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1 <!DOCTYPE html>
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2 <html>
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3 <head>
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4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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5 <title>.pspx Template Files</title>
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6 <style type="text/css">
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7 .kbd { font-family: monospace; }
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8 </style>
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9 </head>
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10 <body>
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11 <h1>.pspx Template Files</h1>
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12 <h2>Introduction</h2>
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13 Files ending in a <span class="kbd">.pspx</span> extension define both
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14 routes and templates. The files have two parts: a header and a body.<br>
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15 <h2>The Header</h2>
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16 <p>The header is optional and consists of lines starting with an octothorpe
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17 (#) character. With the exception of the <code>#rem </code>header, all
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18 header lines may appear only once in a given file.</p>
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19 <dl>
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20 <dt><code>#end</code></dt>
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21 <dd>Marks the last line of the headers. Needed only for templating
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22 languages where lines often start with <span class="kbd">#</span>, such
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23 as Cheetah.</dd>
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24 <dt><code>#errors</code></dt>
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25 <dd>Ignore other headers and make this is an error page which handles the
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26 specified HTTP error codes. See the subsection on error pages below. </dd>
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27 <dt><code>#forward</code></dt>
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28 <dd>Ignore everything else in this template (and any code-behind
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29 associated with it), using the specified route to serve it instead. The
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30 route specified with <code>#forward</code> may itself contain a <code>#forward</code>,
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31 but attempts to create a <code>#forward</code> loop are not allowed and
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32 will cause a <span class="kbd">TinCanError</span> to be raised. Note
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33 that unlike calls to <code>app.forward()</code>, the <code>#forward</code>
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34 header is resolved at route-creation time; no extra processing will
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35 happen at request time.</dd>
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36 <dt><code>#hidden</code></dt>
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37 <dd>This is a hidden page; do not create a route for it. The page can only
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38 be displayed by a forward.</dd>
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39 <dt><code>#methods</code></dt>
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40 <dd>A list of HTTP request methods, separated by whitespace, follows. The
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41 route will allow all specified methods. Not specifying this line is
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42 equivalent to specifying <code>#methods GET</code>.</dd>
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43 <dt><code>#python</code></dt>
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44 <dd>What follows is the name of the Python file containing the code-behind
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45 for this route. If not specified, the code-behind will be in a file with
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46 the same name but an extension of <span class="kbd">.py</span>.</dd>
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47 <dt><code>#rem</code></dt>
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48 <dd>The rest of the line is treated as a remark (comment) and is ignored.</dd>
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49 <dt><code>#template</code></dt>
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50 <dd>Ignore the body of this file and instead use the template in the body
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51 of the specified file, which must end in <span class="kbd">.pspx</span>.
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52 Any headers in the referred template file are ignored.</dd>
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53 </dl>
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54 <p>It is possible to include whitespace and special characters in arguments
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55 to the <code>#forward</code>, <code>#python</code>, and <code>#template</code>
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56 headers by using standard Python string quoting and escaping methods. For
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57 example, <code>#python "space case.py"</code>.</p>
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58 <p>Header directives that don't take arguments as a rule simply ignore them.
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59 For example, <code>#end headers</code> has the same effect as <code>#end</code>.
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60 <h3>Error Pages</h3>
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61 <p>Error pages supersede the standard Bottle error handling, and are created
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62 by using the <code>#errors</code> page header. <em>Error pages have no
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63 associated code-behind;</em> they consist of templates only. Error page
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64 templates are provided with two variables when rendering:</p>
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65 <dl>
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66 <dt><code>error</code></dt>
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67 <dd>The <code>bottle.HTTPError</code> object associated with this error.</dd>
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68 <dt><code>request</code></dt>
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69 <dd>The <code>bottle.Request</code> object associated with this error.</dd>
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70 </dl>
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71 <p>The <code>#errors</code> directive takes a list of numeric error codes
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72 (values from 400 to 599 are allowed); the page is created to handle the
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73 specified errors. If no error codes are specified, the page will handle
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74 all errors. The behavior of specifying multiple error pages for the same
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75 error code is undefined; doing so is best avoided.</p>
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76 <h2>The Body</h2>
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77 <p>The body begins with the first line that <em>does not</em> start with <code>#</code>
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78 and has the exact same syntax that the templates are in for this webapp.
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79 By default, Chameleon templates are used. Cheetah, Jinja2, Mako, and
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80 Bottle SimpleTemplate templates are also supported, provided the webapp
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81 was launched to use them. (Only one template style per webapp is
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82 supported.)</p>
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83 <p>In order to make line numbers match file line numbers for reported
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84 errors, the template engine will be passed a blank line for each header
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85 line encountered. TinCan will strip out all leading blank lines when
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86 rendering its responses.</p>
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87 </body>
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88 </html>