On Tuesday 24 January 2006 12:36, Alec Munro wrote: > As part of an e-commerce system I am building, I need a way to specify > a set of schemas that the purchaser must fill in data for. For > example, in order to purchase product A, you need to select a paint > colour, but in order to purchase product B, you must select 3 paint > colours. I need a way for the site manager to specify this when adding > products to the site.
I think this has little to do with the site manager. At least not directly. > Currently, my plan for dealing with this is that I give all products a > "product_attribute" property, which consists of a list of schemas. I think what you want are product types. You can then assign a product type (by directlyProvides) for each type you support. Then use the ideas in zope.app.schemacontent to store the data. The alternative is to develop local, persistent schemas. Unfortunately interfaces have a bug that prevent persistent schemas, but Jim promised to fix that soon. > There are two relatively minor problems I have with this system: > In order to get the schemas, I currently have them all subclassing > IProductAttributes, and I look up the Interfaces vocabulary and parse > it for descendants of IProductAttributes. I would like a simpler way > to get them. One idea I had was creating my own Type, and declaring > them all to be of that type. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get a > list of all interfaces of a given type. import zope.component zope.component.getUtilitiesFor(IMyTypeInterface) > The second problem I have is that the built-in widget for a List of > Choices only allows you to select a single instance of each option > available to the Choice. Is this inherent to the Choice field itself, > or is it merely a limitation of the widget? Right, it is a limitation of the choice field, which is always a single item of a collection. Use the list or tuple field instead with a value_type that is a choice field. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
