[Zope3-Users] reST for content editors

[Michael Dudzik]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:04:44 -0600, "Michael Dudzik"
<mdudzikml at gmail.com> said:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:15:24 -0600, "Brad Allen" <brad at allendev.com>
> said:
> > I'd prefer to allow content editors on my site to avoid having to 
> > type HTML, and have heard that reST might be a good, wiki-like 
> > choice. However, it's not clear to me how to get that working with 
> > ZPT content insertions. Would I need to build a new content class for 
> > this, or is there some easier way?
> 
> When a similar issue came up for me, all I did was add an additional
> type field to the content object then created a "render" method in the
> view, something like this for a 'description' field:
> 
> def renderdescription(self):
>     # for rest, self.context.descriptiontype would be 'zope.source.rest'
>     source = zapi.createObject(None,self.context.descriptiontype,
>     self.context.description)
>     textview = zapi.getView(source,'',self.request)
>     html = view.render()

typo - should be:
      html = textview.render()

>     return html
> 
> And then just used "view/renderdescription" in my templates.  
> 
> On grepping the zope codebase quickly, it looks like the more "modern"
> way to do this would be to use getMultiAdapter like:
> 
>     source = zapi.createObject(type,text)
>     renderer = zapi.getMultiAdapter((source, self.request))
>     return renderer.render()
> 
> I have no idea why I have an extra 'None' argument in my code, above
> 
> See zope/app/preference/browser.py for an example