[Dev] XML for cpia is dead! long live python for cpia!

[Brian Kirsch]

Sweet!


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Alec Flett wrote:

> ok folks - Phillip has set me straight.. or at least, he came up with 
> a scheme, in python, that provides a reasonable compact 
> declaration-style mechanism for childblocks that isn't absurdly 
> verbose, and meets most of the criteria I outlined before :)
>
> Lesson learned from today: when phillip says "but you can do that 
> easily in python" remember his understanding of python is much deeper 
> and his definition of "easily" is probably a lot different than yours!
>
> I'm working on a revised version of his original proposal...
>
> Alec
>
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>> At 02:19 PM 8/10/2005 -0700, Alec Flett wrote:
>>
>>>> from somewhere.cpia_templates import Menu, MenuItem
>>>>
>>>> Menu("FileMenu", _('File'), [
>>>>     Menu("NewMenu", _('New...'), [
>>>>         MenuItem("NewMessageItem", _("Message"), ...),
>>>>         MenuItem("NewNoteItem",    _("Note"), ...),
>>>>     ])
>>>> ]).install(parcel)
>>>
>>> Wow. If you can explain a little more about how to do this, I'll 
>>> throw away all of my XmlForCpia work - seriously :)
>>>
>>> do you mean that "Menu" is just a template wrapper around the Menu 
>>> class, or that we're somehow making the Menu class also implement 
>>> this template class?
>>>
>>> i.e. is this something like, in somewhere.cpia_templates:
>>>
>>> from osaf.framework import Blocks
>>> Menu = template(Blocks.Menu)?
>>
>>
>> You could do it that way, although I think what you'd want is to have 
>> a 'template' classmethod on Item that created template instances.  
>> Then somewhere.cpia_templates would be defined more like:
>>
>>     Menu = Blocks.Menu.template
>>
>> etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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