Central Components

Creating University instances

As University instances make use of the Zope Component Architecture (ZCA), we have to setup the basic component registries, before we can create instances. We do this by simply grokking the whole waeup package. This way all interfaces, utilities and adapters defined in the package are looked up and registered with the global registries (this is done by the testlayer automatically).

Now we can import the University class and create an instance:

>>> from waeup.kofa.app import University
>>> myuniversity = University()
>>> myuniversity
<waeup.kofa.app.University object at 0x...>

Instances of University comply with the interface waeup.kofa.interfaces.IUniversity:

>>> from zope.interface.verify import verifyClass
>>> from waeup.kofa.interfaces import IUniversity
>>> verifyClass(IUniversity, University)
True

A freshly created instance provides the attributes promised by the interface:

>>> from waeup.kofa.app import University
>>> myuniversity = University()
>>> myuniversity['configuration'].name
u'Sample University'

>>> myuniversity['faculties']
<waeup.kofa.university.facultiescontainer.FacultiesContainer object at 0x...>

>>> myuniversity['students']
<waeup.kofa.students.container.StudentsContainer object at 0x...>

>>> myuniversity['users']
<waeup.kofa.userscontainer.UsersContainer object at 0x...>

>>> myuniversity['datacenter']
<waeup.kofa.datacenter.DataCenter object at 0x...>

>>> myuniversity['configuration']
<waeup.kofa.configuration.ConfigurationContainer object at 0x...>

Kofa plugins

waeup.kofa provides an API to ‘plugin’ components. Things that should be setup at creation time of a Kofa application can indicate that by providing a utility providing IKofaPlugin.

The plugins are looked up by an created app, which then will call the setup() method of each plugin.

>>> from waeup.kofa.interfaces import IKofaPluggable
>>> from zope.component import getAdapters, getUtilitiesFor
>>> sorted(list(getUtilitiesFor(IKofaPluggable)))
[(u'academics', <waeup.kofa.university.facultiescontainer.AcademicsPlugin ...)]

We can provide a new plugin like this:

>>> import grok
>>> from waeup.kofa.interfaces import IKofaPluggable
>>> class MyPlugin(grok.GlobalUtility):
...   grok.implements(IKofaPluggable)
...   def setup(self, site, name, logger):
...     print "Setup was called for"
...     print site
...   def update(self, site, name, logger):
...     pass

When we register the plugin

>>> grok.testing.grok_component('MyPlugin', MyPlugin)
True

and setup a new Kofa instance, we will get a message:

>>> from waeup.kofa.app import University
>>> site = University()
Setup was called for
<waeup.kofa.app.University object at 0x...>

Apparently the plugin can do with the University object whatever it likes. That’s what plugins are for.