Create a field in a Plomino form programmatically

[AshRaghav]

Hi @ebrehault,

I am sorry if this sounds utterly absurd but is there a way to create a new field in a form programmatically?

I wanted a web-shop product add-on for our Plone instance but I couldn't find one that is neither recent nor fully functional which means I am relying on Plomino to help me semi-automate the construction of one.

Thanks

[djay]

Fields are just dexterity types (in plomino 2). Forms are also a dexterity type with a layout field which you can edit to insert the right markup for the field to show up. So you can just use normal dexterity apis. You can do it from JS via plone.restapi.

[AshRaghav]

Thanks @djay - unfortunately we are still running 1.19.4 and I assume your suggestion may not work there?

I'll still have a look at Restapi to learn about its functioning.

[djay]

@AshRaghav plone.rest won't work. The python apis for plomino 1 are similar to what I describe above but the objects are Archetype objects, so just look at that api.

[djay]

@AshRaghav also have a look at the plomino code base, esp the tests. There are lots of examples of creating forms and fields in the doctests.