Pull request got merged in and is already available in doc: https://turbogears.readthedocs.org/en/latest/main/Controllers.html?highlight=root.py
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Moritz Schlarb <[email protected]>wrote: > And FWIW, I just fixed it in the docs and created two pull requests: > https://github.com/TurboGears/tg2docs/pulls > > > > On Saturday, April 6, 2013 10:00:16 AM UTC+2, Moritz Schlarb wrote: >> >> First of all, you are totally right, there is a typo in the docs, there >> is no controllers.py ever - it should say controllers/root.py instead. >> >> And on the other hand, for your understanding: >> TurboGears uses a different approach than Flask, which uses explicitly >> defined routes. >> In TurboGears you have a so called Object Dispatch - which means that in >> order to find the method to serve a request, >> starting from the RootController, attributes that are subclasses of >> TGController and methods with the @expose decorator >> are searched for something the matches your request url (with some >> wildcards, of course). >> You can read more about that here: >> >> - https://turbogears.**readthedocs.org/en/rtfd2.2.2/** >> >> main/Controllers.html?**highlight=object%20dispatch<https://turbogears.readthedocs.org/en/rtfd2.2.2/main/Controllers.html?highlight=object%20dispatch> >> - https://turbogears.**readthedocs.org/en/rtfd2.2.2/** >> >> main/TGControllers.html?**highlight=object%20dispatch<https://turbogears.readthedocs.org/en/rtfd2.2.2/main/TGControllers.html?highlight=object%20dispatch> >> - Or in the development docs, which are completely reordered and >> overhauled: https://**turbogears.readthedocs.org/en/** >> >> development/turbogears/**controllers.html#basic-**dispatch<https://turbogears.readthedocs.org/en/development/turbogears/controllers.html#basic-dispatch> >> >> So for your example, in order to see something at /hello, you add the >> following to the RootController: >> >> @expose('hello.html') >> def hello(self): >> return dict() >> >> The method name is the url fragment that gets matched. >> >> Cheers, >> Moritz >> >> On Saturday, April 6, 2013 5:13:15 AM UTC+2, Pronoy Chopra wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I just started with Turbogears 2.2 and I can't for the life of me find >>> controllers.py as mentioned >>> here<https://turbogears.readthedocs.org/en/rtfd2.2.2/main/explorequickstart.html#quick-example> >>> >>> I do see root.py in the controllers folder and I don't see any URLs to >>> edit. Reason I point this out is, I've used Flask and it's pretty >>> straightforward in there. You just do this: >>> >>> @app.route('/hello') >>> def hello_handler(): >>> return render_template('hello.html') >>> >>> So, hello_handler() is triggered when the URL '/hello' is called. So I >>> am just trying to make sense according to my past experience. Please excuse >>> the stupidity of the question if apparent. >>> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TurboGears" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
