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chore: replaced writer_name with writer in call to ReStructuredText Was generating: roundup/cgi/templating.py:1889: PendingDeprecationWarning: Argument "writer_name" will be removed in Docutils 2.0. Specify writer name in the "writer" argument. return u2s(ReStructuredText(
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2 :description:
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3 Additional implementation notes for the Roundup Issue Tracker.
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4 Supplement for docstrings in the Roundup package.
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6 ====================
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7 Implementation notes
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8 ====================
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10 [see also the roundup package docstring]
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12 There have been some modifications to the spec. I've marked these in the
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13 source with 'XXX' comments when I remember to.
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15 In short:
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16 Class.find() - may match multiple properties, uses keyword args.
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18 Class.filter() - isn't in the spec and it's very useful to have at the
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19 Class level.
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21 CGI interface index view specifier layout part - lose the '+' from the
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22 sorting arguments (it's a reserved URL character ;). Just made no
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23 prefix mean ascending and '-' prefix descending.
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25 ItemClass - renamed to IssueClass to better match it only having one
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26 hypderdb class "issue". Allowing > 1 hyperdb class breaks the
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27 "superseder" multilink (since it can only link to one thing, and
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28 we'd want bugs to link to support and vice-versa).
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30 template - the call="link()" is handled by special-case mechanisms in
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31 my top-level CGI handler. In a nutshell, the handler looks for a
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32 method on itself called 'index%s' or 'item%s' where %s is a class.
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33 Most items pass on to the templating mechanism, but the file class
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34 _always_ does downloading. It'll probably stay this way too...
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36 template - call="link(property)" may be used to link "the current item"
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37 (from an index) - the link text is the property specified.
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39 template - added functions that I found very useful: List, History and
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40 Submit.
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42 template - items must specify the message lists, history, etc. Having
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43 them by default was sometimes not wanted.
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45 template - index view determines its default columns from the
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46 template's ``tal:condition="request/show/<property>"`` directives.
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48 template - menu() and field() look awfully similar now .... ;)
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55 Back to `Table of Contents`_
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Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/