At 21:40 2003-04-14 +0200, Clemens Robbenhaar said:
Hi Johan, a possibly very stupid question:
Hi Clemens, I don't believe there is such a thing ;-)
So: <form method="dispatcher_url"> <input type="submit" name="do_this:dispatcher" value=" Do This "> </form>
would add REQUEST['dispatcher']='do_this'
and
<form action="dispatcher_url"> <input type="submit" name="this_one" value=" Do This "> </form>
currently adds REQUEST['this_one']=' Do This '
thus instead of:
This would then be easy for the dispatcher method at 'dispatcher_url' to handle in a if-else structure (etc):
if REQUEST['dispatcher']=='do_this': return self.do_this() elif REQUEST['dispatcher']=='do_that': return self.do_that() else: return self.just_show_it()
one could say:
if REQUEST.get('this_one',None): return self.do_this() elif REQUEST.get('that_one',None): return self.do_that() else: return self.just_show_it()
Maybe I have overlooked something, but it looks like the functionality can be obtained with the current implementation without adding one more magic ':', doesn't it?
Fair point. You wouldn't get the possibility to extract the name of the operation to be performed, try if it exist and execute it: method_id = REQUEST.get('dispatcher') method = getattr(self, method_id, None) Which I probably going to need for my dispatcher class. One other thing I noticed, but which I'm not sure is useful, is the possibility of submitting several method_ids: <input type="hidden" name="dispatcher" value="always_do"> <input type="submit" name="do_this:dispatcher" value=" Do This (and more) "> This might very well be something that only I want (so I'll probably end up "hot-patching" it anyway) It would be nice to have some kind of plug-in capabilities in the ZPublisher form field handling. It would make it possible to handle custom fields like something like Formulator Field in an more integrated fashion. Regards, Johan Carlsson -- Easy Publisher Developers Team Johan Carlsson johanc@easypublisher.com Mail: Birkagatan 9 SE-113 36 Stockholm Sweden Phone +46-(0)8-31 24 94 Fax +46-(0)8-673 04 44 Mobil +46-(0)70-558 25 24 http://www.easypublisher.com