[Zope-dev] ZPublisher: using zope.formlib and z3c.form in Zope 2

[Martin Aspeli]

Hi,

On 2 March 2011 08:43, yuppie <y.2011 at wcm-solutions.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> ZPublisher.Publish and zope.publisher.publish process form inputs
> differently. Zope 2 returns encoded strings unchanged if no converters
> are specified. zope.publisher converts encoded strings to unicode.
>
> One major reason why zope.formlib and z3c.form can't be used directly in
> Zope 2 is the fact they expect decoded form values. five.formlib uses
> special base classes and plone.z3cform monkey patches the base classes
> in z3c.form.
>
>
> Proposal:
>
> - Products.Five.browser.decode should be moved to ZPublisher.
> processInputs and setPageEncoding are publisher related code.

+1

> - After traversal and before calling the object
> ZPublisher.Publish.publish should figure out if the object expects
> zope.publisher behavior. Either we use a new interface for this or we
> use zope.publisher.interfaces.browser.IBrowserPage: AFAICS in Zope 2
> land only zope.formlib and z3c.form based views implement IBrowserPage.

Isn't this in zope.browserpage now?

> - If the object implements that interface, the request is post processed
> using processInputs and setPageEncoding.

+1

> - plone.z3cform uses a modified version of processInputs and doesn't use
> setPageEncoding. Can anybody explain why? I guess that are no z3c.form
> specific reasons. Maybe the changes can be merged back to Zope?

processInputs() in Five was very buggy. I thought I'd merged those
changes into Zope 2?

I don't know what setPageEncoding() does, though.

Martin