[Zope3-Users] Custom addform and object creation error

[Reuben Christie]

Hi, cliff,
Could you please explain me how to create custom edit form for archetype ? i
guess thats what you have done when you said customAddForm
Quoting Cliff Ford <Cliff.Ford at ed.ac.uk>:

> To answer my own question, and for the benefit of anyone else who wants
> to customise an addform:
>
> Even though I have a class with a createAndAdd method I found that it
> was necessary to include the content_factory directive in the addform
> configuration as well as the class and template directives.
>
> I copied the createAndAdd method from ../zope/app/form/browser/add.py
> and added this line: self.gotoURL = str(content.__name__) after content
> = self.add(content), having previously set gotoURL='' as a class
> variable. I have a nextURL method:
>
> def nextURL(self):
>      return '../%s' % self.gotoURL
>
> And lo and behold on submission of the add form I get the browser view
> of the added object. Magic!
>
> I am doing this customisation because I want to collect essential Dublin
> Core data with data for the content object, rather than rely on users
> filling in the metadata form later.
>
> Cliff
>
>
> Cliff Ford wrote:
>> I have a custom addform that works fine with a standard 
>> configuration. However, on submission it redirects to the contents 
>> view of its container and I want it to redirect somewhere else, such 
>> as the new object's edit or metadata views. All I really need is a 
>> nextURL configuration directive, mentioned in mailings some time 
>> ago, but I don't think that has been implemented.
>>
>> I have created a class with a __call__ method that returns the 
>> custom form template, and a nextURL() method. In the configuration 
>> file I have replaced the content_factory directive with the class 
>> directive.
>>
>> With the custom form and class, the form displays and field 
>> validation still works, but with valid fields I get an object 
>> creation error:
>>
>> File "/usr/local/Zope3/src/zope/app/form/browser/add.py", line 71, in create
>>     return self._factory(*args, **kw)
>> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
>>
>> I have looked at the add.py module and am none the wiser. I guess I 
>> have neglected to set something somewhere, may be context related. 
>> Can anyone enlighten me? The custom class has almost nothing in it 
>> (see below) so I am surprised it gets as far as it does. [I have 
>> also searched the archives and read both recent Zope3 books but 
>> can't find an answer.]
>>
>> Cliff
>>
>> Custom class:
>>
>> from zope.app.pagetemplate.viewpagetemplatefile import ViewPageTemplateFile
>>
>> class PageAddFormD:
>>     """This class reads the form data and creates a custom Page"""
>>
>>     template = ViewPageTemplateFile('pageaddformd.pt')
>>
>>     def __call__(self):
>>         return self.template()
>>
>>     def getInterfaces(self):
>>         """ Don't know if I need this here """
>>         return implementedBy(GlgPage)
>>
>>     def nextURL(self):
>>         """ return the next place to go """
>>         # have not got this far yet
>>         return '../'
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