[Kss-devel] Marshalling of form data

[Hedley Roos]

This applies to azax 1.1.alpha1

I am working on a project using PloneAzax and I make use of marshalling 
(:list, :record, :records) in my page templates. Azax cannot handle 
this, which means that in my Python scripts I do not have access to the 
structures. There are other ugly solutions like assembling special tag 
attributes and decoding them, but I wanted a clean solution.

I heavily modified forms.js and kukit.js and made a single char change 
to resourcedata.js. See attached patches and examples to understand the 
discussion below.

In my KSS file I had to make use of a naming convention. For exmaple 
consider the line

kss_MarshallTest-value_record|record: currentFormVar('arecord:record')

I have to name the form var with its marshalling, hence arecord:record. 
The actual form elements will be called something like 
arecord.foo:record of course.

And I had to use a pipe in value_record|record since a colon breaks the 
KSS parsing. The |record denotes the marshal type.

The page templates and scripts are for use in a Plone site. I didn't 
have time to strip Plone away and use only Zope for the test page.

My additions do not seem to break anything.

Oh, the regexp's in the Javascript are not very elegant. Sorry. And I 
can't handle :int marshalling yet. Todo.
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