On 4/25/05, Little <mordaha@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm newbie now in Model-View-Controller pattern, from perl/php it's difficult to think in DOM-model :)

So i have two questions, answers on which i can't google:

Q1: I have a page. At page i have 2 elements. The values(data->render) of both elements must calculated from single request to the Database. Simple, it's looks like:

[total: 100 rows] [table-like result]

So, in the template i have 2 elements, with 2 data_functions:

<div n:data="totals"> - ??? <div n:data="result"> - select * from db ... where ...

But "totals" i will knew only after "result" makes request to DB

So, i must to make "select * " in data_totals(), store data in self.var, and take it from self.var in data_result() function. This way is not perfect to me, coz if request to DB failed - it's very difficult to pass message about error into "request" function. May be not difficult but not clear. :(

You can store the db query in the context, retreive it from the context in the "totals" data method and return data based on that, though, I don't know how different this would be from just storing data in the page object. Solving this problem probably relies on more understanding of how Nevow handles data, and when/where it's accessable.

Another way is to use "fake" tag before "totals" and "request", like this:

<n:invisible data="real_request"> <div n:data="fetch_totals"> <div n:data="fetch_data">

Where data_real_request() doing "select *" and stores result (or error msg) in self.var It's not perfect too, coz we have program logic layer in template, and, again, it's not clear to programmer.

Third way is to use 2 requests to DB - the worst way, coz requests are long in time.

Is there another, perfect, clear way to produce such pages in nevow?

It might be helpful to post example code that's not working, you can do non-blocking database queries with deferToThread or adbapi, if you're using Twisted.

Q2: About formless. How can i use my own check of form element's value? For example, i have "e-mail" field in form. And i wanna check char '@' existense in it. When my code falls into anotate.autocallable() function in FormImplementation class - i have only values of form elements. If e-mail value doesn't have "@"-char, how can i stop submitting and show error near "e-mail" field in form when RenderForm() called?

I wrote this a while ago: http://divmod.org/users/wiki.twistd/nevow/moin.cgi/FormAnnotations ...you might need to adapt it depending on your version of Nevow.