When the server refused a VM create submission (a field error, a busy
resource, a reused submission key, an existing VM name, a missing MAC
for a new disk), the page came back on its first tab with the flavor
dialog closed and every entered value gone: the hand-written fields
showed fixed defaults, and the errors sat in a block at the top of the
page, outside #messages and tied to no field.
The view builds one NewVMForm per create form on the page (custom,
template, one per flavor; create_forms), each with its own defaults; a
hidden form_id, which is also the prefix of the form's field ids, names
the submitted one, and it comes back bound. Every field renders from its
own form and is marked by two small template tags (form_fields:
error_attrs, field_error) when refused; a summary at the top of the
form lists all of its errors, also those of fields it keeps hidden. The
submitted tab or flavor dialog, marked data-form-id, reopens with any
"Advanced" section that holds an error; a reopened dialog shows the
messages too; the template form gets its pool, template and storage
back. base.html's error focus is a function that walks the places an
error can be, and a page can call it once it is set up, as the create
page does. form_id changes nothing in how a POST is processed; one of
an unknown form (a flavor deleted since) has its errors in the
messages. The default video now applies to every create form.
The custom form's disks and networks are not restored yet.
After a refused submission the focus stayed on the page body: a keyboard
or screen reader user had to find the error. base.html now focuses the
first visible invalid field (the inline errors of the page forms), else
the first error message at the top of the page (the modal forms, and
pages whose host does not answer). The messages sit in a #messages
container so the script finds only them.
Rendered through every URL on libvirt's test driver, the pages had
duplicate IDs and markup browsers repaired silently:
- Each flavor modal's "Advanced" button toggled #flav-add-collapse, the
first modal's section; every modal now has its own. The flavor and
template copies of the custom tab's control IDs, and the template
tab's unused images input, are gone.
- The VM page's action icons and the XML editors were styled by
repeated IDs; they use classes.
- Modal forms opened inside modal-body and closed after modal-footer;
they wrap both. Stray end tags and duplicate attributes are removed,
paragraphs no longer hold modals or rows, table heads have a row, and
the create page closes its row and column.
- html lang is the active language instead of "en".
A test walks every URL as a superuser and fails on a repeated ID. The
console page still has no doctype: its full-height layout relies on
quirks mode and needs its own check.
A theme change compiled Bootswatch with libsass (34 MB, upstream
deprecated) into two tracked files, which updates, rollbacks and new
Docker containers then reset. The 27 themes now ship as
static/css/themes/<theme>.min.css, built by "manage.py build_themes";
the Settings page only saves the theme name and every page links that
file (zephyr when no settings are in context, as on the 500 page).
libsass moves to dev/requirements.txt; a test checks that each shipped
file is its theme compiled from dev/scss. The "Theme SASS Path" setting
is removed, and the theme default "flaty", a typo that never applied,
becomes zephyr, the theme those installs showed. The update and
rollback steps restore an older version's rewritten theme files only
where they are modified.
