Selectors are scoring functions that are called by the registry to tell whenever

an appobject can be selected in a given context. Selector sets are for instance

the glue that tie views to the data model. Using them appropriately is an

Of course you may have to write your own set of selectors as your needs grows and

you get familiar with the framework (see :ref:CustomSelectors).

Here is a description of generic selectors provided by CubicWeb that should suit

most of your needs.

Bare selectors

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Those selectors are somewhat dumb, which doesn't mean they're not (very) useful.

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.appobject.yes

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.match_kwargs

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.appobject_selectable

Result set selectors

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Those selectors are looking for a result set in the context ('rset' argument or

the input context) and match or not according to its shape. Some of these

selectors have different behaviour if a particular cell of the result set is

specified using 'row' and 'col' arguments of the input context or not.

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.none_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.any_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.nonempty_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.empty_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.one_line_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.multi_lines_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.multi_columns_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.paginated_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.sorted_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.one_etype_rset

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.multi_etypes_rset

Entity selectors

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Those selectors are looking for either an `entity` argument in the input context,

or entity found in the result set ('rset' argument or the input context) and

match or not according to entity's (instance or class) properties.

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.non_final_entity

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.implements

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.score_entity

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.rql_condition

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.relation_possible

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.partial_relation_possible

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.has_related_entities

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.partial_has_related_entities

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.has_permission

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.has_add_permission

Logged user selectors

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Those selectors are looking for properties of the user issuing the request.

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.anonymous_user

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.authenticated_user

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.match_user_groups

Web request selectors

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Those selectors are looking for properties of *web* request, they can not be

used on the data repository side.

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.match_form_params

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.match_search_state

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.match_context_prop

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.match_view

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.primary_view

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.specified_etype_implements

.. autoclass:: cubicweb.selectors.match_transition

You'll also find some other (very) specific selectors hidden in other modules

than :module:`cubicweb.selectors`.