Several bugfixes while handling abstract classes (appy.gen) and added a first code chunk used while installing a gen-application for Plone 3.

doc/version.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+0.5.5 (2010-04-21)
+- Lots of minor improvements and implementation of first elements for a Plone3 generator.
+
 0.5.4 (2010-03-24)
 - Improved gen search screens and many more minor bugfixes and features.
 

gen/plone25/installer.py

@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ class PloneInstaller:
         # Creates the new-way templates for Pod fields if they do not exist.
         for contentType, attrNames in self.attributes.iteritems():
             appyClass = self.tool.getAppyClass(contentType)
+            if not appyClass: continue # May be an abstract class
             for attrName in attrNames:
                 appyType = getattr(appyClass, attrName)
                 if appyType.type == 'Pod':

gen/plone25/mixins/FlavourMixin.py

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ class FlavourMixin(AbstractMixin):
            being effectively used in the search screen.'''
         res = []
         appyClass = self.getAppyClass(contentType)
-        for attrName in getattr(self, 'searchFieldsFor%s' % contentType):
+        for attrName in getattr(self, 'searchFieldsFor%s' % contentType, ()):
             attr = getattr(appyClass, attrName)
             dAttr = self._appy_getTypeAsDict(attrName, attr, appyClass)
             res.append((attrName, dAttr))

gen/plone25/mixins/ToolMixin.py

@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ class ToolMixin(AbstractMixin):
         '''Gets the Appy Python class that is related to p_contentType.'''
         # Retrieve first the Archetypes class corresponding to p_ContentType
         portalType = self.portal_types.get(contentType)
+        if not portalType: return None
         atClassName = portalType.getProperty('content_meta_type')
         appName = self.getProductConfig().PROJECTNAME
         exec 'from Products.%s.%s import %s as atClass' % \

gen/plone25/mixins/__init__.py

@@ -261,7 +261,10 @@ class AbstractMixin:
                         return t('%s_%s_list_%s' % (self.meta_type, name, v))
             if not isinstance(v, basestring):
                 # Archetypes "Description" fields may hold a BaseUnit instance.
+                try:
                     v = unicode(v)
+                except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                    v = str(v)
             return v
         elif vType == 'Boolean':
             if v: return self.translate('yes', domain='plone')

gen/plone3/installer.py

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+'''This package contains stuff used at run-time for installing a generated
+   Plone product.'''
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+from appy.gen.plone25.installer import PloneInstaller as Plone25Installer
+
+class ZCTextIndexInfo:
+    '''Silly class used for storing information about a ZCTextIndex.'''
+    lexicon_id = "plone_lexicon"
+    index_type = 'Okapi BM25 Rank'
+
+class PloneInstaller(Plone25Installer):
+    '''This Plone installer runs every time the generated Plone product is
+       installed or uninstalled (in the Plone configuration interface).'''
+    @staticmethod
+    def updateIndexes(ploneSite, indexInfo, logger):
+        '''This method creates or updates, in a p_ploneSite, definitions of
+           indexes in its portal_catalog, based on index-related information
+           given in p_indexInfo. p_indexInfo is a dictionary of the form
+           {s_indexName:s_indexType}. Here are some examples of index types:
+           "FieldIndex", "ZCTextIndex", "DateIndex".'''
+        catalog = ploneSite.portal_catalog
+        indexNames = catalog.indexes()
+        for indexName, indexType in indexInfo.iteritems():
+            if indexName not in indexNames:
+                # We need to create this index
+                if indexType != 'ZCTextIndex':
+                    catalog.addIndex(indexName, indexType)
+                else:
+                    catalog.addIndex(indexName,indexType,extra=ZCTextIndexInfo)
+                logger.info('Creating index "%s" of type "%s"...' % \
+                            (indexName, indexType))
+                # Indexing database content based on this index.
+                catalog.reindexIndex(indexName, ploneSite.REQUEST)
+                logger.info('Done.')
+        # TODO: if the index already exists but has not the same type, we
+        # re-create it with the same type and we reindex it.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------