Generating code
At this stage, we have drawn the definitions for a new content type based on Plone's default News Item but with some differences: there's a lead field, a country field, and a modified relatedItems field. There's also a new countryVocabulary method that will provide the country options list for that field.
To turn all these drawings into a Plone usable content type, we must finally use ArchGenXML.
How to do it…
- Save the model as
poxContentTypes.zargoinside themodelsfolder we created before. - Go to your ArchGenXML
modelsfolder and run:cd ~/libexec/archgenxml/models ../bin/archgenxml ./poxContentTypes.zargo
- If everything is okay, you'll get an output similar to this:
INFO ArchGenXML Version 2.4.1
(c) 2003-2009 BlueDynamics Alliance, Austria, GPL 2.0 or later
INFO Directories to search for profiles: ['~/archgenxml/profiles']
INFO Parsing...
INFO Profile files: '{u'archgenxml_profile.xmi': u'~/archgenxml/profiles/archgenxml_profile.xmi'}'
INFO Directory in which we're generating the files: ''.
INFO Generating...
INFO Starting new Product: 'poxContentTypes'.
INFO Generating package 'content'.
INFO Generating class 'XNewsItem'.
INFO generator run took 1.00 sec.
- After this, you'll see a new
poxContentTypesfolder insidemodelswith a main structure like:poxContentTypes
+ content
+ locales
+ profiles
+ skins
- __init__.py
- config.py
- configure.zcml
- profiles.zcml
- refresh.txt
- setuphandlers.py
There's more…
We suggest you to:
- Browse and see the generated code to start getting used to it, especially
XNewsItem.pyfile. - Continue with the great ArchGenXML documentation to explore even more of its features:
See also
- Adding i18ndude support to ArchGenXML