Plone: custom edit form for dexterity content type with custom behavior on save - plone

Question

I have:
a dexterity content type defined by schema (interface)
its default edit form
I'm trying to customize the edit form:
keeping current fields and validation as they are
adding new fields
The problem:
my values for the new fields I want not to be saved in my content type, but in other place.
So, how can I add new fields in an edit form of a dexterity content type without changing its schema and with custom behavior on save?
Simple example: Having a content type Car with fields name and year... I want on edit to edit not only the name and year, but also the Phone number of its producer (to be saved on save as value of Producer content type).
My WIP (solved to override the edit form, but no idea how to continue):
<browser:page
for=".IMyContentType"
name="edit"
class=".views.EditForm"
permission="cmf.ModifyPortalContent"
/>
from plone.dexterity.browser import edit
class EditForm(edit.DefaultEditForm):
pass

Answer 1

Here you can find the base DefaultEditForm code:
https://github.com/plone/plone.dexterity/blob/master/plone/dexterity/browser/edit.py#L20
To do additional actions you need to override the handleApply method (preserving the default action if you want to save field values in the actual content-type) and there provide your additional code.
If you want to add additional fields, you can override the fields attribute providing those additional fields or use the updateWidgets and updateFields methods to add those fields. Here you have some documentation:
https://docs.plone.org/external/plone.app.dexterity/docs/advanced/custom-add-and-edit-forms.html#edit-forms

Answer 2

Better use handleApply, but this is working, too:
<browser:page
for="my.package.IMyContentType"
name="edit"
class=".EditForm"
permission="zope2.View"
/>
<adapter
provides="plone.z3cform.fieldsets.interfaces.IFormExtender"
for="my.package.IMyContentType
zope.publisher.interfaces.browser.IDefaultBrowserLayer
.EditForm"
factory=".EditFormExtender"
/>
from my.package.config import MessageFactory as _
from plone.dexterity.browser import edit
from plone.dexterity.interfaces import IDexterityEditForm
from plone.z3cform import layout
from zope.interface import classImplements
from plone.z3cform.fieldsets.extensible import FormExtender
from z3c.form.field import Fields
from z3c.form import util
from zope import schema
class EditFormExtender(FormExtender):
def update(self):
if self.request.REQUEST_METHOD == 'GET':
# add fields
new_field1 = schema.TextLine(
__name__="New field 1",
title=_(u'label_new_field1', default=u'New field 1'),
description=_(u'help_new_field1',
default=u'Enter new field 1 value.'),
required=False,
)
new_field2 = schema.TextLine(
__name__="New field 2",
title=_(u'label_new_field2', default=u'New field 2'),
description=_(u'help_new_field2',
default=u'Enter new field 2 value.'),
required=False,
)
self.form.fields += Fields(new_field1, new_field2)
if self.request.REQUEST_METHOD == 'POST':
# save values
if 'form.buttons.save' in self.request.form:
# do your custom save here
prefix = 'form.widgets.'
field_names = ['new_field1', 'new_field2']
print "UPDATED:"
for field_name in field_names:
print self.request.form.get(prefix + field_name)
class EditForm(edit.DefaultEditForm):
""" Override MyContentType edit form
"""
EditView = layout.wrap_form(EditForm)
classImplements(EditView, IDexterityEditForm)