This rev. introduces a new test suite meant to test the webclient
components on mobile devices. The key 'config.device.isMobile' is
forced to true in this test suite, so that mobile specific JS files
are properly executed, which isn't the case in the classic JS test
suite (setting isMobile to true in the test definition is too late,
as the JS files are already processed).
For now, this new test suite contains a single test, which was
skipped until this rev. as it couldn't be executed in the classical
JS test suite.
Both suites are executed at each build of the runbot, and they
can be manually executed from the webclient as well (via the debug
manager).
* mass_mailing, payment, point_of_sale, portal, survey, web, web_tour,
website_blog, website_crm_partner_assign, website_event,
website_event_questions, website_form, website_forum, website_gengo,
website_hr_recruitment, website_links, website_mail,
website_mail_channel, website_mass_mailing, website_quote,
website_sale, website_sale_options, website_slides, website_twitter
This commit reviews the whole "JS side" of the web_editor and website
apps. This is a first step to be able to improve them with new and
better functionnalities; this commit is not supposed to change any
visual behavior.
The main goal was to achieve a structure similar to the backend one.
Now, the frontend side also has a root widget (like the WebClient)
and all other widgets are attached to it one way or another. This allows
the benefits of using the 'trigger_up' functionnality for example.
As RPC are now mainly done with the `this._rpc` functionnality (being
possible thanks to the parent hierarchy), the frontend will also be
possible to test thanks to QUnit in a future update (besides the "text"
editor side which still requires a refactoring to be able to do that).
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Here are some of the changes:
(-) conventions and documentation
The code has been updated to follow JS conventions and a lot of code has
been commented (around +2000 lines of comment). This also means that
lots of functions have been renamed to use camelCase or simply to make
their name understandable.
See https://github.com/odoo/odoo/wiki/Javascript-coding-guidelines.
(-) deprecated: web_editor.base
The "web_editor.base" module has been split and does not force the
modules which require it to wait for DOM ready anymore. This was indeed
slowing loading times, but also prevented to use some modules in some
contexts (see the LESS editor use in web_studio which is the subject of
another task).
Now the "editor context" can be got thanks to the "web_editor.context"
JS module with its "get" function.
The "web_editor.base" module should probably not be used anymore (see
its code and recent updates).
(-) new: web.dom_ready
If a JS module should wait for the DOM to be ready to be executed, a
new JS module has been created: "web.dom_ready". This should always
be used in a module which only want to instantiate stuff. Do not
extend (or worst, include) classes after DOM ready.
(-) website.website
The "website.website" module has been split. "website.website" does not
return anything useful anymore, it just initialize some miscellaneous
stuff, without waiting for the DOM to be ready. You might want to check
"website.utils", "website.content.compatibility" or `WebsiteRoot`. Also
`website.form` has been deleted (use `this._rpc`), so has been
`website.error`. `website.prompt` will be removed in a future update to
be replaced by `Dialog.prompt`.
(-) widgets are great
Many classes which were not widgets are now widgets. This allows them to
use the 'events', the 'xmlDependencies' and the 'this._rpc' features for
example. Here are some of the main ones:
- Snippet options: these were classes with a `$el` for the menu element
and `$target` for the customized element. This is still the case
but following standard `Widget` structure (one exception: using
`this.$(...)` searches in the `$target` as before this update).
- Snippet animations: instead of class instances with a `$target`
element which can be `start` and `stop`, these are now standard
widgets which can be `start` and `destroy`. `this.$target` is
an alias to `this.$el` for ease of compatibility.
- Snippet editors: instead of class instances in charge of an editor
overlay, these are now widgets. Each "child" snippet editor is
properly attached as a "child", which allows editors to communicate
and to be properly destroyed.
(-) root widgets and website navbar
The frontend is different of the backend. In the backend, the page has
an empty <body/> element and all the components are instantiated from
parent to children (i.e. the `WebClient` is instantiated and is in
charge of instantiating the `ControlPanel`, etc). The frontend cannot
work like that on page loadings as they are way more frequent than in
the backend and we do not want them to flicker. A frontend page is
loaded as a <body/> element which already contains the website navbar
and its menus and the whole content page. JS code has to be "attached"
to these existing elements. This is possible thanks to the `RootWidget`
instances and the specialized `WebsiteRoot`, `IframeRoot` and
`WebsiteNavbar` (see code for details).
(-) lazy loading
No more (or at least a lot less) XML/JS has to be loaded on page
loading, thanks to the use of the `Widget.xmlDependencies` feature.
XML which have to be lazy loaded is loaded only on related Widget
instantiation if necessary, which allows to execute a lot of JS code
before the DOM is ready and to start many widgets on DOM ready (not
later). A visual benefit of this is clicking on the 'edit' button as
soon as it is possible: before this commit, this was sometimes not
doing anything as event handlers were not binded yet.
Still a possible exception: loading the session and locales. This may
be asynchronous stuff which is still required before widget
instantiations but this will be the subject of another task.
(-) deprecated code and code location
More than reviewing code and organizing it, many apparent dead code was
removed. More importantly, mislocated code was put in the right app.
This is the case for snippet animations which is a concept for website
apps but was defined in the web_editor app, or some translation concepts
which were part of website but should have been part of web_editor.
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There are probably more things to say about this commit but I will let
the comments speak for those.
This commit introduce a full redesign of all JS views. We started
basically from scratch. The goal was to unify all the various views
under a common framework, to make them testable, to make then usable in
different conditions (in studio, or in the frontend), and to make our
lives easier.
Some important points are:
- we introduced new coding guidelines (camelCase, 80 chars width, ...)
- we have a brand new testing framework (still QUnit based)
- kanban view moved to the web addon
- calendar view (formerly web_calender) moved to web as well
- the tree view was removed
- all new code should be documented
We hope that this code is the start of a new era for the Odoo web
client, we want to have a high quality codebase, well documented, well
tested, well designed.
Work done by the framework team: mostly aab, ged, chm, dmo, qsm
These colors were usually hardcoded in some snippets (.s_banner for
example) to increase text legibility over background images.
This commit will let the user personalize them.
The assets_frontend inheritance made by the web_editor module should be
the first to be done as the website.assets_frontend rules have to come
after (LESS variables overridden).
Since the website/web_editor split, the mt/mb definitions were not
included in reports anymore. Those were not the only rules that
were forgotten. In 9.0, as a fix, those rules were added back in the
report.css file.
As the assets have been refactored in saas-10, the fix here is to
link the missing file (unique in saas-10) in the report assets.
* Remove recursive assets inclusions (i.e. assets_editor was including
assets_common, summernote, ...)
* Better construct the assets (link, then script + type attribute)
* Better include the assets (split js / css, always use t-call-assets)
* Simplifies the number of assets
* Move bootstrap js to assets common
* assets_frontend is now created by web module to allow using it on the
connexion page but also in the web_editor, where colors have to be
bootstrap/theme ones. Note: if a module depends on website, then keep
using the inherit_id="WEBSITE.assets_frontend"
The original commit by fka used to define less variables like this:
@px-4: 4px
@px-8: 8px
The goal was to be able to change the margin values in
media queries for smaller screens.
However, as the less is only compiled once in css, those
variables didn't really help as you couldn't redefine them
from inside a media query and have the less magically
reassign the margins on the fly.
I created less helper functions to be able to easily redefine
the margins for smaller screens from inside media queries.
The task also required to replace the nbsp in the html by the
newly created mr and ml classes.
This is also the first phase of the sass -> less transition.
qsm-odoo