Create content structures from JSON files or Python dictionaries.

This package is meant as a helper to quickly create content structures from JSON files or Python structures for the purpose of pre-filling a site in development. It's the successor of the package collective.setuphandlertools.

Register a post_handler in a GenericSetup profile:

<genericsetup:registerProfile
    name="basic_content"
    title="create basic content structure"
    directory="profiles/basic_content"
    description="Creates the basic content structure"
    provides="Products.GenericSetup.interfaces.EXTENSION"
    post_handler=".setuphandlers.basic_content"
    />

In your setuphandler.py:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from collective.contentcreator import create_item_runner
from collective.contentcreator import load_json
from zope.component.hooks import getSite


def basic_content(context):
    content_structure = load_json('data/basic_content.json', __file__)
    create_item_runner(
        getSite(),
        content_structure,
        default_lang='en',
        default_wf_action='publish'
    )

And in your data/basic_content.json:

[
    {
        "@type": "Folder",
        "id": "main",
        "title": "Main Folder",
        "items": [
            {"@type": "Page",   "title": "Page within Folder"},
            {"@type": "Folder", "title": "Folder within Folder", "description": "Not much more in here."}
        ]
    }
]

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.