utah-project 1.4.0

Utah Project

Utah Project is designed to help developers build full stack web app solutions in python. It does this by integrating many of the components in the python ecosystem into one software stack realized in a preconfigured reference application. It begins with a set of base libraries to handle common needs when building web applications and fronts them with flask. It takes into consideration the following problems:

1. Externalized Content Management and Delivery

2. Authentication

3. Authorization

4. Profile Management

5. Configuration Bootstrapping

6. Site Navigation

7. Command processing

8. Robust and Dynamic Page Templating

9. Internationalization

10. Server Configuration (For CentOS and Redhat)

11. APIs

For more detail go to our home page.

Consumption Models

Utah can be consumed in two modes.

1. Canned installable RPM for Linux Systems

2. Workspace for building your own applications

Installing our canned application on a server is pretty straight forward and out of the box will provide a nice content management and delivery solution. To get started follow our Quick Start guide

The workspace gives you the ability to mix your functionality with our out of the box services. Our command processing is all based on flask. Your first question might be why flask? Simple enough; flask is awesome and the most straight forward way to implement web functionality in python. If you know flask, adding functionality will be a simple proposition. The workspace comes with all of the component dependancies preconfgiured in a working application ready to have your functionality added to it. In addtion the workspace comes with an RPM spec which is needed to build your application into your own RPM so your application is server deployable.

Setting up a workspace is also straightforward. To do so follow our workspace setup guide.

Release Notes

Version 1.4.0

Features:

• Added drag and drop content to text snippets in addition to full pages

• Changed coloring on text editor. Dark background and blue text.

• Content editor now prompts before abandoning changes when another file or a folder is selected

Bug Fixes:

• Corrected issue with workspace setup. Should only need utah_project which references all other dependancies but was referencing flask. This caused a version conflict during workspace setup.

• Corrected coloring on dialog boxes

Version 1.3.2

Features:

• Broke content management app into more manageable includes

• Added the ability to drag content items into a .html document. Drop functionality is context sensitive based on the item being dragged.

• Added feature flags for flask modules and utah services so the load can be skipped using environment variables

Bug Fixes:

Corrected issue in bootstrap pathing

Version 1.2.0

Features:

No features were added in this release

Bug Fixes:

• When a new group was created missing a description. The system displayed an error but did not reload the available rights and selected rights.

• Bryce setup did verify the correct configuration was in place. When the setup was run like this the system would create the databases but fail leaving the install in an un recoverable state as the databases and service accounts would have to be cleaned up by hand.

• Adding a new group did not validate if the group name was null

Version 1.1.0

Features:

• Added code to bootstrap to remove generated password from the system disk on startup.

• This information should be noted before the application is started.

Bug Fixes:

There were no bug fixes in this release