[Zope-CMF] Easy Content-Add script

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 07:10  AM, Jan Torben Heuer wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 13. November 2001 00:17 schrieb Jeffrey P Shell:
>
>> And I designed the app so that the users never saw the
>> 'folder_contents' view, or the CMF "Add" page (after much arm
>> wrestling with various action providers).
>
> That sounds nice.
> Do you offer me a part form your Sourcecode? Or is that Tool itsself
> OpenSource?

I can probably offer part of the source, hoping that it doesn't get 
too mangled in the mail.  It's not open source, but it was for a 
customer (and the project got pulled before it could be completed).

class FilmTool(UniqueObject, SimpleItem):
	id = 'film_tool'
	meta_type = '...Film Tool'

### all code below belongs to the class, it's just outdented
### for mailing purposes.

### Film submission and validation helpers and policies
_killnoise = re.compile(r'\W').sub  # non-alphanumeric chars

security.declarePublic('generateFilmId')
def generateFilmId(self, filmtitle, repl='', location=None):
     """\
     Remove all non-alphanumeric characters.  This method may
     eventually be expanded to do more advanced ID generation.
     """
     return self._killnoise(repl, filmtitle).lower()

security.declarePublic('createFilm')
def createFilm(self, newfilm, contact, comments="", target="films"):
     """\
     Instantiate a new film object in the target location.
     """
     if not newfilm.title:
         raise ValueError('Film MUST have a title')

     ### Get all the needed tools
     purl = getToolByName(self, 'portal_url')
     workflow = getToolByName(self, 'portal_workflow')
     typestool = getToolByName(self, 'portal_types')
     discussion = getToolByName(self, 'portal_discussion')
     membership = getToolByName(self, 'portal_membership')

     ### Get the destination (where the film wil be created)
     proot = purl.getPortalObject()
     dest = proot.unrestrictedTraverse(target)

     ### Instantiate the film, and populate fields and Contact info
     film_id = self.generateFilmId(newfilm.title)
     filmtype = typestool.getTypeInfo('Film')
     obj = filmtype.constructInstance(dest, film_id)
     obj.edit(...))
     obj.setSubmitter(...)

     ### Tack on the comments from the submitter
     if comments:
         talkback = discussion.getDiscussionFor(obj)
         if membership.isAnonymousUser():
             creator = 'Submitter (%s, %s)' % (contact.lastname,
                                               contact.firstname)
         else:
             creator = membership.getAuthenticatedMember().getUserName()
         talkback.createReply(
             title='Submitters Comments', text=comments,
             Creator=creator
             )

     obj.indexObject()
     workflow.notifyCreated(obj)
     return obj