A plugin-based microframework for highly reusable applications and their components
Project description
groundwork is a python based microframework for highly reusable applications and their components.
It’s functionality is based on exchangeable, documented and tested plugins and patterns.
It is designed to support any kind of application: command line scripts, desktop programs or web applications.
groundwork enables applications to activate and deactivate plugins during runtime and to control dynamic plugin behaviors like plugin status, used signals, registered commands and much more.
The functionality of plugins can be easily extended by the usage of inheritable patterns. Based on this, groundwork supports developers with time-saving solutions for:
Command line interfaces
Loose inter-plugin communication via signals and receivers
Shared objects to provide and request content to and from other plugins
Static and dynamic documents for an overall documentation
Example
The following code defines a plugin with command line support and creates a groundwork application, which activates this plugin:
from groundwork import App
from groundwork.patterns import GwCommandsPattern
class MyPlugin(GwCommandsPattern):
def _init_(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.name = "My Plugin"
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
def activate(self):
self.commands.register(command='hello',
description='prints "hello world"',
function=self.greetings)
def greetings(self):
print("Hello world")
if __name__ == "__main__":
my_app = App(plugins=[MyPlugin]) # Creates app and registers MyPlugin
my_app.plugins.activate(["My Plugin"]) # Initialise and activates 'My Plugin'
my_app.commands.start_cli() # Starts the command line interface
On a command line the following commands can be used now:
python my_app.py hello # Prints 'Hello world' python my_app.py # Prints a list of available commands python my_app.yp hello -h # Prints some help text for the command hello
