drink 0.0.9

High-level micro CMS inspired by BlueBream (Zope) and Django, with simplicity of use & extend in mind. Based on ZODB & bottle.

Alpha Web framework & sample mini CMS application with little dependencies: ZODB , bottle & markdown.

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

Getting started

Install

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
easy_install -U jinja2
easy_install -U ZODB3
easy_install -U whoosh

or, alternatively:

pip install -U markdown
pip install -U jinja2
pip install -U ZODB3
pip install -U whoosh

Then, fetch the source archive and unpack it:

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/drink/drink-0.0.9.tar.bz2
tar jxvf drink-0.0.9.tar.bz2

Running

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

cd drink-0.0.9
./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

• Add a nice Help by default

• Basic date type (used in TODO example object), will pop a calendar up in edit form

• Renamed File to “WebFile”

• Better web 2.0 experience

• Support for web-editable default actions on objects (avoids redirects)

• Add a custom wsgi loader that gracefully loads the fastest compatible wsgi backend available

• Finder now also deletes traces of old objects

• Add support for “full” search in finder

• Add Indent/Deindent support to Markdown editor

• As always: Fixes & Bugs

Roadmap

0.1 (wip)

• abstract all low-level models (blobs…)

• review 401 handling, ask for login/passwd in case of new session

• fix markdown preview css (make it seamless)

• add calltips everywhere

• change cookie on password change

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

• only accept object move if it succeded on server

• allow custom extensions

• default content for every user

• 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

• allow objects to add custom actions in admin bar

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

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

• add some recursive permissions setter

• improve task list

• “background processes” for each user / sessions

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

• add more types to default form edition

  • object_path

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

• add proper checks at server side too (in add & edit methods mostly)

• Form object?

Fixes:

• /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

0.4

• chat program

0.5

• forum

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