On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > I want to build a simple webinterface for my application and decided to use > twisted.web with its templating for that. This will be my first contact with > twisted.
In that case, welcome to Twisted! > I had found a working example at [1]. That looks like an OK example. I see that <http://twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/sphinx-preview-11.0pre1/projects/web/howto/twisted-templates.html> explains this in the abstract, but it's a documentation bug that it doesn't help you tie it all together. Please feel free to file that bug :). > Is there a way to render a template that involves less boiler plate code? In > that example I had to create a template.Element class and a web.Ressource > class for each page I want to render. The Ressource basically looks always > the > same for each page, just that it renders another Element class. You can just make one Resource class that wraps an Element. There's no need to have a different class for every one. You might want to submit a patch to add such a class to Twisted, although I think requirements will differ between projects as far as what the features of such a class should be, so it might be best to wait on that until a few more projects can present examples of how they used it. > Is there a way to shortcut that a bit? My standard situation will be that I > have a template file and an Element class containing the logic. These are > "mounted" somewehre in the hierarchy (like with putChild). You can either use putChild or write resources with appropriate getChild methods; which is better depends on your application. It might make sense to make a single Resource subclass that deals with rendering an element, and then subclass that in order to provide methods to retrieve children. > Sorry, I'm sure I'm lacking quite a bit of insight into twisted. It sounds like you've got the basics, actually - just remember that it's all Python code, and you can use whatever programming techniques make your life easier. You don't need to find a magic solution to everything somewhere inside Twisted itself, just for it to work with Twisted :). -glyph _______________________________________________ Twisted-web mailing list [email protected] http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-web
