Sunday, March 22, 2015

I continued to work on lino.modlib.checkdata.

Managing data problems using the web interface

Users are now able to fix problems using the web interface: the “Bell” button is now a combobutton with two actions UpdateMessages and FixProblems.

The Messages table is now read-only.

Detail window on a ChoiceList

Cool! The Checkers table now has a detail window where you can admire the MessagesByChecker table.

This required two subtle new features:

General side effects:

  • I removed the warning message Failed to set excerpts actions which was logged by lino.modlib.excerpts.models.set_excerpts_actions().

  • Updated documentation.

TODO:

  • Rename lino.modlib.plausability to lino.modlib.checkdata? Not now. One good thing is that “plausability” rimes with “integrity”. Note that this has nothing to do with Django’s System check framework?

Lino and Django 1.7

Mahmoud and I had a 3 hours extreme programming session on ticket #38. Here are some traces of what we did.

I started a new section of the Developers Guide: https://www.lino-framework.org/dev/i18n.html.

We tested this document using:

$ python -m doctest docs/blog/2015/0322.rst

Django 1.7 is more strict about the fact that translatable strings may not be translated while models are still loading. Which in first place means that you must ugettext_lazy and not ugettext. Lino accidentally still used the latter in one or two modules.

I learned that lazy translatable strings (instances of django.utils.translations.Promise) are also being translated when code tests for their boolean value.

For example:

>>> from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
>>> verbose_name = _("January")
>>> verbose_name  
<django.utils.functional.__proxy__ object at ...>

Now the following statement won’t work unless the “internationlization machine” has been initialized:

>>> s2 = verbose_name or "Month"  
Exception raised:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting USE_I18N, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

But this is allowed:

>>> if verbose_name is None:
...     s2 = "Month"
... else:
...     s2 = verbose_name

Here an example:

>>> import os
>>> os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'lino.projects.min1.settings.demo'
>>> from lino.api.shell import *

>>> from lino.core.kernel import choicelist_choices
>>> choicelist_choices()  
[('cal.AccessClasses', 'AccessClasses'),
('cal.DurationUnits', 'DurationUnits'),
('cal.EventEvents', <django.utils.functional.__proxy__ object at ...>),
(u'cal.EntryStates', <django.utils.functional.__proxy__ object at ...>),
...
('users.UserProfiles', <django.utils.functional.__proxy__ object at ...>)]