X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=175e65b017ae8108512a29d33685573d1f1b2480;hb=abba116c28db312ee1cb4ca6897f358168f86c7c;hp=7aa08fcd43755ee679beacbffb0b1a99168edcac;hpb=b819c832cd3efe0a37966196430bcf3ec0aaf0cb;p=myslice.git diff --git a/README b/README index 7aa08fcd..175e65b0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This file documents the contents of this module +his file documents the contents of this module See the devel/ subdir for more devel-oriented doc. @@ -13,50 +13,90 @@ See the devel/ subdir for more devel-oriented doc. * git clone ssh://yourlogin@git.onelab.eu/git/myslice-django.git * edit myslice/settings.py and -** change DEVELOPER_ROOT if you didnt clone into ~/git/myslice-django ** change the location of your backend API (not yet supported) +* edit myslice/config.py and enter the details of your manifold backend + * init django $ manage.py syncdb -[ at this point point it *might* be needed to run -$ make allst - but as far as running a local server is concerned you should be good without that - feedback on this is appreciated] +* gather static files +$ ./manage.py collectstatic (formerly, we used make static, which is deprecated) * run a local server: $ manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 +-- or -- my advice: +$ devel/server-loop.sh +when you just need to hit ^C yourself when your static files need to be refreshed - see below * use it from your browser +(See more notes on using the development server below) +* install dependencies +$ pip install -r path/to/requirements/file.txt ==================== Status -For now there's not much in here; +*** Authentication *** + +Although there still are a few hard-coded accounts in the system, you +will only be able to see some static views and won't be able to send +real queries if you use these, so you'd better use a real account (one +that your manifold backend knows about). + +For logging out: click on 'logged as *jean*', this shows a +confirmation page for logging out. this is intended to be temporary. + +*** Packaging *** + +I've done a very rough attempt at packaging for rpm. +The logic seems about right but needs more work, in particular in terms of installing myslice.conf +in the httpd conf.d directory. +It seems like our app won't work on f14 as is because Django is only 1.3.1 on f14 +Plan is to target f18 but I lack a test machine. +Also of course I'll try to tackle debian/ubunti at some point. + +*** Features *** + +We have a basic model for asynchroneous queries (referring to manifold +queries) and for plugins (in the most general sense a plugin is just a +piece of the output that may be connected to a query) -* Logging in should be easy using one of the few hard coded accounts - this was the simplest possible way to demonstrate deferring authorization elsewhere -* To logout, click on 'logged as *jean*', this shows a confirmation page.. +Right now the UI has a handful of demo views only; as of this writing +only the list of slices actually comes from the manifold backend in an +asynchroneous way. +Also all the views are gathered in the trash/ locations for now, being +that they're only for assessment purposes. -Right now the UI has 4 views: +* dahsboard : has one async. query and 2 plugins that share that + query; the intent was to demo a different layout in both cases, + although the datatables one won't work yet at this point. -* the most useful one being the 'Plugin' view which demonstrates all the available plugins - see test_plugin_view in engine/views.py +* the 'Plugin' view demonstrates most of the available plugins. * slice view : only demonstrates how to use URLs to pass arguments along -* scroll view : forget about that one, but it does illustrate that some pages can be made public (no need to login) + +* scroll view : mostly it only illustrates that some pages can be made + public (no need to login) + * tab view : a hand-made tab widget -(last three from slice/views.py) +Not much effort has yet been put into coming up with a nice layout, +feel free to tweak that but it's probably still way too early for +this. + +==================== Third party tools shipped: * jquery * datatables +* spin * bootstrap +* and others are added as we build the system when they become needed -not much effort has been put into coming up with a nice layout and all, feel free to tweak that but it's probably way too early for that +I've tried to keep track of the version I picked and to have an easy upgrade path. ==================== Contents: 1st level subdirs @@ -66,8 +106,11 @@ not much effort has been put into coming up with a nice layout and all, feel fre . settings.py . urls.py -* engine: - the code for building / rendering plugins +* manifold: + the code for dealing with queries, sending them to the backend, and offering the /manifold/proxy/ URL + +* unfold: + the code for building / rendering plugins * plugins: the actual code for plugins @@ -78,18 +121,20 @@ not much effort has been put into coming up with a nice layout and all, feel fre for how to use a separate authentication system, as well as settings.py for how to enable it -* slice: - a django app for dealing with slice views +* trash/ + rough/preliminary views in here - as the name suggests this is temporary + +* views/ + will receive actual views over time + currently has some global html templates as well + + some global static files (css, js, images..) * insert_above: a third-party django app for adding on-the-fly mentions to css or js files that need to go in the header -* templates/ -* static/ - some global stuff: - * templates (django templates, i.e. (essentially html) fragments that can be specializied) - * static files (css, js, images..) - see more about that below +* third-party/ + * third party javascript and css stuff (bootstrapfs, jquery, this kind of things) + see more about that below too * devel: no code in there, only various notes and other scripts useful for developers @@ -97,32 +142,80 @@ not much effort has been put into coming up with a nice layout and all, feel fre ========== automatically generated * all-static: (generated, no need to source-control) - this is where 'manage.py collectstatic' will gather all your static contents if you run a local server + this is where 'make static' will gather all your static contents if you run a local server make has convenience targets to refresh this area - $ make clean-static $ make static + $ make clean-static * myslice.sqlite3 this is where django stores its own stuff, as per settings.py +==================== conventions for templates & static files +==================== and NOTES on using the development server + +. first off, running manage.py runserver is provided by django as a development convenience but + SHOULD NOT be used in production + +. second, when you do use it for developement purposes, please be aware that: + +.. the recommended layout for the various files and pieces (py, html, js and css) with django is + IMHO really painful; we *SHOULD* use e.g. + plugins/simplelist.py, + plugins/templates/plugins.html, + plugins/static/js/simplelist.js + plugins/static/css/simplelist.css + which I have tried doing for a while but I found mmyself just hopping around in the file tree all + day long, wasting cycles all along + +.. as that does not make sense IMHO, I've rewritten the tool for gathering these pieces (this is in + the Makefile). Bottom line is we can essentially store this wherever we want. + The only restriction being that if you have a template that is *not* html, then it *has to* sit + in a templates/ directory, otherwise it gets shipped as a static file. + +.. as a result, we can now store all the files building a plugin in a single (git) directory; like e.g. + plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.py + plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.html + plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.js + plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.css + + Of course it's a completely different matter once the service is packaged and installed, these + files of course get properly separated. -==================== conventions for templates and static +.. as a result it is a little bit less convenient to use the development server when you change the + layout of your static and template files, you might need to re-run 'make static', so it is + recommended to use devel/server-loop.sh instead + + +All this being said, here are our current conventions for storing templates and static files * templates: we store this under templates/ within the corresponding app, e.g. - auth/templates/login.html - for now this is mostly about html, but the engine can be used for rendering anything including js(on) or whatever.. + auth/templates/login.html + for now this is mostly about html, but the engine can be used for rendering anything + including js(on) or whatever (in which case, as stated above, this *must* have /templates/ in its path. * static files: we chose to have all static files (images, but also javascript and stylesheets) in the various - proj or app where they belong, under a static/ subdir that has this structure: + proj or app where they belong, with a layout like: where-it-belongs/ - static/ img/ css/ js/ + Honestly it's not yet very clear sometimes what 'where-it-belongs' should be sometimes, and it + does not matter too much anyway, given that the code doesn't need to change when we move things + around. So in particular it's fuzzy between myslice/ (where the logo could fit e.g.) views/ and + even trash/ + +Makefile has a few convenience targets to list all kinds of stuff; the 2 major targets are + +$ make static templates + +that would reset all-static/ and all-templates/ for you from the other contents + +* third-party + please note that the set of files that actually get exposed in all-static from third-party is + hand-coded in Makefile because we tried to preserve the original codebase layout from mainstream, + and there's only so much in common between 2 differents js libraries at this point. -NOTE. in essence any of these files can be moved around (from e.g. one templates/ dir to another) -at any time without any change needed in the code