Changing Portal Transforms Settings via Python

Introduction

If you have to change some portal_transforms settings you can't use a Generic Setup config file for this (as of 2010-03-25, Products.PortalTransforms 2.0b4). But you can change it with python and a Generic Setup import step. Here's how to do it.

Warning

Security: The configuration shown below allows users to use nasty HTML tags which can be a security issue if not used carefully.

Let's say we have a plone package called MY.PACKAGE.

Writing an Generic Setup Import Step Method

This setup method is definded in MY.PACKAGE/setuphandlers.py. It configures the safe_html portal_transform a bit less paranoid about nasty tags and valid_tags, so that content managers are allowed to insert iframe, object, embed, param, script, style, tags and more into the TinyMCE editor:

import logging
from Products.CMFCore.utils import getToolByName
from Products.PortalTransforms.Transform import make_config_persistent

logger = logging.getLogger('MY.PACKAGE.setuphandlers')

def isNotThisProfile(context, marker_file):
    return context.readDataFile(marker_file) is None

def setup_portal_transforms(context):
    if isNotThisProfile(context, 'MY.PACKAGE-PROFILENAME.txt'): return

    logger.info('Updating portal_transform safe_html settings')

    tid = 'safe_html'

    pt = getToolByName(context, 'portal_transforms')
    if not tid in pt.objectIds(): return

    trans = pt[tid]

    tconfig = trans._config
    tconfig['class_blacklist'] = []
    tconfig['nasty_tags'] = {'meta': '1'}
    tconfig['remove_javascript'] = 0
    tconfig['stripped_attributes'] = ['lang', 'valign', 'halign', 'border',
                                     'frame', 'rules', 'cellspacing',
                                     'cellpadding', 'bgcolor']
    tconfig['stripped_combinations'] = {}
    tconfig['style_whitelist'] = ['text-align', 'list-style-type', 'float',
                                  'width', 'height', 'padding-left',
                                  'padding-right'] # allow specific styles for
                                                   # TinyMCE editing
    tconfig['valid_tags'] = {
        'code': '1', 'meter': '1', 'tbody': '1', 'style': '1', 'img': '0',
        'title': '1', 'tt': '1', 'tr': '1', 'param': '1', 'li': '1',
        'source': '1', 'tfoot': '1', 'th': '1', 'td': '1', 'dl': '1',
        'blockquote': '1', 'big': '1', 'dd': '1', 'kbd': '1', 'dt': '1',
        'p': '1', 'small': '1', 'output': '1', 'div': '1', 'em': '1',
        'datalist': '1', 'hgroup': '1', 'video': '1', 'rt': '1', 'canvas': '1',
        'rp': '1', 'sub': '1', 'bdo': '1', 'sup': '1', 'progress': '1',
        'body': '1', 'acronym': '1', 'base': '0', 'br': '0', 'address': '1',
        'article': '1', 'strong': '1', 'ol': '1', 'script': '1', 'caption': '1',
        'dialog': '1', 'col': '1', 'h2': '1', 'h3': '1', 'h1': '1', 'h6': '1',
        'h4': '1', 'h5': '1', 'header': '1', 'table': '1', 'span': '1',
        'area': '0', 'mark': '1', 'dfn': '1', 'var': '1', 'cite': '1',
        'thead': '1', 'head': '1', 'hr': '0', 'link': '1', 'ruby': '1',
        'b': '1', 'colgroup': '1', 'keygen': '1', 'ul': '1', 'del': '1',
        'iframe': '1', 'embed': '1', 'pre': '1', 'figure': '1', 'ins': '1',
        'aside': '1', 'html': '1', 'nav': '1', 'details': '1', 'u': '1',
        'samp': '1', 'map': '1', 'object': '1', 'a': '1', 'footer': '1',
        'i': '1', 'q': '1', 'command': '1', 'time': '1', 'audio': '1',
        'section': '1', 'abbr': '1'}
    make_config_persistent(tconfig)
    trans._p_changed = True
    trans.reload()

Registering the Import Step Method with Generic Setup

Add an import step in MY.PACKAGE/MYPROFILESDIR/PROFILENAME/import_steps.xml like so::

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<import-steps>
  <import-step
    id="MY.PACKAGE-portal_transforms"
    handler="MY.PACKAGE.setuphandlers.setup_portal_transforms"
    title="MY.PACKAGE portal_transforms setup"
    version="1.0">
    <dependency step="plone-final"/>
  </import-step>
</import-steps>

And create the File MY.PACKAGE/MYPROFILESDIR/PROFILENAME/MY.PACKAGE-PROFILENAME.txt, so that this import step is not run for any profile but just for this one.

Calling the Import Step Method in ZMI, portal_setup

Goto your site's portal_setup in ZMI, select your registered profile and import the import step "MY.PACKAGE portal_transforms setup". That's it.