One note about Nathan's response; you need to derive your sub controller from turbogears.controllers.Controller
Another note about your dymamic template question, you can return a non-dict aswell, if you return a string, its sent as-is. With that in mind, you can create a generic 'skin' method, that either inserts tg_template into your dict, or returns the templated output directly, which your controller method can than return. Nathan wrote: > > another, more basic question - my app has both an admin area and a > > public area. rather than stuff all the logic into one controllers.py > > module, it seems like the thing to do is tell turbogears to use one > > controllers module for /admin and another for everything else. is there > > a recommended pattern for this? > > Controllers are just python classes, so if you want to write a > controller for another portion of your site just import a new class. > As an example, you want to write an admin class that would control the > /admin branch of your site. So open up a new module, admin.py, and > import the appropriate turbogears stuff from the top of controller.py, > then create a class just like Root. > > Example: > class Admin: > @expose(html="whatever") > def index(self): > hello = "hello, world!" > return dict(hello=hello) > > In the original controller.py you then need to import this using the > import command, so you would need to add something like: "from admin > import Admin" which will expose that class to the controller. > > Finally, to link that class to your main controller so that it will > handle "/admin" you need to add a reference in the Root class, like > this: > admin = Admin() > > What that does is simple, when TG comes across "/admin" it will look > into Root and see what handles it, instead of finding "def > somename(self):" it instead finds "admin=Admin()" and knows to then > check the Admin class for a "def index(self):" to serve the request. > All the same TG rules apply when constructing your Admin class. > > Hope that helps. I'm sure that's explained somewhere more concisely, > but I'm too tired to look for it :) > > > Nathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
