Hi there,
I just saw this being changed in the wiki (by Fred Drake):
the new zope.formlib. - -- Reimplement file objects (for
Zope 2 or Zope 3 to take advantage of the new 'zope.formlib'
I'm curious to hear what this is about. I've been dealing with file
widgets in particular a lot recently and have some input on it:
File widgets as in Zope 3 don't behave like text widgets. Basically they
don't behave like any other widgets at all; they're an odd duck out.
This is bad, because:
- for an add form, if something goes wrong and the form is
redisplayed with some validation errors, the uploaded file information
is lost. This is bad because for a required file field, it requires
multiple uploads where one should suffice, and for a non-required file
field, it's even worse, as a user would have no motivation to re-upload
the same file after validation failure and redisplay of the form,
resulting in no file being uploaded at all.
- for an edit form, there is no resubmit of the same data as you'd
see with a text widget where the data hasn't been changed by the user.
Instead there's either no upload, or an upload of a new file. This
behavior is again different than a text widget, which makes programming
harder as the programmer will have to check 'is there a file already
there?' manually in some cases.
I've already solved the validation feedback form problem by storing
files in a session temporarily. This isn't efficient, but I *also*
developed something that will lick that problem and that I'll present in
a lightning talk at the Plone conference.
I'm working on solving the second problem, so that a file is *always*
present in the validated form data no matter whether it only ever
resided on the server in case of an edit form. Basically I emulate the
behavior of the text widget, for the file widget. This way they become a
lot easier to work with.
I'll happily share all that I have, and this mail is just to prevent
work is inadvertently duplicated. Probably you meant to work on
something else, but I figured I'd make sure.
Regards,
Martijn
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