work towards editing properly

src/posts.py

@@ -15,12 +15,15 @@ class Posts:
 
         self.db = self.client["blog"]
 
-    def savepost(self, title="", content="", author=""):
+    def savepost(self, title="", content="", author="", _id=False):
         doc = {
                 "title" : title,
                 "content" : content,
                 "author" : author
                 }
+        if _id:
+            doc["_id"] = _id
+
         return jsonify(self.db.save(doc))
 
     def getposts(self, limit, start):

src/scripts/editor.tag

@@ -7,11 +7,16 @@
             <p>
               {title} by {author}, id = {_id}
             </p>
-            <button onclick={loadPost(this._id)}>Load it</button>
+            <button
+              class="btn btn-primary"
+              onclick={loadPost(this._id)}>
+                Load it
+            </button>
           </li>
         </ul>
         <span>title</span><input ref="title">
         <span>author</span><input ref="author"></input>
+        <span>Editing post {_id}</span>
         <textarea onfocus={clearplaceholder}
                   onblur={checkplaceholder}
                   oninput={echo}
@@ -46,6 +51,8 @@ this.querystring = querystring;
 this.converter = new showdown.Converter();
 this.converted = "<h3>Nothing here yet</h3>";
 
+this._id = false;
+
 this.placeholderText = "Write a post!"
 this.placeholder = this.placeholderText;
 this.focused = false;
@@ -87,6 +94,10 @@ submit() {
       "csrf_token" : this.opts.csrf_token
   });
 
+  if (this._id) {
+    post["_id"] = this._id;
+  }
+
   var headers = {
     "headers" : {
       "Content-Type" : "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
@@ -111,6 +122,9 @@ loadPost(_id) {
     axios.get(`/blog/getpost/${_id}`)
     .then(function(resp) {
       self.refs.textarea.value = resp.data.content;
+      self.refs.title.value = resp.data.title;
+      self.refs.author.value = resp.data.author;
+      self._id = _id;
       self.focused = true;
       self.update();
       self.echo();

src/website.py

@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ def NeverWhere(configfile=None):
         author = request.form.get("author", "no author")
         title = request.form.get("title", "no title")
         content = request.form.get("content", "no content")
-        postid = request.form.get("postid", False)
+        postid = request.form.get("_id", False)
 
-        post = {"author" : author, "title" : title, "content" : content }
+        post = {"author" : author, "title" : title, "content" : content, "_id" : postid }
 
         return posts.savepost(**post)