[Cubicweb] some cubicweb goals for 2010

[Nicolas Chauvat]

Syvlain,

Your time-machine seems to work really well. Would you lend it to me ?
I have a couple things I would like to fix in my past.

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:36:36PM +0200, Sylvain Thénault wrote:
> >   project = _cw.entity_from_eid(1234)
> >   tickets = project.reverse_done_in
> >   self.wview('table', tickets, 'null')
> 
>    project = _cw.entity_from_eid(1234)
>    self.wview('table', project.related('done_in', 'object', 'null'))

Shouldn't project.reverse_done_in return the same thing as
project.related(..) then ?

>    self.build_url(rql=rset.printable_rql())

http://www.cubicweb.org/doc/en/development/devcore/dbapi

Ok, I will read the fine manual.

> >   project = _cw.entity_from_eid(1234)
> >   tickets = project.reverse_done_in
> >   rql = tickets.rql.add('T in_state "open"') # lots of open questions here
> 
> we already to such kind of things heavily, using the rql st api. There
> are already high level methods to do things such as adding a restriction
> (could be improved though).
> 
>    project = _cw.entity_from_eid(1234)
>    rset = project.related('done_in', 'object', 'null')
>    union = rset.syntax_tree().children[0] # first Union node
>    self.add_constant_restriction(union.get_variable('X'), 'type', 'bug', 'String')
>    rql = union.as_string()

This would deserve a proper thread, but here are a couple comments:

* does rset.syntax_tree() really need to be a method ?

* does self.add_constant_restriction(...) really have to be a method
  of self, I would expect to find it on the syntax_tree object or on
  a RQLHandler object that would manipulate the syntax_tree as in

    project = _cw.entity_from_eid(1234)
    rset = project.related('done_in', 'object', 'null')
    tree = rset.syntax_tree
    tree.add_constant_restriction(tree.children[0].get_variable('X'), 'type', 'bug', 'String')
    rql = tree.as_string()

or
    project = _cw.entity_from_eid(1234)
    rset = project.related('done_in', 'object', 'null')
    handler = RQLHandler(rset.syntax_tree)
    handler.add_constant_restriction(tree.children[0].get_variable('X'), 'type', 'bug', 'String')
    rql = tree.as_string()

-- 
Nicolas Chauvat

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