This package implements the 'blocks' rendering model, by providing several transform stages that hook into plone.transformchain.
The rendering stages are:
- plone.app.blocks.parsexml (order 8000)
Turns the response in a
repoze.xmliterXMLSerializerobject. This is then used by the subsequent stages. If the input is not HTML, the transformation is aborted.- plone.app.blocks.mergepanels (order 8100)
Looks up the site layout and executes the panel merge algorithm. Sets a request variable ('plone.app.blocks.merged') to indicate that it has done its job.
- plone.app.blocks.tiles (order 8500)
Resolve tiles and place them directly into the merged layout. This is the fallback for views that do not opt into ITilePageRendered.
- plone.app.blocks.esirender (order 8900)
Only executed if the request key
plone.app.blocks.esiis set and has a true value, as would be the case if any ESI-rendered tiles are included and ESI rendering is enabled globally. This step will serialise the response down to a string and perform some substitution to make ESI rendering work.
The package also registers the sitelayout plone.resource resource type, allowing site layouts to be created easily as static HTML files served from resource directories. The URL to a site layout is typically something like:
/++sitelayout++my.layout/site.htmlSee plone.resource for more information about how to register resource directories. For site layouts, the type of the resource directory is sitelayout.
It is possible to provide a manifest file that gives a title, description and alternative default file for a site layout HTML file in a resource directory. To create such a manifest, put a manifest.cfg file in the layout directory with the following structure:
[sitelayout]
title = My layout title
description = Some description
file = some-html-file.htmlAll keys are optional. The file defaults to site.html.
A vocabulary factory called plone.availableSiteLayouts is registered to allow lookup of all registered site layouts. The terms in this vocabulary use the URL as a value, the resource directory name as a token, and the title from the manifest (falling back on a sanitised version of the resource directory name) as the title.
The current default site layout can be identified by the plone.registry key plone.defaultSiteLayout, which is set to None by default. To always use the current site default, use:
<html data-layout="./@@default-site-layout">The @@default-site-layout view will render the current default site layout.
It is possible for the default site layout to be overridden per section, by having parent objects provide or be adaptable to plone.app.blocks.layoutbehavior.ILayoutAware. As the module name implies, this interface can be used as a plone.behavior behavior, but it can also be implemented directly or used as a standard adapter.
The ILayoutAware interface defines three properties:
content, which contains the body of the page to be renderedpageSiteLayout, which contains the path to the site layout to be used for the given page. It can beNoneif the default is to be used.sectionSiteLayout, which contains the path to the site layout to be used for pages underneath the given page (but not for the page itself). Again, it can beNoneif the default is to be used.
To make use of the page site layout, use the following:
<html data-layout="./@@default-site-layout">See rendering.txt for detailed examples of how the processing is applied, and esi.txt for details about how Edge Side Includes can be supported.