splent_feature_team

The team feature of a SPLENT product line.

A SPLENT feature is a Python package that a product composes with others: its models, routes, services, templates and hooks are registered when the product starts. What this feature provides and requires is listed in the [tool.splent.contract] section of pyproject.toml, which splent feature:contract --write keeps in sync with the source.

What it does

A directory of people. /team lists the published members grouped by role, in the order of Role.order, and /team/<slug> shows one profile. A member can hold several roles and then appears under each of them. A member's bio is stored HTML, and the profile draws it through the framework's rich_text filter, which keeps the formatting and drops scripts, event handlers and javascript: links.

A member who is not published stays off both pages, and /team/<slug> answers 404 for them. The panel's accounts still open the profile to check it, with a notice that the public does not see it.

The panel manages it at /admin/team (members) and /admin/team/roles (roles). Only the panel's accounts reach those screens.

Addresses

The member's photo, website and profile links and the role's logo and website end up in a src or an href of the public pages, so the forms check them before they store them.

A value that breaks a rule is refused with a message, nothing is saved, and the form comes back with what was typed. A photo, a logo or a website longer than its 512 character column is refused rather than cut, since a cut address points somewhere else. The member form has no website field, so saving it keeps the website a seeder set.

A seeder writes the columns directly and is not checked. Every template draws a stored address through the framework's safe_url filter, so one that is not http, https, mailto or a path on the site renders as an empty href or src instead of running.

Roles that stand for an organisation

A role is a section of the page. When a product groups its people by organisation (a university, a company, a partner lab), each organisation is a role, and the role can carry three optional details.

A role without any of them renders as the bare heading it always was, so products that group by job (Faculty, Students, Staff) see no difference.

In the panel, the Details button of each role on /admin/team/roles opens the full form, where the logo is picked from the media library.

The form checks the logo and the website as described in Addresses, and a role whose details are refused keeps what it had.

A product seeds its organisations with its own seeder, replacing this feature's sample data.

import os

from splent_framework.seeders.BaseSeeder import BaseSeeder
from splent_io.splent_feature_media.services import MediaService
from splent_io.splent_feature_team.models import Role, TeamMember

LOGOS = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "static", "logos")


class MyTeamSeeder(BaseSeeder):
    replaces = ("splent_io.splent_feature_team.seeders",)

    def run(self):
        logo = MediaService().import_from_file(
            os.path.join(LOGOS, "somewhere.svg"), source_key="seed://my/somewhere"
        )
        [university] = self.seed(
            [
                Role(
                    name="University of Somewhere",
                    slug="university-of-somewhere",
                    order=1,
                    description="Develops and runs the platform.",
                    logo=logo.url,
                    link="https://www.somewhere.example",
                )
            ]
        )
        person = TeamMember(name="Ada Lovelace", slug="ada-lovelace")
        person.roles = [university]
        self.seed([person])

A product that wants other markup for the page overrides team/list.html in its own templates. Each group is a Role with description, logo and link next to its name.

Use it in a product

splent feature:add splent_feature_team

Develop

splent feature:test splent_feature_team
splent feature:contract splent_feature_team

Release

splent feature:release splent_feature_team --dry-run --bump patch
splent feature:release splent_feature_team

The first command rehearses the release and changes nothing. The second publishes it to the git forge and to PyPI, and a PyPI version is permanent.