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-.. _Overview:
-
-Quick overview of `CubicWeb`
-============================
-
-`CubicWeb` allows us to develop web applications instances based on
-one or more `cubes`.
-
-What we call a `cube` is a model defining the data types and views.
-A `cube` is a reusable component grouped with others cubes in the file
-system.
-
-An `instance` refers to a specific installation of one or more `cubes`
- where are grouped configuration files of the final web application.
-
-In this document, we will show you how to create a `cube` and how to use it
-in an `instance` for your web application.
-
-Create your cube
-----------------
-
-After you installed your `CubicWeb` development environment, you can start
-to build your first cube: ::
-
- cubicweb-ctl newcube blog
-
-This will create in ``/path/to/forest/cubes`` a directory containing: ::
-
- blog/
- |
- |-- data/
- | |-- cubes.blog.css
- | |-- cubes.blog.js
- | |-- external_resources
- |
- |-- debian/
- | |-- changelog
- | |-- compat
- | |-- control
- | |-- copyright
- | |-- cubicweb-blog.prerm
- | |-- rules
- |
- |-- entities.py
- |
- |-- i18n/
- | |-- en.po
- | |-- fr.po
- |
- |-- __init__.py
- |
- |-- MANIFEST.in
- |
- |-- migration/
- | |-- postcreate.py
- | |-- precreate.py
- |
- |-- __pkginfo__.py
- |
- |-- schema.py
- |
- |-- setup.py
- |
- |-- site_cubicweb.py
- |
- |-- sobjects.py
- |
- |-- test/
- | |-- data/
- | |-- bootstrap_cubes
- | |-- pytestconf.py
- | |-- realdb_test_blog.py
- | |-- test_blog.py
- |
- |-- views.py
-
-Any changes applied to your data model should be done in this
-directory.
-
-
-Define your data schema
------------------------
-
-The data model or schema is hte core of your `CubicWeb` application.
-This is where is defined the type of content you application will handle.
-
-The data model is defined in the file ``schema.py`` of your cube
-``blog`` such as follows.
-
-::
-
- from cubicweb.schema import format_constraint
- class Blog(EntityType):
- title = String(maxsize=50, required=True)
- description = String()
-
- class BlogEntry(EntityType):
- title = String(required=True, fulltextindexed=True, maxsize=256)
- publish_date = Date(default='TODAY')
- content = String(required=True, fulltextindexed=True)
- entry_of = SubjectRelation('Blog', cardinality='?*')
-
-
-A Blog has a title and a description. The title is a string that is
-required by the class EntityType and must be less than 50 characters.
-The description is a string that is not constrained.
-
-A BlogEntry has a title, a publish_date and a content. The title is a
-string that is required and must be less than 100 characters. The
-publish_date is a Date with a default value of TODAY, meaning that
-when a BlogEntry is created, its publish_date will be the current day
-unless it is modified. The content is a string that will be indexed in
-the full-text index and has no constraint.
-
-A BlogEntry also has a relationship ``entry_of`` that links it to a
-Blog. The cardinality ``?*`` means that a BlogEntry can be part of
-zero or one Blog (``?`` means `zero or one`) and that a Blog can
-have any number of BlogEntry (``*`` means `any number including
-zero`). For completeness, remember that ``+`` means `one or more`.
-
-
-Create your instance
---------------------
-
-::
-
- cubicweb-ctl create blog blogdemo
-
-
-This command will create a directory ``~/etc/cubicweb.d/blogdemo``
-which will contain all the configuration files required to start
-you web application.
-
-The instance ``blogdemo`` is based on the cube ``blog``.
-
-
-Welcome in your web application
--------------------------------
-
-Run your application with the following command: ::
-
- cubicweb-ctl start -D blogdemo
-
-
-You can now access to your web application to create blogs and post messages
-by visitin the URL http://localhost:8080/.
-A login form will first be prompted. By default, the application will not allow
-anonymous user to get in the application. You should then use the admin
-account you created at the time you initialized the database with
-``cubicweb-ctl create``.
-
-.. image:: images/login-form.png
-
-
-Once authenticated, you can start playing with your application
-and create entities. Bravo!
-
-.. image:: images/blog-demo-first-page.png
-
-Please notice that so far, `CubicWeb` franework managed all aspects of
-the web application based in the schema provided at first.
-
-
-Create entities
----------------
-
-We will now create a couple of entities in our web application.
-
-Create a Blog
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Let us create a few of these entities. Click on the `[+]` at the right
-of the link Blog. Call this new Blog ``Tech-blog`` and type in
-``everything about technology`` as the description, then validate the
-form by clicking on ``Validate``.
-
-.. image:: images/cbw-create-blog.en.png
- :alt: from to create blog
-
-Click on the logo at top left to get back to the home page, then
-follow the Blog link that will list for you all the existing Blog.
-You should be seeing a list with a single item ``Tech-blog`` you
-just created.
-
-.. image:: images/cbw-list-one-blog.en.png
- :alt: displaying a list of a single blog
-
-Clicking on this item will get you to its detailed description except
-that in this case, there is not much to display besides the name and
-the phrase ``everything about technology``.
-
-Now get back to the home page by clicking on the top-left logo, then
-create a new Blog called ``MyLife`` and get back to the home page
-again to follow the Blog link for the second time. The list now
-has two items.
-
-.. image:: images/cbw-list-two-blog.en.png
- :alt: displaying a list of two blogs
-
-Create a BlogEntry
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Get back to the home page and click on [+] at the right of the link
-BlogEntry. Call this new entry ``Hello World`` and type in some text
-before clicking on ``Validate``. You added a new blog entry without
-saying to what blog it belongs. There is a box on the left entitled
-``actions``, click on the menu item ``modify``. You are back to the form
-to edit the blog entry you just created, except that the form now has
-another section with a combobox titled ``add relation``. Chose
-``entry_of`` in this menu and a second combobox appears where you pick
-``MyLife``.
-
-You could also have, at the time you started to fill the form for a
-new entity BlogEntry, hit ``Apply`` instead of ``Validate`` and the
-combobox titled ``add relation`` would have showed up.
-
-
-.. image:: images/cbw-add-relation-entryof.en.png
- :alt: editing a blog entry to add a relation to a blog
-
-Validate the changes by clicking ``Validate``. The entity BlogEntry
-that is displayed now includes a link to the entity Blog named
-``MyLife``.
-
-.. image:: images/cbw-detail-one-blogentry.en.png
- :alt: displaying the detailed view of a blogentry
-
-Please notice that so far, `CubicWeb` franework managed all aspects of
-the web application based in the schema provided at first.
-Also if you wish to get a graphical view of the schema, visit
-the link `Application schema`` which will direct you to :
-http://localhost:8080/view?vid=schema
-
-.. image:: images/cbw-schema.en.png
- :alt: graphical view of the schema (aka data-model)
-
-
-Define your entities views
---------------------------
-
-The views selection principle
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-A view is defined by a Python class which includes:
-
- - an identifier (all objects in `CubicWeb` are entered in a registry
- and this identifier will be used as a key)
-
- - a filter to select the resulsets it can be applied to
-
-
-`CubicWeb` provides a lot of standard views for the type
-`EntityView`, for a complete list, you
-will have to read the code in directory ``cubicweb/web/views/``
-
-A view is applied on a `result set` which contains a set of
-entities we are trying to display. `CubicWeb` uses a selector
-mecanism which computes a score used to identify which view
-is the best to apply for the `result set` we are trying to
-display. The standard library of selectors is in
-``cubicweb.common.selector`` and a library of methods used to
-compute scores is available in ``cubicweb.vregistry.vreq``.
-
-It is possible to define multiple views for the same identifier
-and to associate selectors and filters to allow the application
-to find the best way to render the data. We will see more details
-on this in :ref:`DefinitionVues`.
-
-For example, the view named ``primary`` is the one used to display
-a single entity. We will now show you hos to customize this view.
-
-
-View customization
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-If you wish to modify the way a `BlogEntry` is rendered, you will have to
-overwrite the `primary` view defined in the module ``views`` of the cube
-``cubes/blog/views.py``.
-
-We can by example add in front of the pulication date a prefix specifying
-the date we see is the publication date.
-
-To do so, please apply the following changes:
-
-::
-
- from cubicweb.web.views import baseviews
-
-
- class BlogEntryPrimaryView(baseviews.PrimaryView):
-
- accepts = ('BlogEntry',)
-
- def render_entity_title(self, entity):
- self.w(u'<h1>%s</h1>' % html_escape(entity.dc_title()))
-
- def content_format(self, entity):
- return entity.view('reledit', rtype='content_format')
-
- def cell_call(self, row, col):
- entity = self.entity(row, col)
-
- # display entity attributes with prefixes
- self.w(u'<h1>%s</h1>' % entity.title)
- self.w(u'<p>published on %s</p>' % entity.publish_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))
- self.w(u'<p>%s</p>' % entity.content)
-
- # display relations
- siderelations = []
- if self.main_related_section:
- self.render_entity_relations(entity, siderelations)
-
-.. note::
- When a view is modified, it is not required to restart the application
- server. Save the Python file and reload the page in your web browser
- to view the changes.
-
-You can now see that the publication date has a prefix.
-
-.. image:: images/cbw-update-primary-view.en.png
- :alt: modified primary view
-
-
-The above source code defines a new primary view for
-``BlogEntry``.
-
-Since views are applied to resultsets and resulsets can be tables of
-data, it is needed to recover the entity from its (row,col)
-coordinates. We will get to this in more detail later.
-
-The view has a ``self.w()`` method that is used to output data. In our
-example we use it to output HTML tags and values of the entity's attributes.
-