Docu request: Kitchen sink demo about ponzu

[nilslice]

@fbaube - very glad to hear it is working for you now.

In order to use Ponzu with Buffalo or any other web framework, you need to think of Ponzu as the data layer (DB/backend/etc) and Buffalo as the frontend. You will make HTTP calls to fetch your Ponzu CMS data from the controllers/models in the frontend, and use that JSON data to populate your views with content or conversely send data to Ponzu from Buffalo in a controller/model via the same HTTP API.

Since your Ponzu content types are all exported from the content package, you can easily re-use them in any other Go app, so unmarshaling your JSON from a Ponzu API response back into Go structs is simple: import the content package from your Ponzu project and use your content types.

At the moment, I do not have plans to make a video for Ponzu+Buffalo specifically, but I am working on a set of videos to show how one might use Ponzu with a smaller web framework (maybe in Go, maybe not) or just net/http to make a simple frontend that talks to Ponzu over HTTP.

I believe the GopherCon website is the current best available combination of Ponzu+Buffalo:

• Buffalo app (website frontend): https://github.com/gopheracademy/gcon
• Ponzu CMS (database backend): https://github.com/gopheracademy/gccms

You can see how they import the Ponzu content types from within the Buffalo models package:
https://github.com/gopheracademy/gcon/blob/master/models/workshop.go#L6 and @bketelsen wrote an optional, but super useful cache & content API generator to work with Ponzu data:
https://github.com/bketelsen/ponzi
https://github.com/bketelsen/ponzigen

That's about all I can offer from a "how to use" Ponzu+Buffalo, so I hope it helps.. Both the #buffalo and #ponzu channels on the Gopher's Slack are pretty active with people who can help. So I'd suggest that those be the next places you check for more specific questions. I'm happy to help, but don't know much about Buffalo specifically.

Steve

thats all.
looks really useful. Will give it a whirl now

[fbaube]

I have this in content/myfields.go:

type Myfields struct {
        item.Item
        Mytitle      string   `json:"mytitle"`
        Myrich1      string   `json:"myrich1"`
        Myrich2      string   `json:"myrich2"`
        Myrich3      string   `json:"myrich3"`
        Mystringlist []string `json:"mystringlist"`
        Mycheckbox   string   `json:"mycheckbox"`
        Myfile       string   `json:"myfile"`
        Myselect     string   `json:"myselect"`
        Mytags       string   `json:"mytags"`
        Mytextarea   string   `json:"mytextarea"`
        Mytimestamp  string   `json:"mytimestamp"`
}

I assume I have some incorrect values in the code block above (all the "string" entries), but it's generating a UI without any visible errors (except, there is no UI widget generated for the "[]string" item).

I'll keep experimenting :)

[nilslice]

Hey - I'm traveling back from vacation, and am just now seeing your comments. I have some new code to release that will help, and am planning to do a series of videos once the APIs are locked down. All UI is done in the MarshalEditor() func, would you be able to share that?

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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 08:00 F.Baube ***@***.***> wrote: I have this in content/myfields.go: type Myfields struct { item.Item Mytitle string `json:"mytitle"` Myrich1 string `json:"myrich1"` Myrich2 string `json:"myrich2"` Myrich3 string `json:"myrich3"` Mystringlist []string `json:"mystringlist"` Mycheckbox string `json:"mycheckbox"` Myfile string `json:"myfile"` Myselect string `json:"myselect"` Mytags string `json:"mytags"` Mytextarea string `json:"mytextarea"` Mytimestamp string `json:"mytimestamp"` } I assume I have some incorrect values in the code block above (all the "string" entries), but it's generating a UI without any visible errors (except, there is no UI widget generated for the "[]string" item). I'll keep experimenting :) — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#106 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHK1S1ygRKlWslyk1PSFQ_z49jNNMok2ks5rr43JgaJpZM4Ms7T3> .

[fbaube]

Like, just paste in the whole thing ?

[nilslice]

The more the merrier :)

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[fbaube]

Here's my content/myfields.go. Note that I did not use "ponzu gen" for this; I hacked it custom.

myfields.go.txt

[nilslice]

I don't see an editor.Field for your Mystrunglist []string - is this the one that has no UI?

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[fbaube]

Ah, right you are, I added an entry and it appeared. But the widget only displays as a single text field, so are the list entries separated by whitespace ?

[nilslice]

Glad it worked! Try using an `editor.InputRepeater` func instead of an `editor.Input` Also, keep in mind that you don't necessarily need to use the HTML helper funcs from the editor package - though they are specifically tuned to be useful for the CMS. Any []byte will be rendered as long as you append them to the return value of MarshalEditor, so the sky's the limit ;)

[fbaube]

The new "gen c" syntax works nicely. After the following command, and "ponzu build", I only had to go in and change the editor for "mystringlist" from Input(..) to InputRepeater(..).The UI looks fine; I'll exercise it next. Now I'm curious how it all integrates with Buffalo, mainly bcos Buffalo's DB access layer is based on "sqlx"; is there any chance of that video demo happening soon ?

ponzu gen c myfields
mytitle:string:text
mydesc:string:textarea
myrich1:string:richtext
myrich2:string:richtext
myrich3:string:richtext
mystringlist:"[]string"
mycheckbox:string:checkbox
myfile:string:file
myselect:string:select

[nilslice]

@fbaube - I finally have a walk-through introduction to Ponzu recorded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_1ncPoLgrg

I hope its helpful! Feel free to comment here after I close the issue.

[iharsuvorau]

@nilslice the video is very helpful to start and get the overall understanding

but it seems that it is worth to have the 'kitchen sink' example somewhere written in the docs, because it's not very convenient to navigate the video to find, for example, the checkbox usage example, it would be better to work with searchable text

by the way, I've noticed that the General Usage command example:

$ ponzu gen content review title:"string" body:"string":richtext rating:"int"

produces:

type Review struct {
    item.Item

    Title  string   `json:"title"`
    Body   string   `json:"body"`
    Rating int      `json:"rating"`
    Tags   []string `json:"tags"`
}

The field Tags wasn't mentioned in the command but exists in the struct. It seems like a little bit confusing.

[nilslice]

@iharsuvorau - thanks for calling that out, I can definitely edit it unless you want to open a PR to remove the Tags field from the struct in the docs?

[iharsuvorau]

@nilslice I'm trying to push but have the same error as in #192:

$  git push origin ponzu-dev

remote: Permission to ponzu-cms/ponzu.git denied to iharsuvorau.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/ponzu-cms/ponzu/': The requested URL returned error: 403

.git/config:

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
	ignorecase = true
	precomposeunicode = true
[remote "origin"]
	url = https://github.com/ponzu-cms/ponzu
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/master
[branch "ponzu-dev"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/ponzu-dev

[nilslice]

@iharsuvorau - thank you! you'll need to make a pull request on the Github repo page itself, not through Git. Fork the repo, clone it and checkout a ponzu-dev branch, make your changes locally, then push to your repo. Then open a PR to ponzu, to merge into the ponzu-dev branch from your ponzu-dev branch.