eye 1.0b1

A generic web-based browser of ZODB databases.

Overview

Eye provides a browser-based UI to browse the contents of a ZODB database.

It can also be used as a generic Python object browser.

Installation

At this point Eye has been tested on Python 2.6.

Eye has a few dependencies including the Pyramid web framework. Therefore it’s recommended to install it in a virtualenv or buildout to keep it isolated from other software on your system.

Assuming you have virtualenv installed, the following commands will install Eye:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages eye
$ cd eye
$ bin/pip install eye

This creates a new virtualenv in the eye directory, and installs the eye console script into the bin subdirectory.

Basic usage

Inspect a ZODB filestorage

$ bin/eye [path to Data.fs]

Then open your browser to http://localhost:8080/

Inspect an arbitrary object

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> foo = datetime.now()
>>> import eye; eye.eye(foo)

Similar tools

• zope2.zodbbrowser: Runs in Zope 2; provides a bit more app-specific info.

• zodbbrowser: Based on the Zope 3.4.0 KGS; displays historical object revisions.

• z3c.zodbbrowser: An apparently unfinished GSOC project; based on wxPython.

Credits

Thanks to:

• Roberto Allende and menttes. The initial inspiration and code is from their zope2.zodbbrowser.

• Elizabeth Leddy

• Jim Fulton for creating the ZODB.

• The creators of the Pyramid web framework.

• The creators of the JQuery, JQuery UI, and Dynatree libraries.

Changelog

1.0b1 - 2011-03-19

• Initial release. [davisagli]