lino.core¶

Contains Lino’s core functionalities.

For some modules the documentation has already been migrated to prosa:

plugin is documented in The Plugin class
site is documented in The Site class

`actions`	This defines the `Action` class and the `action()` decorator, and some of the standard actions.
`actors`	This defines `Actor` and related classes.
`boundaction`
`callbacks`	Callback handling
`choicelists`	Defines the classes `Choice` and `ChoiceList`.
`constants`	Defines explicit code names for URL parameters
`dashboard`	Defines the `DashboardItem` class.
`dbtables`	This defines the `Table` class.
`dbutils`	Deprecated module for backwards compatibility.
`ddh`	Defines the `DisableDeleteHandler` class.
`diff`
`elems`	Defines "layout elements" (widgets).
`exceptions`	Defines Lino specific exceptions
`fields`	Defines extended database field classes and utility functions related to fields.
`frames`	Defines classes `Frame` and `FrameHandle`
`help`
`inject`
`kernel`	This defines the `Kernel` class.
`keyboard`	This defines the `Hotkey` class and some keystrokes.
`layouts`	See Introduction to layouts.
`menus`	Defines the classes `MenuItem` and `Menu`
`merge`	This defines the `MergeAction` class.
`model`	Defines the `Model` class.
`permissions`	Core tools of Lino's permission system.
`renderer`	Defines `HtmlRenderer` and `TextRenderer`.
`requests`	See introduction in Using action requests and API reference in `lino.api.core.Request`.
`roles`	Defines built-in user roles.
`signals`	This defines Lino's standard system signals.
`store`	Defines the "store" and its "fields" .
`tables`	Defines the classes `AbstractTable` and `VirtualTable`.
`urls`	The default URLconf module for Lino applications.
`userprefs`	The user preferences registry.
`user_types`	Defines a set of user types "Anonymous", "User" and "Administrator".
`utils`	A collection of utilities which require Django settings to be importable.
`views`	Utility functions used by `lino.modlib.extjs.views`.
`workflows`	Defines the classes used for defining workflows.
`auth`	This package contains code from django.contrib.auth which needed a little adaptation for Lino.