Testing the form

Seeing the form in action

The schema and (grokked) form view is all that’s needed to create the first iteration of the form. We can now install our new package and test the form.

First, we make sure that we have run bin/buildout so that the new package is available to the Zope instance script. We then start up Zope in foreground mode:

bin/instance fg

Next, we create or go to a Plone site, and install the new Example forms product via the new Plone site creation form or the Add-ons control panel. This should also install the product called Plone z3c.form support (from the plone.app.z3cform package) as a dependency.

We haven’t created any links to the form yet (though you could do so in a content item or portlet by inserting a manually-entered URL), but the form can be visited by going to the @@order-pizza view on the Plone site root, e.g.:

http://localhost:8080/Plone/@@order-pizza

It should look something like this:

Try to fill in the form and use the two buttons. You should see the validation (both on-the-fly and after submit if you ignore the on-the-fly warnings), as well a message printed to the console if a valid form is submitted when clicking the Order button.

Remember: We have worked so far in a development environment of the package itself. Now you want to insert example.form to your project’s buildout. It should look just similiar to the packages buildout.

[buildout]
extends = http://dist.plone.org/release/5.0-latest/versions.cfg
extensions = mr.developer
parts =
    instance
    test
    code-analysis
    releaser
develop = src/example.form


[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
user = admin:admin
http-address = 8080
eggs =
    Plone
    Pillow
    example.form [test]


[code-analysis]
recipe = plone.recipe.codeanalysis
directory = ${buildout:directory}/src/example
flake8-exclude = bootstrap.py,bootstrap-buildout.py,docs,*.egg.,omelette
flake8-max-complexity = 15
flake8-extensions =
    flake8-blind-except
    flake8-debugger
    flake8-coding

[omelette]
recipe = collective.recipe.omelette
eggs = ${instance:eggs}


[test]
recipe = zc.recipe.testrunner
eggs = ${instance:eggs}
defaults = ['-s', 'example.form', '--auto-color', '--auto-progress']


[robot]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs =
    ${test:eggs}
    plone.app.robotframework[debug,ride,reload]

[releaser]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs = zest.releaser


[versions]
setuptools = 18.0.1
zc.buildout = 2.2.5
zc.recipe.egg = 2.0.1

flake8 = 2.3.0

robotframework = 2.8.4
robotframework-ride = 1.3
robotframework-selenium2library = 1.6.0
robotsuite = 1.6.1
selenium = 2.46.0

[sources]
example.form = fs example.form