I'm doing some experiments with mini declarative languages (as
explained by David Mertz in http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...y/l-cpdec.html) in Python,
with the intention to use it as the mechanism to define data entry
forms. My final goal is to have a simple approach to automatic
generation of visual interfaces. The complete framework is rather big,
so let's us focus at this specific problem.
-- I would like to describe my data entry forms with plain Python
code. I don't want to use XML, dicts or other data-driven solution;
not because I don't like it, not because I don't know about it, only
because I want to try a different approach.
-- This is a simple code snippet of the intended form declaration:
class UserForm(Form):
nickname = TextBox(length= 15, default="")
password = TextBox(length= 10, default="", password=True)
name = TextBox(length= 40, default="")
It's actually based to some extent on Ian Bicking's sqlobject library,
that uses a similar approach to build entity definitions. But there's
a catch: the class constructor receives a dict, and has no way to tell
the original ordering of the attributes in the original class. The
field names are passed in an arbitrary ordering, due to the use of the
dict mapping.
-- I've tried using metaclasses or other similar magic; I've read the
tutorials, tried some code, and read sqlobject own implementation.
This is not a problem for sqlobject, because the order of the columns
in the database is totally isolated from the object representation.
But in my case, it is a problem, because I need the fields to be in
the correct order in the display.
My question is, there is any way to retrieve the class attributes in
the order they were declared? I could not find any; __setattr__ won't
work because the dict is constructed using the native dict type before
__new__ has a chance at it. Is there anything that I'm overlooking?
--
Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com
blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com
mail: ca********@gmai l.com
mail: ca********@yaho o.com 7  1576 
Carlos Ribeiro <ca********@gma il.com> writes: I'm doing some experiments with mini declarative languages (as
explained by David Mertz in
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...y/l-cpdec.html) in Python,
with the intention to use it as the mechanism to define data entry
forms. My final goal is to have a simple approach to automatic
generation of visual interfaces. The complete framework is rather big,
so let's us focus at this specific problem.
-- I would like to describe my data entry forms with plain Python
code. I don't want to use XML, dicts or other data-driven solution;
not because I don't like it, not because I don't know about it, only
because I want to try a different approach.
-- This is a simple code snippet of the intended form declaration:
class UserForm(Form):
nickname = TextBox(length= 15, default="")
password = TextBox(length= 10, default="", password=True)
name = TextBox(length= 40, default="")
It's actually based to some extent on Ian Bicking's sqlobject library,
that uses a similar approach to build entity definitions. But there's
a catch: the class constructor receives a dict, and has no way to tell
the original ordering of the attributes in the original class. The
field names are passed in an arbitrary ordering, due to the use of the
dict mapping.
-- I've tried using metaclasses or other similar magic; I've read the
tutorials, tried some code, and read sqlobject own implementation.
This is not a problem for sqlobject, because the order of the columns
in the database is totally isolated from the object representation.
But in my case, it is a problem, because I need the fields to be in
the correct order in the display.
My question is, there is any way to retrieve the class attributes in
the order they were declared? I could not find any; __setattr__ won't
work because the dict is constructed using the native dict type before
__new__ has a chance at it. Is there anything that I'm overlooking?
No, there is no way. But there is a trick you can use (I've played with
stuff like this, in a different context, in the past): You can use an
instance variable or global in the TextBox callable, that is incremented
on each call. This counter is somehow attached to the object that
TextBox returns, and lets you order these objects afterwards. Makes
sense?
Thomas
You may can write your own __setattr__ method.
That way you can keep track of the order of
the fields yourself.
class UserForm(Form):
def __init__(self):
self.fields=[]
self.next_index =0 # Index pointer for next method
self.nickname = TextBox(length= 15, default=""))
self.password = TextBox(length= 10, default="", password=True))
self.name = TextBox(length= 40, default="")
return
def __setattr__(sel f, fieldname, object):
self.fields.app end(object)
self.__dict__[fieldname]=object
return
def __iter__(self):
return self
def next(self):
#
# Try to get the next route
#
try: FIELD=self.fiel ds[self.next_index]
except:
self.next_index =0
raise StopIteration
#
# Increment the index pointer for the next call
#
self.next_index +=1
return FIELD
self.fields list will contain the fields in the
order they were defined. self.__dict__ contains
them in dictionary that __getattr__ will reference
for indexed lookup. I added __iter__ and next
methods so you can easily loop over all the fields.
Not tested and just one of
many methods.
Larry Bates
"Carlos Ribeiro" <ca********@gma il.com> wrote in message
news:ma******** *************** *************** @python.org... I'm doing some experiments with mini declarative languages (as
explained by David Mertz in
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...y/l-cpdec.html) in Python,
with the intention to use it as the mechanism to define data entry
forms. My final goal is to have a simple approach to automatic
generation of visual interfaces. The complete framework is rather big,
so let's us focus at this specific problem.
-- I would like to describe my data entry forms with plain Python
code. I don't want to use XML, dicts or other data-driven solution;
not because I don't like it, not because I don't know about it, only
because I want to try a different approach.
-- This is a simple code snippet of the intended form declaration:
class UserForm(Form):
nickname = TextBox(length= 15, default="")
password = TextBox(length= 10, default="", password=True)
name = TextBox(length= 40, default="")
It's actually based to some extent on Ian Bicking's sqlobject library,
that uses a similar approach to build entity definitions. But there's
a catch: the class constructor receives a dict, and has no way to tell
the original ordering of the attributes in the original class. The
field names are passed in an arbitrary ordering, due to the use of the
dict mapping.
-- I've tried using metaclasses or other similar magic; I've read the
tutorials, tried some code, and read sqlobject own implementation.
This is not a problem for sqlobject, because the order of the columns
in the database is totally isolated from the object representation.
But in my case, it is a problem, because I need the fields to be in
the correct order in the display.
My question is, there is any way to retrieve the class attributes in
the order they were declared? I could not find any; __setattr__ won't
work because the dict is constructed using the native dict type before
__new__ has a chance at it. Is there anything that I'm overlooking?
--
Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com
blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com
mail: ca********@gmai l.com
mail: ca********@yaho o.com
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:04:21 +0200, Thomas Heller <th*****@python .net> wrote: No, there is no way. But there is a trick you can use (I've played with
stuff like this, in a different context, in the past): You can use an
instance variable or global in the TextBox callable, that is incremented
on each call. This counter is somehow attached to the object that
TextBox returns, and lets you order these objects afterwards. Makes
sense?
I think that it does. Actually, I had a pretty much more ellaborate
idea that rely on a *lot* of introspection for the same effect. It's
not for the faint of heart :-)
It goes like this: inside the TextBox constructor, raise an exception,
capture the stack frame, and check from where was it called. I think
there's enough information at this point to order the elements. As I
said, not for the faint of heart, and it smells like a terrible hack.
I'll check this and other similar ideas. Thanks again,
--
Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com
blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com
mail: ca********@gmai l.com
mail: ca********@yaho o.com
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:10:00 -0500, Larry Bates <lb****@swamiso ft.com> wrote: You may can write your own __setattr__ method.
That way you can keep track of the order of
the fields yourself.
Larry,
I may have made a mistake on my own code, but __setattr__ would not
work for me; I'm creating my instances through a metaclass, and I'm
using class attributes for the fields.
In your example the form fields are instance attributes. In this case,
I agree it works. But as I said -- I was testing if I could make it
work using class attributes and metaclasses. I think that the
resulting code is much cleaner (after all black magic is done and
hidden from the user, that is). Compare:
1) using class attributes
class UserForm(Form):
nickname = TextBox(length= 15, default="")
password = TextBox(length= 10, default="", password=True)
name = TextBox(length= 40, default="")
2) using instance atttributes
class UserForm(Form):
def __init__(self):
Form.__init__(s elf)
self.nickname = TextBox(length= 15, default=""))
self.password = TextBox(length= 10, default="", password=True))
self.name = TextBox(length= 40, default="")
Others may think that's a small difference, but if I could choose
between both approaches, I would surely pick (1).
--
Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com
blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com
mail: ca********@gmai l.com
mail: ca********@yaho o.com
Carlos Ribeiro wrote: I may have made a mistake on my own code, but __setattr__ would not
work for me; I'm creating my instances through a metaclass, and I'm
using class attributes for the fields.
I tried too, though not using metaclasses. class StoreOrder(dict ):
.... def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
.... dict.__init__(s elf, *args, **kwargs)
.... self["_order"] = []
.... def __setitem__(sel f, k, v):
.... dict.__setitem_ _(self, k, v)
.... self["_order"].append(k)
.... x = StoreOrder()
x["a"] = 9
x["b"] = 10
x
{'a': 9, '_order': ['_order', 'a', 'b'], 'b': 10} class Form:
.... pass
.... Form.__dict__ = StoreOrder()
Form.__dict__
{'_order': ['_order']} Form.a = 9
Form.__dict__
{'a': 9, '_order': ['_order']} Form.__dict__["b"] = 10
Form.b
10
What happens is that class assignment sets the
class __dict__ via PyDict_SetItem and not
through the generic mapping interface. In
essence it does
dict.__setitem_ _(self.__dict__ , "new class var", val)
instead of
setitem(self.__ dict__, "new class var", val)
Therefore I don't think it's possible to do what
you want. There's no way to interpose your own
code in class variable assignment.
Here's a way to implement the suggestion of
Thomas Heller's.
import itertools
order_gen = itertools.count ().next
class Counted(object) :
def __init__(self):
self._order = order_gen()
class TextBox(Counted ):
def __init__(self, length, default, password = False):
Counted.__init_ _(self)
self.length = length
self.default = default
self.password = password
class Form:
nickname = TextBox(length= 15, default="")
password = TextBox(length= 10, default="swordf ish", password=True)
Form.nickname._ order
0 Form.password._ order
1
Not as clever as checking the stack trace, but probably
for the better. :)
Andrew da***@dalkescie ntific.com
Hi
I have done scripts to generate web form and the rest xml, content
template at once
here is the url http://newped.auckland.ac.nz/python/idevice_template
Currently, the save function only generate files in a template directory
That editor's goal is to allow none techie people to generate their
instructional devices( form ) on their own will and can be plugged into
eXe for use without further coding needs.
Don't know is this somewhat similar to what you want
the code itself is nothing special, it uses javascript dom and python
text processing.
*************** *************** *************** *************** **************
Later, we will put a help box & extra info ( for advanced user to put
style, tags info) for a field,
This is a tool we will use in an opensource project https://eduforge.org/projects/exe/
still at pre-planning stage, but there is a proof-of-concept to play
around -- see the idevices list, those can be generated by the idevice
editor http://newped.auckland.ac.nz/python/eXe/start.pyg
*************** *************** *************** *************** ************** There should be some way to pass the "location". If you solve this,
you got your answer (of course, passing the "location" is not trivial,
that's why every GUI toolkit has it own approach).
That's *exaclty* the root of my problems. I don't want to specify
positioning; I only want to use *relative positioning* for everything,
working as automatically as possible. Will it work for all situations?
I'm not sure. But I think it's worth investigating.
What I intend to do is to borrow some of the layout techniques defined
by CSS+DHTML. It is *much* more complex that this, but it basically
works by formatting "block level" and "inline elements" elements
relatively to each other. You can give hints as to the relative
positioning -- absolute, relative, floating to the left, floating to
the right, and stuff like that. The layout engine positions everything
according to the constraints. If the engine doesn't support advanced
layout, it simply falls back to a simple sequence of entries according
to the original text flow.
There are two reasons behnd my choice:
-- there is a lot of knowledge today about how to make good interfaces
using CSS. It's faster to develop and is more flexible regarding
different engines and platforms than to rely on absolute positioning
(as conventional GUI builders do)
-- it makes *much* easier to use the same form definition on native
GUIs and web-based ones. My goal is to be able to build a wxPython
dialog or a web form from the same description.
That's why I can't give positioning hints, at least for now. But I
could include relative ordering information; for example, an arbitrary
tag number. But doing this I would defeat my objective of clarity of
design.
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