Thursday, November 19, 2020

Editable ESF fields

I started working on #3581.

We add a new boolean field ClientSummary.user_modified and want Lino to automatically set this field to True whenever a statistical field gets manually edited by an end user. Since there are many statistical fields, we don’t want to define a Model.FOO_changed() method on the model for each of them. This is a use case for a custom before_ui_save method.

But we need a little optimization in the Lino core: the before_ui_save method now receives a second positional argument cw : the change watcher, or None.

Step 4 of the LETS tutorial

The Step 4 : User types page of the LETS tutorial (The LETS tutorial) caused a test failure when my copy of the lets repository was not at step4 branch. Ideed it is –by design– not a good idea to have doctests on this page. That’s why I moved these doctests to the specs in the lets tutorial. Also reviewed this page to provide more useful explanations. I discovered Sphinx’s diff highlight mode. The diff chunks render beautifully and a good for explaining, but they contain lines that start with “>>>” and which are not meant to be tested by doctest. That’s why the book repository now uses the exclude keyword argument of atelier.test.make_docs_suite() to exempt this file from being tested.