Handling Spaces in Content Types

arky · July 30, 2021, 7:32am

Generally spaces in content types makes it difficult to work with API. You will have to encode space using HTML space entities. Perhaps it is a good idea for Plone.restapi to handle these by using underscore '_' instead. Any thoughts or suggestions ?

/@types/Contact Detail
/@types/Contracting Process
/@types/Extractive Concession

zopyx · July 30, 2021, 11:59am

Is this a real-world issue? You can use something like a dotted name or a string without spaces or with underscore as id of a portal_type. This would be used for queries, for the plone.restapi. The title of a portal_type is different field and can be anything...it is only used for display purposes but never for processing purposes...in addition to that: the title can be translated too...I always use something like mypackage.somthing ...e.g. xmldirector.connector for the Connector content type in my xmldirector.connector package.

arky · July 30, 2021, 1:44pm

This is a real world issue:

github.com

Sinar/popolo.contenttypes/blob/master/src/popolo/contenttypes/content/contact_detail.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# from plone.app.textfield import RichText
# from plone.autoform import directives
from plone.dexterity.content import Item
# from plone.namedfile import field as namedfile
from plone.supermodel import model
# from plone.supermodel.directives import fieldset
# from z3c.form.browser.radio import RadioFieldWidget
from zope import schema
from zope.schema.vocabulary import SimpleTerm
from zope.schema.vocabulary import SimpleVocabulary
from zope.interface import implementer

from collective import dexteritytextindexer

from popolo.contenttypes import _

contact_types = SimpleVocabulary(
        [
            SimpleTerm(value=u'cell', title=_(u'Mobile Phone Number')),

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Sinar/popolo.contenttypes/blob/master/src/popolo/contenttypes/profiles/default/types.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<object name="portal_types" meta_type="Plone Types Tool">
  <property name="title">Controls the available contenttypes in your portal</property>
  <!--<object name="example_ct" meta_type="Dexterity FTI"/>-->
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Person"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Organization"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Membership"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Post"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Contact Detail"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Other Name"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Identifier"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Source"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Area"/>
  <object meta_type="Dexterity FTI" name="Relationship"/>
</object>