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| author | Chris McDonough <chrism@plope.com> | 2013-03-23 03:08:04 -0400 |
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| committer | Chris McDonough <chrism@plope.com> | 2013-03-23 03:08:04 -0400 |
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diff --git a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/definingviews.rst b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/definingviews.rst index 8714927c3..9894bcb08 100644 --- a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/definingviews.rst +++ b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/definingviews.rst @@ -6,19 +6,13 @@ A :term:`view callable` in a :app:`Pyramid` application is typically a simple Python function that accepts a single parameter named :term:`request`. A view callable is assumed to return a :term:`response` object. -The request object passed to every view that is called as the result of a -route match has an attribute named ``matchdict`` that contains the elements -placed into the URL by the ``pattern`` of a ``route`` statement. For -instance, if a call to :meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.add_route` in -``__init__.py`` had the pattern ``{one}/{two}``, and the URL at -``http://example.com/foo/bar`` was invoked, matching this pattern, the -``matchdict`` dictionary attached to the request passed to the view would -have a ``'one'`` key with the value ``'foo'`` and a ``'two'`` key with the -value ``'bar'``. - -The source code for this tutorial stage can be browsed at -`http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/1.3-branch/docs/tutorials/wiki2/src/views/ -<http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/1.3-branch/docs/tutorials/wiki2/src/views/>`_. +The request object has a dictionary as an attribute named ``matchdict``. +A ``matchdict`` maps the placeholders in the matching URL ``pattern`` to the substrings +of the :term:`request` ed URL. For instance, if a call to +:meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.add_route` has the pattern +``{one}/{two}``, and a user visits ``http://example.com/foo/bar``, our pattern would be +matched and the ``matchdict`` would look like: ``{'one':'foo', 'two':'bar'}`` + Declaring Dependencies in Our ``setup.py`` File =============================================== @@ -36,7 +30,7 @@ Open ``tutorial/setup.py`` and edit it to look like the following: .. literalinclude:: src/views/setup.py :linenos: :language: python - :emphasize-lines: 17 + :emphasize-lines: 19 (Only the highlighted line needs to be added.) @@ -55,14 +49,14 @@ On UNIX: .. code-block:: text $ cd tutorial - $ ../bin/python setup.py develop + $ $VENV/bin/python setup.py develop On Windows: .. code-block:: text c:\pyramidtut> cd tutorial - c:\pyramidtut\tutorial> ..\Scripts\python setup.py develop + c:\pyramidtut\tutorial> %VENV%\Scripts\python setup.py develop Success executing this command will end with a line to the console something like:: @@ -129,7 +123,7 @@ The ``view_page`` view function ------------------------------- ``view_page()`` is used to display a single page of our -wiki. It renders the :term:`ReStructuredText` body of a page (stored as +wiki. It renders the :term:`reStructuredText` body of a page (stored as the ``data`` attribute of a ``Page`` model object) as HTML. Then it substitutes an HTML anchor for each *WikiWord* reference in the rendered HTML using a compiled regular expression. @@ -155,10 +149,9 @@ We then generate an edit URL (because it's easier to do here than in the template), and we return a dictionary with a number of arguments. The fact that ``view_page()`` returns a dictionary (as opposed to a :term:`response` object) is a cue to :app:`Pyramid` that it should try to use a :term:`renderer` -associated with the view configuration to render a template. In our case, -the template which will be rendered will be the ``templates/view.pt`` -template, as indicated in the ``@view_config`` decorator that is applied to -``view_page()``. +associated with the view configuration to render a response. In our case, +the renderer used will be the ``templates/view.pt`` template, as indicated in +the ``@view_config`` decorator that is applied to ``view_page()``. The ``add_page`` view function ------------------------------ @@ -290,7 +283,7 @@ Our templates name a single static asset named ``pylons.css``. We don't need to create this file within our package's ``static`` directory because it was provided at the time we created the project. 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/wiki2/src/views/tutorial/static/pylons.css>`_. +<https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/blob/master/docs/tutorials/wiki2/src/views/tutorial/static/pylons.css>`_. This CSS file will be accessed via e.g. ``http://localhost:6543/static/pylons.css`` by virtue of the call to |
