doc/book/en/development/devweb/views/breadcrumbs.rst
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changeset 5309 e8567135a927
parent 5308 c691a424d9e0
child 5311 34dc38456376
--- a/doc/book/en/development/devweb/views/breadcrumbs.rst	Fri Apr 16 11:40:33 2010 +0200
+++ b/doc/book/en/development/devweb/views/breadcrumbs.rst	Fri Apr 16 13:57:27 2010 +0200
@@ -1,51 +1,54 @@
 Breadcrumbs
 -----------
 
-Breadcrumbs are a navigation component to situate the user in the
-arborescence's site.
-
+Breadcrumbs are a navigation component to help the user locate himself
+along a path of entities.
 
 Display
 ~~~~~~~
 
 Breadcrumbs are displayed by default in the header section (see
-:ref:`the_main_template_sections`).  With the default base template,
-the header section is composed by the logo, the application name,
-breadcrumbs and, at the most right, the login box. Breadcrumbs are
-displayed just next to the application name, thus breadcrumbs begin
-with a separator.
+:ref:`the_main_template_sections chapter`).  With the default main
+template, the header section is composed by the logo, the application
+name, breadcrumbs and, at the most right, the login box. Breadcrumbs
+are displayed just next to the application name, thus breadcrumbs
+begin with a separator.
 
 Here is the header section of the CubicWeb's forge:
 
 .. image:: ../../../images/breadcrumbs_header.png
 
 There are three breadcrumbs components defined in
-``cubicweb/web/views/ibreadcrumbs.py`` file:
+:mod:`cubicweb.web.views.ibreadcrumbs`:
 
-- BreadCrumbEntityVComponent: displayed for a result set with one line
+- `BreadCrumbEntityVComponent`: displayed for a result set with one line
   if the entity implements the ``IBreadCrumbs`` interface.
-- BreadCrumbETypeVComponent: displayed for a result set with more than
+- `BreadCrumbETypeVComponent`: displayed for a result set with more than
   one line, but with all entities of the same type which implement the
   ``IBreadCrumbs`` interface.
-- BreadCrumbAnyRSetVComponent: displayed for any other result set.
+- `BreadCrumbAnyRSetVComponent`: displayed for any other result set.
 
-Implementation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Building breadcrumbs
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 The ``IBreadCrumbs`` interface is defined in the
-``cubicweb/interfaces.py`` file. It specifies that an entity which
+:mod:`cubicweb.interfaces` module. It specifies that an entity which
 implements this interface must have a ``breadcrumbs`` method.
 
+.. note::
+
+   Redefining the breadcrumbs is the hammer way to do it. Another way
+   is to define the `parent` method on an entity (as defined in the
+   `ITree` interface). If available, it will be used to compute
+   breadcrumbs.
+
 Here is the API of the ``breadcrumbs`` method:
 
 .. automethod:: cubicweb.interfaces.IBreadCrumbs.breadcrumbs
 
-
 If the breadcrumbs method return a list of entities, the
 ``cubicweb.web.views.ibreadcrumbs.BreadCrumbView`` is used to display
-the first elements and the
-``cubicweb.web.views.ibreadcrumbs.BreadCrumbTextView`` is used to
-display the last one.
+the elements.
 
 By default, for any entity, if recurs=True, breadcrumbs method returns
 a list of entities, else a list of a simple string.
@@ -53,8 +56,3 @@
 In order to see a hierarchical breadcrumbs, entities must have a
 ``parent`` method which returns the parent entity. By default this
 method doesn't exist on entity, given that it can not be guessed.
-
-XXX To change the default separator, you have to monkeypatch the
-``BreadCrumbEntityVComponent.separator`` class attribute.
-
-XXX  add_to_breadcrumbs = False on an EntityView