It can be found in (cubicweb.web.views.editcontroller). This controller processes data received from an html form to create or update entities.
The parameters related to entities to edit are specified as follows (first seen in The attributes section):
<rtype-role>:<entity eid>
where entity eid could be a letter in case of an entity to create. We name those parameters as qualified.
Retrieval of entities to edit is done by using the forms parameters eid and __type
For all the attributes and the relations of an entity to edit (attributes and relations are handled a bit differently but these details are not much relevant here) :
- using the rtype, role and __type information, fetch an appropriate field instance
- check if the field has been modified (if not, proceed to the next relation)
- build an rql expression to update the entity
At the end, all rql expressions are executed.
For each entity to edit:
if a qualified parameter __linkto is specified, its value has to be a string (or a list of strings) such as:
<relation type>:<eids>:<target>where <target> is either subject or object and each eid could be separated from the others by a _. Target specifies if the edited entity is subject or object of the relation and each relation specified will be inserted.
if a qualified parameter __clone_eid is specified for an entity, the relations of the specified entity passed as value of this parameter are copied on the edited entity.
if a qualified parameter __delete is specified, its value must be a string or a list of string such as follows:
<subjects eids>:<relation type>:<objects eids>where each eid subject or object can be seperated from the other by _. Each specified relation will be deleted.
If no entity is edited but the form contains the parameters __linkto and eid, this one is interpreted by using the value specified for eid to designate the entity on which to add the relations.
Note
Once editing is completed, there is still an issue left: where should we go now? If nothing is specified, the controller will do his job but it does not mean we will be happy with the result. We can control that by using the following parameters:
In general we use either __redirectpath and __redirectparams or __redirectrql and __redirectvid.