{"id":349,"date":"2012-12-17T17:06:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2013-04-02T23:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:16:46","slug":"yafowil-in-a-pyramid-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2012\/12\/17\/yafowil-in-a-pyramid-project\/","title":{"rendered":"yafowil in a Pyramid project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new <a href=\"http:\/\/pylonsproject.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pyramid<\/a>\u00a0project we used <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.pylonsproject.org\/projects\/deform\" target=\"_blank\">deform<\/a>\u00a0to render forms. We did not really like it. (The reasons might be detailed in another post.)<\/p>\n<p>To see if other form libraries do better I\u00a0gave <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.yafowil.info\" target=\"_blank\">yafowil<\/a>\u00a0a try at our\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to gocept Developer Punsch\u00a03\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2012\/11\/03\/gocept-developer-punsch-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">gocept Developer Punsch\u00a03<\/a>: yafowil comes with written <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.yafowil.info\" target=\"_blank\">documentation<\/a>. To get a form in our Pyramid application I had to find out some things which are not so clearly documented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let the project depend on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pypi.python.org\/pypi\/yafowil.webob\" target=\"_blank\">yafowil.webob<\/a>\u00a0via setup.py as it contains the necessary <a href=\"http:\/\/webob.org\">WebOb<\/a>\u00a0integration.<\/li>\n<li>Import the <code>loader<\/code> from yafowil like below, to allow yafowil to register all its known components (even all the packages in the yafowil.wiget namespace). Otherwise I got strange errors. (The loader symbol is not needed at all in the rest of the code of the form.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre style=\"padding-left:30px;\">from yafowil import loader<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>To get a value displayed in the rendered form use <code>value<\/code> keyword parameter in the factory like this:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<pre>form['name'] = factory('field:label:text',\r\n                       props=dict(label=u'name', required=True),\r\n                       value=value_getter)<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><code>value<\/code> can be a plain value or a function which gets the widget and the runtime data of the widget as parameters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some widgets need JavaScript-Libraries. The integration with Pyramid or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanstatic.org\/en\/latest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fanstatic<\/a> is not part of the framework. <code>yafowil.base.Factory.resources_for<\/code> could be a starting point. (I did not do this yet, so it might be wrong.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong>\u00a0yafowil looks like an interesting framework and after getting a starting point it should be useable in Pyramid, too. Maybe this post can help to ease it a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new Pyramid\u00a0project we used deform\u00a0to render forms. We did not really like it. (The reasons might be detailed in another post.) To see if other form libraries do better I\u00a0gave yafowil\u00a0a try at our\u00a0gocept Developer Punsch\u00a03: yafowil comes with written documentation. To get a form in our Pyramid application I had to find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2012\/12\/17\/yafowil-in-a-pyramid-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;yafowil in a Pyramid project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15344399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10221,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFP3y-5D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1293,"url":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2013\/05\/29\/august-15th-17th-sprinting-on-pyramid\/","url_meta":{"origin":349,"position":0},"title":"August, 15th\u201317th: Sprinting on Pyramid","author":"Daniel Havlik","date":"May 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"After Zope \"-the-Framework\" reaching the end of its lifecycle during the last few years, we did a bunch of new projects with Pyramid, a nice web framework primarily authored by long-term Zope developer Chris McDonough. 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