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2009-12-23Thread locals chapter roles.Chris McDonough
2009-12-23Roles.Chris McDonough
Explain use of renderers (somewhat redundantly) in the templates chapter.
2009-12-19More docs.Chris McDonough
2009-12-10- Added a "Special Exceptions" section to the "Views" narrativeChris McDonough
documentation chapter explaining the effect of raising ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.NotFound`` and ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.Forbidden`` from within view code. - When the ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.NotFound`` or ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.Forbidden`` error is raised from within a custom root factory or the ``factory`` of a route, the appropriate response is now sent to the requesting user agent (the result of the notfound view or the forbidden view, respectively). When these errors are raised from within a root factory, the ``context`` passed to the notfound or forbidden view will be ``None``. Also, the request will not be decorated with ``view_name``, ``subpath``, ``context``, etc. as would normally be the case if traversal had been allowed to take place.
2009-12-10Fix overriding renderers rendering.Chris McDonough
2009-12-09- Remove explanation of changing the request type in a new requestChris McDonough
event subscriber, as other predicates are now usually an easier way to get this done.
2009-11-28Fix.Chris McDonough
2009-11-28Document the request-only calling convention as the default.Chris McDonough
2009-11-28Docs.Chris McDonough
2009-11-27configurator API docs.Chris McDonough
2009-11-24Docs updates.Chris McDonough
2009-11-22Rendering tweaks.Chris McDonough
2009-11-14Spellcheck.Chris McDonough
2009-11-02- "What's New in ``repoze.bfg`` 1.1" document added to narrativeChris McDonough
documentation. - Minor typo fixes.
2009-10-22(no commit message)Chris McDonough
2009-10-22It's an envvar.Chris McDonough
2009-10-22Added ``path_info`` predicate (regex-filters on the corresponding HTTP header).Malthe Borch
2009-10-19Better disambiguation of predicate vs. non-predicate attributes.Chris McDonough
2009-10-19- Call out predicate attributes of ZCML directive within "Views"Chris McDonough
chapter.
2009-10-18Add filesystem analogy.Chris McDonough
2009-10-18- The ``@bfg_view`` decorator can now be used against a class method::Chris McDonough
from webob import Response from repoze.bfg.view import bfg_view class MyView(object): def __init__(self, context, request): self.context = context self.request = request @bfg_view(name='hello') def amethod(self): return Response('hello from %s!' % self.context) When the bfg_view decorator is used against a class method, a view is registered for the *class* (it's a "class view" where the "attr" happens to be the method they're attached to), so the view class must have a suitable constructor.
2009-10-18- More than one ``@bfg_view`` decorator may now be stacked on top ofChris McDonough
any number of others. Each invocation of the decorator registers a single view. For instance, the following combination of decorators and a function will register two views:: from repoze.bfg.view import bfg_view @bfg_view(name='edit') @bfg_view(name='change') def edit(context, request): pass This makes it possible to associate more than one view configuration for a single callable without requiring ZCML.
2009-10-14- Add ``xhr``, ``accept``, and ``header`` view configurationChris McDonough
predicates to ZCML view declaration, ZCML route declaration, and ``bfg_view`` decorator. See the ``Views`` narrative documentation chapter for more information about these predicates.
2009-10-10More renderer conversions.Chris McDonough
2009-09-30- Describe "request-only" view calling conventions inside theChris McDonough
urldispatch narrative chapter, where it's most helpful.
2009-09-30- The import of ``repoze.bfg.view.NotFound`` is deprecated in favor ofChris McDonough
``repoze.bfg.exceptions.NotFound``. The old location still functions, but emits a deprecation warning. - The import of ``repoze.bfg.security.Unauthorized`` is deprecated in favor of ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.Forbidden``. The old location still functions but emits a deprecation warning. The rename from ``Unauthorized`` to ``Forbidden`` brings parity to the the name of the exception and the system view it invokes when raised. - New ``repoze.bfg.exceptions`` module was created to house exceptions that were previously sprinkled through various modules. - An ``exceptions`` API chapter was added, documenting the new ``repoze.bfg.exceptions`` module.
2009-09-21Fix docs after updates.Chris McDonough
2009-09-17- Add a ``repoze.bfg.url.static_url`` API which is capable ofChris McDonough
generating URLs to static resources defined by the ``<static>`` ZCML directive. See the "Views" narrative chapter's section titled "Generating Static Resource URLs" for more information.
2009-09-17- Add a ``string`` renderer. This renderer converts a non-ResponseChris McDonough
return value of any view callble into a string. It is documented in the "Views" narrative chapter.
2009-09-16Excise "page" vernacular.Chris McDonough
2009-09-16Review and edit views chapter.Chris McDonough
2009-09-16Checkpoint. Not 100% test coverage.Chris McDonough
2009-09-14- The ``view`` attribute of the ``view`` ZCML directive is no longerChris McDonough
required if the ZCML directive has a ``template`` attribute.
2009-09-14- A ZCML ``view`` directive (and the associated ``bfg_view``Chris McDonough
decorator) can now accept a "wrapper" value. If a "wrapper" value is supplied, it is the value of a separate view's *name* attribute. When a view with a ``wrapper`` attribute is rendered, the "inner" view is first rendered normally. Its body is then attached to the request as "wrapped_body", and then a wrapper view name is looked up and rendered (using ``repoze.bfg.render_view_to_response``), passed the request and the context. The wrapper view is assumed to do something sensible with ``request.wrapped_body``, usually inserting its structure into some other rendered template. This feature makes it possible to specify (potentially nested) "owrap" relationships between views using only ZCML or decorators (as opposed always using ZPT METAL and analogues to wrap view renderings in outer wrappers).
2009-09-14Page->view.Chris McDonough
2009-09-14Renderings.Chris McDonough
2009-09-14- A ZCML ``view`` directive (and the associated ``bfg_view``Chris McDonough
decorator) can now accept an "attr" value. If an "attr" value is supplied, it is considered a method named of the view object to be called when the response is required. This is typically only good for views that are classes or instances (not so useful for functions, as functions typically have no methods other than ``__call__``). - A ZCML ``view`` directive (and the associated ``bfg_view`` decorator) can now accept a "template" value. If a "template" value is supplied, and the view callable returns a dictionary, the associated template is rendered with the dictionary as keyword arguments.
2009-09-06Merge multiview2 branch to HEAD.Chris McDonough
2009-08-25- The ``repoze.bfg.view.static`` class now accepts a string as itsChris McDonough
first argument ("root_dir") that represents a package-relative name e.g. ``somepackage:foo/bar/static``. This is now the preferred mechanism for spelling package-relative static paths using this class. A ``package_name`` keyword argument has been left around for backwards compatibility. If it is supplied, it will be honored. - Fixed documentation for ``repoze.bfg.view.static`` (in narrative ``Views`` chapter).
2009-08-24Added ZCML directive to serve up static files from a directory.Malthe Borch
2009-08-13- Request-only-convention examples in the "Views" narrativeChris McDonough
documentation were broken.
2009-07-08Rendering.Chris McDonough
2009-07-05Spellcheck.Chris McDonough
2009-07-03Not a publisher, a router.Chris McDonough
2009-07-03General editing walkthrough.Chris McDonough
2009-07-02- Added an "Extending" chapter to the narrative documentation whichChris McDonough
explains how to extend or modify an existing BFG application using another Python package and ZCML.
2009-06-19Edit.Chris McDonough
2009-06-18Document request-only calling convention.Chris McDonough
2009-06-11Document route_name (badly).Chris McDonough
2009-05-31- The ``request_type`` argument of ZCML ``view`` declarations andChris McDonough
``bfg_view`` decorators can now be one of the strings ``GET``, ``POST``, ``PUT``, ``DELETE``, or ``HEAD`` instead of a reference to the respective interface type imported from ``repoze.bfg.interfaces``.