Keg 0.5.1

A web framework built on Flask & SQLAlchemy. Somewhere North of Flask but South of Django.

Keg is an opinionated but flexible web framework built on Flask and SQLAlchemy.

Keg’s Goal

The goal for this project is to encapsulate Flask best practices and libraries so devs can avoid boilerplate and work on the important stuff.

We will lean towards being opinionated on the big things (like SQLAlchemy as our ORM) while supporting hooks and customizations as much as possible.

Think North of Flask but South of Django.

Features

Default Logging Configuration

We highly recommend good logging practices and, as such, a Keg application does basic setup of the Python logging system:

• Sets the log level on the root logger to INFO

• Creates two handlers and assigns them to the root logger:

  • outputs to stderr

  • outputs to syslog

• Provides an optional json formatter

The thinking behind that is:

• In development, a developer will see log messages on stdout and doesn’t have to monitor a file.

• Log messages will be in syslog by default and available for review there if no other action is taken by the developer or sysadmin. This avoids the need to manage log placement, permissions, rotation, etc.

• It’s easy to configure syslog daemons to forward log messages to different files or remote log servers and it’s better to handle that type of need at the syslog level than in the app.

• Structured log files (json) provide metadata details in a easy-to-parse format and should be easy to generate.

• The options and output should be easily configurable from the app to account for different needs in development and deployed scenarios.

• Keg’s logging setup should be easy to turn off and/or completely override for situations where it hurts more than it helps.

Installation

• pip install keg

App Configuration

CLI Command

The command <myapp> develop config will give detailed information about the files and objects being used to configure an application.

Profile Prority

All configuration classes with the name DefaultProfile will be applied to the app’s config first.

Then, the configuration classes that match the “selected” profile will be applied on top of the app’s existing configuration. This makes the settings from the “selected” profile override any settings from the DefaultProfile.

Practically speaking, any configuration that applies to the entire app regardless of what context it is being used in will generally go in myapp.config in the DefaultProfile class.

Selecting a Configuration Profile

The “selected” profile is the name of the objects that the Keg configuration handling code will look for. It should be a string.

A Keg app considers the “selected” profile as follows:

• If config_profile was passed into myapp.init() as an argument, use it as the selected profile. The --profile cli option uses this method to set the selected profile and therefore has the highest priority.

• Look in the app’s environment namespace for “CONFIG_PROFILE”. If found, use it.

• If running tests, use “TestProfile”. Whether or not the app is operating in this mode is controlled by the use of:

  • myapp.init(use_test_profile=True) which is used by MyApp.testing_prep()

  • looking in the app’s environment namespace for “USE_TEST_PROFILE” which is used by keg.testing.invoke_command()

• Look in the app’s main config file (app.config) and all it’s other config files for the variable DEFAULT_PROFILE. If found, use the value from the file with highest priority.

Keg Development

To develop on keg, begin by running our tests:

git clone https://github.com/level12/keg keg-src
cd keg-src
cp keg_apps/db/user-config-tpl.py ~/.config/keg_apps.db/keg_apps.db-config.py
# edit the DB connection info in this file (you don't have to use vim):
vim ~/.config/keg_apps.db/keg_apps.db-config.py
tox

You can then examine tox.ini for insights into our development process. In particular, we:

• use py.test for testing (and coverage analysis)

• use flake8 for linting

• store pip requirements files in requirements/

• cache wheels in requirements/wheelhouse for faster & more reliable CI builds

Dependency Management

Adding a dependency involves:

1. Adding the dependency to one of the requirements files in requirements/.

2. Running wheelhouse build

Preview Readme

When updating the readme, use restview --long-description to preview changes.

Issues & Discussion

Please direct questions, comments, bugs, feature requests, etc. to: https://github.com/level12/keg/issues

Current Status

Very Alpha, expect changes.

Changelog

0.5.1 released 2017-08-15

• ADD: mitigate CSRF bug in Flask-WTF (42a2e70)

• ADD: config, init, and routing enhancements (cdfa901)

• MAINT: upgrade to CircleCI 2.0 (60e3bfa)

0.5.0 released 2017-06-27

• prep for pyp usage (23424b9)

• Merge branch ‘logging-improvements’ (PR66)

0.4.1 - 2017-02-09

• BUG: Properly quote pgsql identifiers during create (86852ad)

0.4.0 - 2016-12-19

• BUG: Properly Update Keyring Config Data (7f1908f)

• MSSQL dialect support (df7e89d)

• MAINT: Refactor keyring to accept bytes (15bc04b)

• MAINT: Remove deprecated flask hooks (4f7e2bf)

• Remove unicode_literal futures (dc2fa85)

• MAINT: Create windows build environment (983e040)

• MAINT: Run CI with Docker (bc7a877)

• Remove extra cp in readme (7e94815)