drink 0.0.10

High-level Web Object-managing framework on top of ZODB and Jinja2

Alpha Web framework & sample mini CMS.

Aims to be quite generic all-in-one-but-minimalistic web+database high-level framework.

Take a look at the (WIP) documentation at drink.rtfd.org.

Dependencies

Use “easy_install” or “pip” to get ‘jinja2’, ‘markdown’, ‘ZODB3’ and ‘whoosh’ installed on your system. Additionally you can install paste or gevent for better performances.

Example (at the DOS/Console/Shell prompt):

easy_install -U markdown

or, alternatively:

pip install -U markdown

Dependencies list:

• markdown

• jinja2

• ZODB3

• whoosh

• fs

Install

Just fetch the source archive and unpack it:

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/drink/drink-0.0.10.tar.bz2
tar jxvf drink-0.0.10.tar.bz2

Running

Just go into the unpacked drink directory and execute the “manage” script:

cd drink-0.0.10
./manage

If you run into troubles, try:

DEBUG=1 ./manage

Getting sources/Contributing

See GitHub page.

The main ideas behind

It should handle most of javascript, html & forms creation for you, for very fast prototype implementation.

Then you’r free to put your hands into html/css/js and customize to your precise requirements.

Some debugging middleware are supported, edit drink/settings.ini for details.

Goals

• Add features at ONE place in ONE language (html/css/js may be required for some advanced/custom usages)

• Be fast, with built-in search engine

• Ajax (ajaj in fact) - with nice fallbacks for old browsers

• No SQL

• Website: as simple as a nested dict-like objects tree, endpoints (last element of URL) are object’s properties & methods

• Make it as productive as possible for most generic tasks

Out of the box, it is something between a wiki and a cms, probably a good base for a lightweight web CMS / Intranet / Forum / etc!

Main Features

• Built-in search engine

• Multi-user with access control (group based) at each level

• Automatic views and javascript-friendly requests, with regard to each object permissions

• Automatic object edition’s form generation

• Webpage edition live preview, client-side form validation

• Comes with some pre-developped objects:

  • folder index (sortable with D&D)

  • file (upload your own file, also allows D&D)

  • Web page ( markdown only )

  • Simple TODO list/TODOs (WIP)

  And of course special elements like Groups & Users !.

• Very user friendly (once doc will be there!)

Issues

• no documentation yet (default manager account, login/password: admin/admin )

• no auto tests yet

• not very powerful yet

Release changes

• Improved TODO Lists (fullcalendar included)

• Now any TextArea can submit the form with Ctrl+Enter

• Slightly better access/permissions redirects

• Filesystem mountpoint (alpha)

• Improved item addition a bit

• Markdown have an almost correctly styled preview

• Cleaner models

• Embryo of documentation

• As always: Fixes & Bugs

Roadmap

0.1 (wip)

• add more types to default form edition

• object_path => integrate it to markdown editor

• buildbot & virtualenv

• change cookie on password change

• only accept object move if it succeded on server

• allow custom extensions

• Per-user group-list, showing in permissions panels

• allow rss via http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/RSS

• HomePage object: Login-splash+UserDashboard write user homepages (with login & passwd & name & surname change) / splash-like if not logged-in

• think about comments ( as property of some Model ?) - commentlist ?

• allow objects to add custom actions in admin bar

• edit form: only send “dirty” values when possible

• add some recursive permissions setter

• “background processes” for each user / sessions

• theme support (config entry + template & static path)

• ensure proper checks are correct at server side

• Form object?

• find the cleanest way to make all incoming URLs ends with /

• pack should call http://packages.python.org/Whoosh/api/index.html?highlight=optimize#whoosh.index.Index.optimize on whoosh

• add calltips everywhere

• default content for every user

• review 401 handling, ask for login/passwd in case of new session (to be finished)

• Think about opening WebFiles in mail client as attached file…

• add markdown support to tasks comment

• improve link support (javascript popup) in markdown so it’s easy to link tasks to any object

Fixes:

• only returns requested range in TODO List

• Rename Tasks/TODO List to calendar

• remove Ctrl+Enter conflict on Markitup

• /users as user => 401 (should list instead)

• search => 401 by default (should be allowed)

• mask file upload widget if File not available here

• investigate fileupload D&D bugs

• files >4GB are making crazy js loops

• files ~>500MB may hang the request & cause timeout

0.2

• zip importer

• pdf with pypdf

• doc

• project support (using drink as a base)

• integrate imgviewer (image folder type)

0.3

• multi-object page

• spreadsheet ?

• integrate graph library (http://www.jqplot.com/)

0.4

• “real” sessions ?

• chat program (introduce webhooks ?)

0.5

• forum

• more tests

0.6

• gadgets (google search, rss reader, clock, xkcd, ?)

0.7

• permissions setting admin object

0.8

• user interface cleanup

0.9

• doc & fix but minor improvements

1.0

• stable release

1.x

• homepage /user pages focus