Creating A Package

Giving our forms a home

For the purposes of this tutorial, we will create a simple package that adds the necessary dependencies.

If you have an existing package that requires a form, you should be able to add the same dependencies.

For details about creating new packages, see Bootstrapping Plone add-on development.

Note

Using paster is deprecated instead you should use bobtemplates.plone

Deprecated since version may_2015: Use bobtemplates.plone instead

First, we create a new package in src:

../bin/mrbob -O example.form bobtemplates:plone_addon

We create a package from the Basic template for Plone 5.0-latest.

We will add example.form later as development egg to our buildout. Before we use the autogenerated buildout of the package itself.

Take a look at buildout.cfg at the top level of our newly created package. You will find there various useful things:

• instance with your package added to the eggs

• code analysis

• a test runner

• even a robot test runner

• and a releaser

That is everything you need for development. Let us use this buildout.

cd example.form/
python bootstrap-buildout.py
bin/buildout

Let us test it!

bin/test -s example.form
bin/test -s example.form -t test_example.robot --all

Our package shall add a form to our Plone site. We use plone.app.z3cform to develop the form.

That is why we add it to install_requires in setup.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Installer for the example.form package."""

from setuptools import find_packages
from setuptools import setup


long_description = (
    open('README.rst').read()
    + '\n' +
    'Contributors\n'
    '============\n'
    + '\n' +
    open('CONTRIBUTORS.rst').read()
    + '\n' +
    open('CHANGES.rst').read()
    + '\n')


setup(
    name='example.form',
    version='0.1',
    description="An add-on for Plone",
    long_description=long_description,
    # Get more from http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
    classifiers=[
        "Environment :: Web Environment",
        "Framework :: Plone",
        "Framework :: Plone :: 5.0-latest",
        "Programming Language :: Python",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7",
    ],
    keywords='Python Plone',
    author='John Doe',
    author_email='john@doe.org',
    url='http://pypi.python.org/pypi/example.form',
    license='GPL',
    packages=find_packages('src', exclude=['ez_setup']),
    namespace_packages=['example'],
    package_dir={'': 'src'},
    include_package_data=True,
    zip_safe=False,
    install_requires=[
        'plone.api',
        'setuptools',
        'z3c.jbot',
        'plone.app.z3cform',
    ],
    extras_require={
        'test': [
            'plone.app.testing',
            'plone.app.contenttypes',
            'plone.app.robotframework[debug]',
        ],
    },
    entry_points="""
    [z3c.autoinclude.plugin]
    target = plone
    """,
)

and add plone.app.z3cform’s import step to our profile’s metadata.xml for an automated installation.

<metadata>
    <version>1000</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>profile-plone.app.z3cform:default</dependency>
    </dependencies>
</metadata>

We have omitted large parts of the buildout configuration here.

The important things to note are:

• We have created a plone 5 add-on using mr.bob.

• We have tested the egg in a Plone test environment using the autogenerated buildout.cfg of our package.

• We have added dependencies to the egg.