[Zope3-dev] zc.table and zc.resourcelibrary feedback

Fri Mar 10 13:45:59 EST 2006

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> The first issue is I think just something that tripped me up and
> might be fixed if we put big warning signs in the documentation.

I'll look at making this more noticeable and explaining the reasons.

> A second issue seems to me a bug in the javascript. When I use 
> StandaloneSortFormatter I can click on the title of a column to sort
> to see a sorted view. This works wonderfully well. Unfortunately the
>  javascript is a bit simplistic in that it simply adds the
> sort_on:list parameter over and over to the URL. This makes for very
> long and ugly URLs. Want me to work on a bugfix?

Please.  The current JavaScript is very much "the simplest thing that
will possibly work".

> The third issue is more like a missing feature. I was playing with
> the batching support, and I got it to work. Still, I had to write a
> bit of batching code myself and to make it fully work, I'd have to
> make sure of not showing 'previous' at the beginning of the fist
> batch, not showing 'next' at the beginning of the last batch, and the
> like.

Yes, when writing zc.table we weren't quite sure how the batching
should/would work and were using it in two independent projects.  Both
eventually grew code that's probably much like you wrote.  It would be
interesting to work on a "default batcher".

> Then finally a bit about zc.resourcelibrary that would've tripped me
> up if I hadn't looked its source yesterday. zc.resourcelibrary adds 
> resources to the <head> section of the web page by hooking in and
> adding it before the </head> tag in the output. This doesn't work if
> you have a test page that doesn't contain a <head> section at all. :)

True. :)  Gary and I came come up with a system to add pluggable 
substitutions on a per-resourcelibrary basis, but haven't had the 
time/need to implement it.  I hope Gary remembers the details and 
replies. :)
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Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation