit" URL (the URL which invokes the ``edit_page`` view for the
-page being viewed).
-
-Once we're done with the ``view.pt`` template, it will look a lot like
-the below:
-
-.. literalinclude:: src/views/tutorial/templates/view.pt
- :linenos:
- :language: xml
-
-.. note:: The names available for our use in a template are always
- those that are present in the dictionary returned by the view
- callable. But our templates make use of a ``request`` object that
- none of our tutorial views return in their dictionary. This value
- appears as if "by magic". However, ``request`` is one of several
- names that are available "by default" in a template when a template
- renderer is used. See :ref:`chameleon_template_renderers` for more
- information about other names that are available by default in a
- template when a Chameleon template is used as a renderer.
-
-The ``edit.pt`` Template
-------------------------
-
-The ``edit.pt`` template is used for adding and editing a wiki page.
-It is used by the ``add_page`` and ``edit_page`` view functions. It
-should display a page containing a form that POSTs back to the
-"save_url" argument supplied by the view. The form should have a
-"body" textarea field (the page data), and a submit button that has
-the name "form.submitted". The textarea in the form should be filled
-with any existing page data when it is rendered.
-
-Once we're done with the ``edit.pt`` template, it will look a lot like
-the below:
-
-.. literalinclude:: src/views/tutorial/templates/edit.pt
- :linenos:
- :language: xml
-
-Static Resources
-----------------
-
-Our templates name a single static resource named ``style.css``. We
-need to create this and place it in a file named ``style.css`` within
-our package's ``templates/static`` directory. This file is a little
-too long to replicate within the body of this guide, however it is
-available `online
-<http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/blob/master/docs/tutorials/wiki/src/views/tutorial/templates/static/default.css>`_.
-
-This CSS file will be accessed via
-e.g. ``http://localhost:6543/static/style.css`` by virtue of the
-``static`` directive we've defined in the ``configure.zcml`` file.
-Any number and type of static resources can be placed in this
-directory (or subdirectories) and are just referred to by URL within
-templates.
-
-Testing the Views
-=================
-
-We'll modify our ``tests.py`` file, adding tests for each view
-function we added above. As a result, we'll *delete* the
-``ViewTests`` test in the file, and add four other test classes:
-``ViewWikiTests``, ``ViewPageTests``, ``AddPageTests``, and
-``EditPageTests``. These test the ``view_wiki``, ``view_page``,
-``add_page``, and ``edit_page`` views respectively.
-
-Once we're done with the ``tests.py`` module, it will look a lot like
-the below:
-
-.. literalinclude:: src/views/tutorial/tests.py
- :linenos:
- :language: python
-
-Running the Tests
-=================
-
-We can run these tests by using ``setup.py test`` in the same way we
-did in :ref:`running_tests`. Assuming our shell's current working
-directory is the "tutorial" distribution directory:
-
-On UNIX:
-
-.. code-block:: text
-
- $ ../bin/python setup.py test -q
-
-On Windows:
-
-.. code-block:: text
-
- c:\bigfntut\tutorial> ..\Scripts\python setup.py test -q
-
-The expected result looks something like:
-
-.. code-block:: text
-
- .........
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Ran 9 tests in 0.203s
-
- OK
-
-Mapping Views to URLs in ``configure.zcml``
-===========================================
-
-The ``configure.zcml`` file contains ``view`` declarations which serve
-to map URLs (via :term:`traversal`) to view functions. This is also
-known as :term:`view configuration`. You'll need to add four ``view``
-declarations to ``configure.zcml``.
-
-#. Add a declaration which maps the "Wiki" class in our ``models.py``
- file to the view named ``view_wiki`` in our ``views.py`` file with
- no view name. This is the default view for a Wiki. It does not
- use a ``renderer`` because the ``view_wiki`` view callable always
- returns a *response* object rather than a dictionary.
-
-#. Add a declaration which maps the "Wiki" class in our ``models.py``
- file to the view named ``add_page`` in our ``views.py`` file with
- the view name ``add_page``. Associate this view with the
- ``templates/edit.pt`` template file via the ``renderer`` attribute.
- This view will use the :term:`Chameleon` ZPT renderer configured
- with the ``templates/edit.pt`` template to render non-*response*
- return values from the ``add_page`` view. This is the add view for
- a new Page.
-
-#. Add a declaration which maps the "Page" class in our ``models.py``
- file to the view named ``view_page`` in our ``views.py`` file with
- no view name. Associate this view with the ``templates/view.pt``
- template file via the ``renderer`` attribute. This view will use
- the :term:`Chameleon` ZPT renderer configured with the
- ``templates/view.pt`` template to render non-*response* return
- values from the ``view_page`` view. This is the default view for a
- Page.
-
-#. Add a declaration which maps the "Page" class in our ``models.py``
- file to the view named ``edit_page`` in our ``views.py`` file with
- the view name ``edit_page``. Associate this view with the
- ``templates/edit.pt`` template file via the ``renderer`` attribute.
- This view will use the :term:`Chameleon` ZPT renderer configured
- with the ``templates/edit.pt`` template to render non-*response*
- return values from the ``edit_page`` view. This is the edit view
- for a page.
-
-As a result of our edits, the ``configure.zcml`` file should look
-something like so:
-
-.. literalinclude:: src/views/tutorial/configure.zcml
- :linenos:
- :language: xml
-
-Examining ``tutorial.ini``
-==========================
-
-Let's take a look at our ``tutorial.ini`` file. The contents of the
-file are as follows:
-
-.. literalinclude:: src/models/tutorial.ini
- :linenos:
- :language: ini
-
-The WSGI Pipeline
------------------
-
-Within ``tutorial.ini``, note the existence of a ``[pipeline:main]``
-section which specifies our WSGI pipeline. This "pipeline" will be
-served up as our WSGI application. As far as the WSGI server is
-concerned the pipeline *is* our application. Simpler configurations
-don't use a pipeline: instead they expose a single WSGI application as
-"main". Our setup is more complicated, so we use a pipeline.
-
-``egg:repoze.zodbconn#closer`` is at the "top" of the pipeline. This
-is a piece of middleware which closes the ZODB connection opened by
-the PersistentApplicationFinder at the end of the request.
-
-``egg:repoze.tm#tm`` is the second piece of middleware in the
-pipeline. This commits a transaction near the end of the request
-unless there's an exception raised.
-
-Adding an Element to the Pipeline
----------------------------------
-
-Let's add a piece of middleware to the WSGI pipeline:
-``egg:Paste#evalerror`` middleware which displays debuggable errors in
-the browser while you're developing (not recommended for deployment).
-Let's insert evalerror into the pipeline right below
-"egg:repoze.zodbconn#closer", making our resulting ``tutorial.ini``
-file look like so:
-
-.. literalinclude:: src/views/tutorial.ini
- :linenos:
- :language: ini
-
-Viewing the Application in a Browser
-====================================
-
-Once we've set up the WSGI pipeline properly, we can finally examine
-our application in a browser. The views we'll try are as follows:
-
-- Visiting ``http://localhost:6543/`` in a browser invokes the
- ``view_wiki`` view. This always redirects to the ``view_page`` view
- of the FrontPage page object.
-
-- Visiting ``http://localhost:6543/FrontPage/`` in a browser invokes
- the ``view_page`` view of the front page page object. This is
- because it's the *default view* (a view without a ``name``) for Page
- objects.
-
-- Visiting ``http://localhost:6543/FrontPage/edit_page`` in a browser
- invokes the edit view for the front page object.
-
-- Visiting ``http://localhost:6543/add_page/SomePageName`` in a
- browser invokes the add view for a page.
-
-- To generate an error, visit ``http://localhost:6543/add_page`` which
- will generate an ``IndexError`` for the expression
- ``request.subpath[0]``. You'll see an interactive traceback
- facility provided by evalerror.
-
-
-
-
-