- TurboGears - Deployment
- TurboGears - Restful Applications
- TurboGears - Pluggable Applications
- TurboGears - Writing Extensions
- TurboGears - Hooks
- TurboGears - Scaffolding
- TurboGears - Using MongoDB
- Authorization & Authentication
- TurboGears - Admin Access
- TurboGears - Pagination
- TurboGears - DataGrid
- TurboGears - Crud Operations
- TurboGears - Creating Models
- TurboGears - Sqlalchemy
- TurboGears - Caching
- TurboGears - Cookies and Sessions
- TurboGears - Flash Messages
- TurboGears - Validation
- TurboGears - Toscawidgets Forms
- TurboGears - URL Hierarchy
- TurboGears - JSON Rendering
- TurboGears - Includes
- Genshi Template Language
- TurboGears - HTTP Methods
- TurboGears - Serving Templates
- TurboGears - Dependencies
- TurboGears - First Program
- TurboGears - Environment
- TurboGears - Overview
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- HR Interview Questions
- Effective Resume Writing
- Questions and Answers
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
TurboGears – CRUD Operations
The following session methods perform CRUD Operations −
DBSession.add(model object) − inserts a record into mapped table.
DBSession.delete(model object) − deletes record from the table.
DBSession.query(model).all() − retrieves all the records from table (corresponding to a SELECT query).
You can apply filter to the retrieved record set by using a filter attribute. For instance, in order to retrieve records with city = ’Hyderabad’ in students table, use the following statement −
DBSession.query(model.student).filter_by(city = ’Hyderabad’).all()
We shall now see how to interact with the models through controller URLs.
First let us design a ToscaWidgets form for entering the student’s data
Hellohellocontrollers.studentform.py
import tw2.core as twc import tw2.forms as twf class StudentForm(twf.Form): class child(twf.TableLayout): name = twf.TextField(size = 20) city = twf.TextField() address = twf.TextArea("",rows = 5, cols = 30) pincode = twf.NumberField() action = /save_record submit = twf.SubmitButton(value = Submit )
In the RootController (root.py of Hello apppcation), add the following function mapping ‘/add’ URL −
from hello.controllers.studentform import StudentForm class RootController(BaseController): @expose( hello.templates.studentform ) def add(self, *args, **kw): return dict(page= studentform , form = StudentForm)
Save the following HTML code as studentform.html in the templates folder −
<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:py = "http://genshi.edgewall.org/" lang = "en"> <head> <title>Student Registration Form</title> </head> <body> <span id = "getting_started"> ${form.display(value = dict(title = Enter data ))} </span> </body> </html>
Enter http://localhost:8080/add in the browser after starting the server. The following Student information form will open up in the browser −
The above form is designed to be submitted to the ‘/save_record’ URL. Hence a save_record() function needs to be added in the root.py to expose it. The data from the studentform is received by this function as a dict() object. It is used to add a new record in the student table underlying student model.
@expose() #@vapdate(form = AdmissionForm, error_handler = index1) def save_record(self, **kw): newstudent = student(name = kw[ name ],city = kw[ city ], address = kw[ address ], pincode = kw[ pincode ]) DBSession.add(newstudent) flash(message = "new entry added successfully") redirect("/pstrec")
Please note that after the successful addition, the browser will be redirected to ‘/pstrec’ URL. This URL is exposed by a pstrec() function. This function selects all records in the student table and sends them in the form of a dict object to the studentpst.html template. This pstrec() function is as follows −
@expose ("hello.templates.studentpst") def pstrec(self): entries = DBSession.query(student).all() return dict(entries = entries)
The studentpst.html template iterates through the entries dictionary object using py:for directive. The studentpst.html template is as follows −
<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:py = "http://genshi.edgewall.org/"> <head> <pnk rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" media = "screen" href = "${tg.url( /css/style.css )}" /> <title>Welcome to TurboGears</title> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to TurboGears</h1> <py:with vars = "flash = tg.flash_obj.render( flash , use_js = False)"> <span py:if = "flash" py:replace = "Markup(flash)" /> </py:with> <h2>Current Entries</h2> <table border = 1 > <thead> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th>City</th> <th>Address</th> <th>Pincode</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <py:for each = "entry in entries"> <tr> <td>${entry.name}</td> <td>${entry.city}</td> <td>${entry.address}</td> <td>${entry.pincode}</td> </tr> </py:for> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>
Now revisit the http://localhost:8080/add and enter data in the form. By cpcking on the submit button, it will take the browser to studentpst.html. It will also flash a ‘new record added successfully’ message.
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