Adding a CMS to Your Pyramid Web App Transcripts
Chapter: Redirects and the admin section
Lecture: Loading initial values in viewmodel

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0:00 Let's go over into this and write this bit of code again. Now, in the add case, there's no data initially provided.
0:01 But in the edit case, remember, the URL is passing over the ID of the redirect we want to edit.
0:01 And that means we can write this or maybe that rather and this will be self.request_dict. So this is going to give us the ID if we're editing one.
0:01 Otherwise it's going to give us none just like we had. And here we can say, if 'self.redirect.id' then we want to set some more values, right?
0:01 We want to get the id and 'self.redirect'. I guess we could go and just get this. Let's say CMSService.get_redirect_by_id.
0:01 Let's make sure we're checking that this, if it's empty, redirect by id. 'if not redirect_by_id: return None'.
0:01 Alright, if we pass and nothing, we expect nothing back. Just so we don't have to check it.
1:01 Here you will get the redirect and we'll just say if there is a redirect, we want to actually copy those values
1:01 over so they can start from seeing those values and then edit them. So this will be short URLs and the others are going to be similar.
1:01 All right, get those And the redirect url, redirect ids are already set. Perfect. Think this actually might already do it?
1:01 There's a few little things we're gonna have to touch up later to make it perfect, but this is really close. If I got it right.
1:01 Well, let's go over here. Go to our admin section. View the redirects. We've seen we can already add them. Let's go ahead and just add test...
1:01 Oh, I'll add my little talkPython one back. Right. Here it is. Let's suppose we can edit it. All right, Well ah, didn't totally work.
1:01 We have our edit redirect five here.
2:01 why is this not coming up? Good time to check out our debugger isn't it?
2:01 Make sure that's hitting the right one. Yeah, it's coming here and you see, here is the URL. Everything looks fine with that.
2:01 Redirect ID? It's five, okay. You know what I think? I think it's something super tricky. Watch this. It's going to be frustrating.
2:01 Okay, so we come in here. If we look at this, you can see there's ID but notice there's no quotes on the 2.
2:01 There's just the value 2. More relevantly, if we go further. You know, we just look at the redirects.
2:01 Expand it. The items all have numbers, not strings.
2:01 So what we're doing here is we're comparing a number to a string which is never okay, Never gonna match. So let's just do it like this.
2:01 Alright, I think we should have this working. Now, let's go and do it again.
3:01 Over admin, let's just edit one that exists now, so it's edit courses. Oh, yeah. Look at that. There's the courses.
3:01 This will be, I'll put talkPython courses, for example, that should when I hit, 'create'.
3:01 Notice, this is one of the little things we gotta work on. It will push that back to the edit should change this, let's see.
3:01 Oh our validation is kicking in. Yes. So let's go and lock that.
3:01 Down here we're saying if we're trying to create one, then we got to check that it already exists. We should say, 'if not self.redirect'.
3:01 And this maybe like that. so 'self.redirect' What could say that's the best way to make this clear?
3:01 We also need to say this if there is a redirect and it doesn't exist, redirect with URL was not found.
3:01 So if they're trying to create a new one, we need to check for one like it already existing.
4:01 If we're trying to edit an old one, it had better already exist. Okay, let's try this again. Resubmit our form. Maybe it'll work this time.
4:01 Yeah, it does. And check it out. It's edited right there. Let's edit it some more. Let's just put all those classes.
4:01 Oh yes, we need to dio slightly different tests over there. Let's just edit where it goes. Question mark equals true or something like that.
4:01 Alright. Now, if we test this or even look at the bottom, we've edited it.
4:01 Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Send us over there and the title is perfect. We're able to edit that.
4:01 The one thing that we saw was that we're not yet able to edit this. We're somehow not relying on that ID, which doesn't change ever. Enough!
4:01 And so let's do this will say 'get_redirected_by_ID(redirect_ID)'.
4:01 That's the one we want and what probably should say down here with ID whatever it is.
5:01 All right, Last chance. Let's see if we can edit that URL that short euro in our thing. Otherwise it's working.
5:01 OK, here's the redirects. So let's make this course is exclamation mark and, ironically, we'll call this "classes".
5:01 and we'll edit this as well and say question mark final equals Yes. All right, can we change it so that we can redirect through '/classes'?
5:01 Woo! It's looking pretty good. Here's the final euro, but let's the real test is typing '/classes' up here isn't it. '/classes' Ready? Course it works.
5:01 Beautiful, our little CMS backend, while it took a little bit to get it up and off the ground. Maybe took a few minutes.
5:01 This is the same thing we're gonna do for pages.
5:01 This is like the blueprint for everything we're going to do in the rest of the class in terms of our admin backend.
5:01 But we're going to extend that, of course, with rich editing and all sorts of cool stuff. When we get to pages, but there it is.
5:01 We were able to go over here. Go to our admin, and now we can edit our classes. We could even put it back to courses.


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