Fields

Guillotina uses schemas to define content types and behaviors. These schemas consist of field definitions.

Available fields

• guillotina.schema.Bool
• guillotina.schema.Bytes
• guillotina.schema.Choice: validates against vocabulary of values
• guillotina.schema.Date
• guillotina.schema.Datetime
• guillotina.schema.Decimal
• guillotina.schema.Dict
• guillotina.schema.Float
• guillotina.schema.Int
• guillotina.schema.JSONField
• guillotina.schema.List
• guillotina.schema.Set
• guillotina.schema.Text
• guillotina.schema.TextLine
• guillotina.schema.Time
• guillotina.fields.PatchField: allow updating value without patching entire value
• guillotina.fields.BucketListField: optimized storage for very large lists of data
• guillotina.fields.BucketDictField: optimized storage for very large dictionaries of data
• guillotina.files.CloudFileField: file field for storing in db or cloud storage

Patch field

Guillotina provides a PatchField which allows you to patch values of List, Dict and Int fields without having the original value.

Patch field list

from zope.interface import Interface
from guillotina.fields import PatchField
from guillotina import schema

class IMySchema(Interface):
    values = PatchField(schema.List(
        value_type=schema.Text()
    ))

Then, payload for patching to append to this list would look like:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "append",
        "value": "foobar"
    }
}

Append if unique value only:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "appendunique",
        "value": "foobar"
    }
}

Extend:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "extend",
        "value": ["foo", "bar"]
    }
}

Extend if unique values:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "extendunique",
        "value": ["foo", "bar"]
    }
}

Delete:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "del",
        "value": 0
    }
}

Remove:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "remove",
        "value": "foobar"
    }
}

Update:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "update",
        "value": {
            "index": 0,
            "value": "Something new"
        }
    }
}

Patch dict field

from zope.interface import Interface
from guillotina.fields import PatchField
from guillotina import schema

class IMySchema(Interface):
    values = PatchField(schema.Dict(
        key_type=schema.Text(),
        value_type=schema.Text()
    ))

Then, payload for patching to add to this dict would look like:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "assign",
        "value": {
            "key": "foo",
            "value": "bar"
        }
    }
}

Delete:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "del",
        "value": "foo"
    }
}

Update:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "update",
        "value": [{
            "key": "foo",
            "value": "bar"
        }, {
            "key": "foo2",
            "value": "bar2"
        }]
    }
}

Patch int field

PatchField can also be used on Int fields to increment, decrement or reset their original value.

from zope.interface import Interface
from guillotina.fields import PatchField
from guillotina import schema

class IMySchema(Interface):
    counter = PatchField(schema.Int(
        title='My Counter',
        default=1,
    ))

The payload to increment counter by 3 units would look like:

{
    "counter": {
        "op": "inc",
        "value": 3
    }
}

Notice that, at this point, counter will be set to 4 because its default value is 1. If the default would not be set, the increment operation assumes a 0, and thus counter would be 3.

Likewise, to decrement the field, the following payload would work:

{
    "counter": {
        "op": "dec",
        "value": 4
    }
}

To reset counter to its default value, you can send the following payload without value:

{
    "counter": {
        "op": "reset"
    }
}

and counter will be set to its default value 1. Otherwise, you can also send the target reset value:

{
    "counter": {
        "op": "reset",
        "value": 0
    }
}

Notice that a reset operation on a integer without a default value is equivalent to sending a value of 0.

Bucket list field

from zope.interface import Interface
from guillotina.fields import BucketListField
from guillotina import schema

class IMySchema(Interface):
    values = BucketListField(
        value_type=schema.Text(),
        bucket_len=5000
    )

Then, payload for patching to append to this list would look like:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "append",
        "value": "foobar"
    }
}

Extend:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "extend",
        "value": ["foo", "bar"]
    }
}

Delete:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "del",
        "value": {
            "bucket_index": 0,
            "item_index": 0
        }
    }
}

Bucket dict field

from zope.interface import Interface
from guillotina.fields import BucketDictField
from guillotina import schema

class IMySchema(Interface):
    values = BucketDictField(
        key_type=schema.Text(),
        value_type=schema.Text(),
        bucket_len=5000
    )

Then, payload for patching would be…:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "assign",
        "value": {
            "key": "foo",
            "value": "bar"
        }
    }
}

Update:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "update",
        "value": [{
            "key": "foo",
            "value": "barupdated"
        }, {
            "key": "other",
            "value": "othervalue"
        }]
    }
}

Delete:

{
    "values": {
        "op": "del",
        "value": "foo"
    }
}