On Jun 20, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
Eric Steele wrote:
If I include something along the lines of <tal:block tal:replace="structure context" /> in my view template, someObject renders in the browser. The problem is that none of what's in there appears to recognize the interface that my view provides.
It's not at all clear what you mean here or what the problem is that you're trying to describe.
How about a concrete, minimal example?
(I also had some success creating a page template on the fly, injecting the current content object's template code into it along with whatever else I wanted to display, but that just feels icky and runs afoul of the
"feels icky" is an understatement. How about woefully inefficient, not to mention insane? You could probably make it a bit worse by getting the template code from the request if you really tried hard ;-)
Oh, come now. That's just silly... But really, the only reason I mentioned it was in hopes of goading someone into taking action against it. :-P Ok, a better example... I'm going to start with Plone since that's what this is eventually geared towards. My hoped-for goal is this...If I view the front page of the site normally (http://localhost:8080/site/front-page), I'll see it rendered with normally. If I view it through my browser view (http://localhost:8080/site/front-page/@@viewletmanagertest ), it'll render the same bit of content (front-page), but using the render method of the viewletmanagers I've adapted to the IViewletManagerTestView that my view provides. So in a stripped down example... I'd define my interface, view and new viewletmanager: class IViewletManagerTestView(Interface): pass class ViewletManagerTestView(BrowserView): implements(IViewletManagerTestView) template = ViewPageTemplateFile('viewletmanagertest.pt') def __init__(self, context, request): self.context = context self.request = request def __call__(self): return self.template(self.context, self.request) class OverridingViewletManager(ViewletManagerBase): implements(IViewletManager) def render(self): return "It worked!" Register my adapters locally: <adapter name="plone.portalfooter" factory="myapp.browser.viewletmanagertest.OverridingViewletManager" for_="zope.interface.Interface zope.publisher.interfaces.browser.IBrowserRequest myapp.browser.viewletmanagertest.IViewletManagerTestView" provides="plone.app.layout.viewlets.interfaces.IPortalFooter"/> and create a template that shows 1) a call to a viewletmanager to make sure the adaptation is working at all 2) the content object that the view is called on <h3>Footer:</h3> <div tal:replace="structure provider:plone.portalfooter" /> <h3>Content object in context:</h3> <tal:block tal:replace="structure context" /> So now when I call that view (http://localhost:8080/site/front-page/@@viewletmanagertest ), I should see Footer: It worked! and then the content object rendered with "It worked" in place of the portalfooter viewletmanager. Instead, I just see the Footer: It worked! and then the content object rendered normally. The adaptation is working for the view, otherwise that first "it worked!" wouldn't show up. The problem lies in calling the content object through that <tal:block tal:replace="structure context" /> bit. If I place the page template's code directly into my view template, everything works perfectly. I hope that's at least somewhat of a better explanation of what I'm after. Eric