Wednesday, September 16, 2015¶

Ticket #525¶

I received and analyzed ticket #525 (FieldError: Cannot resolve keyword ‘company’ into field)

That’s because the Courses table of the courses module used by Lino Welfare à la Chatelet (which had been originally written for Lino Faggio) still had a parameter field city. This makes sense only when rooms are managed by external partners and thus have an address.

Wrote new test case courses : Workshops to verify the fix.

The solution was to move this extended behaviour from lino.modlib.courses to lino_faggio.lib.courses.

Which is yet another change in the master repo while Hamza is working on #505.

Ticket #526¶

In lino_faggio.lib.courses this extended behaviou actually does not yet work because it causes the following error message:

Exception: Cannot reuse detail_layout of <class 'lino.modlib.courses.models.ActivitiesByTeacher'> for <class 'lino.modlib.courses.models.ActivitiesBySlot'>

How to explain this message… Imagine that you have two plugin libraries stdlib and mylib and that you want to extend a plugin foo which (among others) overrides the detail_layout of the Foos table.

In module stdlib.foo.models:

class Foos(Table):
    detail_layout = """
    a b c
    d
    """

class FoosByA(Foos):
   ...

class FoosByB(Foos):
   ...

In module mylib.foo.models:

from stdlib.foo.models import *

class Foos(Table):
    detail_layout = """
    a b
    d e
    """

class FoosByC(Foos):
   ...

In your application (in rt.models.foo) you will have four usable tables:

Foos is defined in mylib, inheriting from stdlib
FoosByA and FoosByB are defined in stdlib (you don’t override them in mylib)
FoosByC is defined only in mylib.

Now what should be the detail_layout of FoosByA and FoosByB? The natural answer is that they should also get the overridden layout defined for Foos. This is why we have set_detail_layout. We must write module mylib.foo.models as follows:

from stdlib.foo.models import *

class FoosByC(Foos):
   ...

@dd.receiver(dd.post_analyze)
def customize_courses(sender, **kw):
    rt.models.foo.Foos.set_detail_layout("""
    a b
    d e
    """)

But this trick now doesn’t work in the case of lino_faggio.lib.courses.

I suggest to change set_detail_layout lino.core.actors.Actor.set_detail_layout>() so that it also updates all derived tables. Which seems a bit dangerous and is not worth the effort right now (since the original ticket #525 is fixed). Triggered this as new #526.