[Grok-dev] Re: View URLs?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Kenneth Miller wrote:
> So I've got a single app with an exra Grok.Container and 
> Grok.Model. I've defined ONE index view that inherits from 
> zope.Interface so that it's available to essentially any Model/Container 
> and the app. The way this is setup allows me to use the index template 
> to provide a consistent look and feel to my app, and particularly 
> navigation.

That not really how we do consistent look and feel, though. I suggest 
writing multiple dedicated views and using one PageTemplate macro for 
the common look and feel.

Or am I missing something?

> The problem I'm currently having is that my template uses 
> view.url('this') methods to access other views, which works fine, but 
> only when you're viewing the base app. For example
> 
> The format for below is as follows:
> 
> Container/View
>    Link  -> Generated result.
> 
> App/index
>    MyPage1 -> app/mypage1
> App/Container/index
>    MyPage1 -> app/container/mypage1        when this should be pointing 
> to app/mypage1
> 
> How should I handle this? There's no url methods attached to the App 
> object.

view.url() has several signatures. One of them is

   view.url(obj, view_name)

Using this syntax you should be able to say

   view.url(grok.getSite(), 'mypage1')

> Should I rearrange the way I handle index's/templates?

Possibly ;)