Declaring a Mosaic tile programmatically

ebrehault · November 18, 2016, 6:26am

Actually the declaration was ok, but when the tile type is "app", then we always make a POST when adding the tile:

plone/plone.app.mosaic/blob/master/src/plone/app/mosaic/browser/static/js/mosaic.actions.js#L497


// Load add form form selected tiletype
var initial = true;
utils.loading.show();
$.ajax({
  type: "GET",
  url: $.mosaic.options.context_url +
    '/@@add-tile?tiletype=' + tile_type +
    '&form.button.Create=Create',
  success: function(value, xhr) {
    utils.loading.hide();
    var $value, action_url, authenticator, modalFunc;


    // Read form
    $value = $(value);
    action_url = $value.find('#add_tile').attr('action');
    authenticator = $value.find('[name="_authenticator"]').val();
    // Open add form in modal when requires user input
    modalFunc = function(html) {
      $.mosaic.overlay.app = new Modal($('.mosaic-toolbar'), {
        html: html,
        loadLinksWithinModal: true,

which only works if the tile has a schema.

So basically schema is mandatory when using an app tile.