Web Frontend Development

In this chapter, we will describe the core APIs for web development in the CubicWeb framework.

• Publisher
  • CubicWebPublisher API
• Controllers
  • Overview
  • Registration
  • Concrete controllers
• The Request class (cubicweb_web.request)
  • Overview
  • API
• RQL search bar
  • How search is performed
• The View system
  • Principles
  • Templates
  • The Primary View
  • The “Click and Edit” (also reledit) View
  • Base views
  • Startup views
  • Boxes
  • Table views
  • XML and RSS views
  • URL publishing
  • URL rewriting
  • Breadcrumbs
  • The ‘download’ views
  • Online documentation system
• Configuring the user interface
  • Relation tags
  • The uicfg module
  • The uihelper module
• Ajax
• Javascript
  • Conventions
  • Server-side Javascript API
  • Javascript events
  • Important javascript AJAX APIS
  • A simple example with asyncRemoteExec
  • Anatomy of a reloadComponent call
  • A simple reloadComponent example
  • Anatomy of a loadxhtml call
  • A simple example with loadxhtml
  • A more real-life example
  • Javascript library: overview
  • API
  • Testing javascript
• CSS Stylesheet
  • Conventions
  • Extending / overriding existing styles
  • CubicWeb stylesheets
• Edition control
  • HTML form construction
  • Dissection of an entity form
  • The form validation process
  • The edit controller
  • Examples
• The facets system
  • Base classes for facets
• Internationalization
  • String internationalization
  • Handling the translation catalog
  • Customizing the messages extraction process
  • Editing po files
• The property mecanism
  • Property API
  • Registering and using your own property
• HTTP cache management
  • Cache policies
  • Exception
  • Helper functions
• Locate resources
• Static files handling