doc/book/en/devweb/views/table.rst
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-Table views
------------
-
-.. automodule:: cubicweb.web.views.tableview
-
-Example
-```````
-
-Let us take an example from the timesheet cube:
-
-.. sourcecode:: python
-
-    class ActivityResourcesTable(EntityView):
-        __regid__ = 'activity.resources.table'
-        __select__ = is_instance('Activity')
-
-        def call(self, showresource=True):
-            eids = ','.join(str(row[0]) for row in self.cw_rset)
-            rql = ('Any R,D,DUR,WO,DESCR,S,A, SN,RT,WT ORDERBY D DESC '
-                   'WHERE '
-                   '   A is Activity, A done_by R, R title RT, '
-                   '   A diem D, A duration DUR, '
-                   '   A done_for WO, WO title WT, '
-                   '   A description DESCR, A in_state S, S name SN, '
-                   '   A eid IN (%s)' % eids)
-            rset = self._cw.execute(rql)
-            self.wview('resource.table', rset, 'null')
-
-    class ResourcesTable(RsetTableView):
-        __regid__ = 'resource.table'
-        # notice you may wish a stricter selector to check rql's shape
-        __select__ = is_instance('Resource')
-        # my table headers
-        headers  = ['Resource', 'diem', 'duration', 'workpackage', 'description', 'state']
-        # I want a table where attributes are editable (reledit inside)
-        finalvid = 'editable-final'
-
-        cellvids = {3: 'editable-final'}
-        # display facets and actions with a menu
-        layout_args = {'display_filter': 'top',
-                       'add_view_actions': None}
-
-To obtain an editable table, you may specify the 'editable-table' view identifier
-using some of `cellvids`, `finalvid` or `nonfinalvid`.
-
-The previous example results in:
-
-.. image:: ../../images/views-table-shadow.png
-
-In order to activate table filter mechanism, the `display_filter` option is given
-as a layout argument. A small arrow will be displayed at the table's top right
-corner. Clicking on `show filter form` action, will display the filter form as
-below:
-
-.. image:: ../../images/views-table-filter-shadow.png
-
-By the same way, you can display additional actions for the selected entities
-by setting `add_view_actions` layout option to `True`. This will add actions
-returned by the view's :meth:`~cubicweb.web.views.tableview.TableMixIn.table_actions`.
-
-You can notice that all columns of the result set are not displayed. This is
-because of given `headers`, implying to display only columns from 0 to
-len(headers).
-
-Also Notice that the `ResourcesTable` view relies on a particular rql shape
-(which is not ensured by the way, the only checked thing is that the result set
-contains instance of the `Resource` type). That usually implies that you can't
-use this view for user specific queries (e.g. generated by facets or typed
-manually).
-
-
-So another option would be to write this view using
-:class:`~cubicweb.web.views.tableview.EntityTableView`, as below.
-
-.. sourcecode:: python
-
-    class ResourcesTable(EntityTableView):
-        __regid__ = 'resource.table'
-        __select__ = is_instance('Resource')
-        # table columns definition
-        columns  = ['resource', 'diem', 'duration', 'workpackage', 'description', 'in_state']
-        # I want a table where attributes are editable (reledit inside)
-        finalvid = 'editable-final'
-        # display facets and actions with a menu
-        layout_args = {'display_filter': 'top',
-                       'add_view_actions': None}
-
-        def workpackage_cell(entity):
-            activity = entity.reverse_done_in[0]
-            activity.view('reledit', rtype='done_for', role='subject', w=w)
-        def workpackage_sortvalue(entity):
-            activity = entity.reverse_done_in[0]
-            return activity.done_for[0].sortvalue()
-
-        column_renderers = {
-            'resource': MainEntityColRenderer(),
-            'workpackage': EntityTableColRenderer(
-               header='Workpackage',
-               renderfunc=worpackage_cell,
-               sortfunc=worpackage_sortvalue,),
-            'in_state': EntityTableColRenderer(
-               renderfunc=lambda w,x: w(x.cw_adapt_to('IWorkflowable').printable_state),
-               sortfunc=lambda x: x.cw_adapt_to('IWorkflowable').printable_state),
-         }
-
-Notice the following point:
-
-* `cell_<column>(w, entity)` will be searched for rendering the content of a
-  cell. If not found, `column` is expected to be an attribute of `entity`.
-
-* `cell_sortvalue_<column>(entity)` should return a typed value to use for
-  javascript sorting or None for not sortable columns (the default).
-
-* The :func:`etable_entity_sortvalue` decorator will set a 'sortvalue' function
-  for the column containing the main entity (the one given as argument to all
-  methods), which will call `entity.sortvalue()`.
-
-* You can set a column header using the :func:`etable_header_title` decorator.
-  This header will be translated. If it's not an already existing msgid, think
-  to mark it using `_()` (the example supposes headers are schema defined msgid).
-
-
-Pro/cons of each approach
-`````````````````````````
-:class:`EntityTableView` and :class:`RsetableView` provides basically the same
-set of features, though they don't share the same properties. Let's try to sum
-up pro and cons of each class.
-
-* `EntityTableView` view is:
-
-  - more verbose, but usually easier to understand
-
-  - easily extended (easy to add/remove columns for instance)
-
-  - doesn't rely on a particular rset shape. Simply give it a title and will be
-    listed in the 'possible views' box if any.
-
-* `RsetTableView` view is:
-
-  - hard to beat to display barely a result set, or for cases where some of
-    `headers`, `displaycols` or `cellvids` could be defined to enhance the table
-    while you don't care about e.g. pagination or facets.
-
-  - hardly extensible, as you usually have to change places where the view is
-    called to modify the RQL (hence the view's result set shape).