[triangle-zpug] report on *last* Plone Jam - 6 Feb 2008 at TOT in Morrisville

[Josh Johnson]

Damnit, I should have come to the last plone jam :P

I've been doing some very bad things with Plone 3 and AGX over the past 
month or two. When Plone 3.0.5 came out I tried running some AGX 
1.6-generated code in it - the Install.py was broken. Worked ok in 
3.0.3, didn't in 3.0.5.

So, I decided to give AGX 2.0-beta9 (aka the egg in the cheeseshop) a 
go, and got "better" results. Then I tried to define all of my unit 
tests into my model as I migrated my method bodies.

That just plain didn't work. The templates AGX uses for unit tests were 
heavily broken... so I fixed 'em. I also had to make some changes to the 
base generator script, to do things like keep it from duplicating 
inherited methods in the test cases.

I've been meaning to submit a patch to the AGX bug tracker, but haven't yet.

JJ

Mark R. Biggers wrote:
> [ Please come to tonight's! http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/feb-08-jam2 ]
>
> -- What we (Jim, Rob, me, and "Plone-newbie" Joshua Smith) did do:
>
> () Rob attempted a walkthrough of his talk "Tail Wags Fangs".  He has some
>    good bits in there, and also found some holes to fix.  We had a Plone
>    newbie show up, and it seemed a good thing to try out on him :) ...
>
> () Rob and I had Plone3 buildouts set-up.  We attempted to "deploy" two
>    Plone2 products, both generated from Argo/ArchGenXML, to his Plone3 site:
>    (1) a new product-version, of his L.I.M.S. system
>    (2) the "example" Plone2 product from the newest ArchGenXML release.
>
>    Neither would load.  We don't know the GenericSetup/ZCML juju, to have
>    Plone3 accept these products.
>
> () I wanted to show Rob how to modify the UML for the AxGen-example, to add
>    unit-test "classes" to the diagram, and then have AxGen generate the
>    u-test stubs.
>    Purpose: to get Rob used to running u-tests, even just the stubs, to see
>    if a Product in development, will even load (valid Python & Plone code).
>
>    For some silly reason, the AxGen-example has a completely broken u-test
>    UML module!  It would do everyone who uses AxGen a favor, to fix this and
>    have at least u-test stubs generated, when generating code from the UML!
>
> () Joshua (NCSU Physics) detailed his interest in getting LaTeX-based
>    content into a Plone portal site.  He's exploring plasTeX, a Python
>    based LaTeX => DOM converter.  (I should remember more of this, but
>    I was quite focused on Rob and my interests... sorry!)
>
>
> -- So, speaking for myself - Rob, Jim and Joshua can chime in as they
>    so desire - I would like to "jam on":
>
> () Getting the AxGen-example UML fixed (u-test UML), then run the Product's
>    u-tests on at least a Plone2 site.  Here's my usual drill, on a P2
>    Unified-Installer site:
>
>    cd client2
>    bin/zopectl test -vv -m Products.MyPloneProduct 2>&1 | tee log/tests.log
>
>    I am not sure the u-tests will run at all - without a ZCML "slug" - on a
>    Plone3 site.
>    Q: can AxGen be made to generate some "portion" of the P3 ZCML "slug", as
>    a helpful timesaver?  I will investigate.
>
> () Using a "fixed" AxGen-example (UML) Product, figure out what ZCML is
>    needed to make it install on a Plone3 site.
>
> () Run the AxGen-example Product's unit-tests - any difference in how-to? -- 
>   on the P3 site
>
>
> Perhaps this isn't so interesting for everyone, but Rob (I think) and I want
> to figure this out, at least.  We're not up-to-speed on pure Plone3 products
> yet.
>
>
> Thank you,
> ----mark
>
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