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Jorey Bump
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Wed Jul 13 16:25:15 EDT 2005
fabiovenni at tin.it wrote: > I'm a totally newbie in python and mod_python. Just a couple of weeks of > part-time toying. > > I've managed to write a minimal blog using the mod_python.publisher handler. > This is the code, gross probably but does the job: [...] > Now, I was considering to build up a more complicated example and make it > my blog actual engine. I've choosen to use publisher because I like the mapping > URL --> callable object, but now I have some doubts that TFM doesn't solve, > or probably it will in a couple of month time. What is a callable object > in python? Read the short manual from start to finish, it's very concise so it's easy to miss the finer points. Be sure to read the manual for your version of mod_python! Here is a demo module to give some idea of what objects are published, although it's not exhaustive (and may even give slightly different results between mod_python versions). It will create links for you to try in your browser: demo.py: """ Demo module to show published objects when using mod_python.publisher. """ import sys from sys import path _hidden = path docstr = __doc__ mypassword = "BIGsecret!" class SomeClass: "Uh-oh, it's OO" def __init__(self): self.someattr = "hello" def somefunction(self): return "hello" # a published instance someinstance = SomeClass() def somefunction(): "a published function" someattr = "hello" def somefunction(): return "hello" return "hello" dirlist = dir() def index(req): "default function" header = "<html><head><title>Publisher demo</title></head><body><p>" footer = "</p></body></html>" link1 = '<a href="%s">http://host/handlerdir/demo/%s</a> <br>' link2 = '<a href="%s.%s">http://host/handlerdir/demo/%s.%s</a> <br>' link3 = '<a href="%s/%s">http://host/handlerdir/demo/%s/%s</a> <br>' links = ['<a href="../demo/">http://host/handlerdir/demo/</a> <br>'] links.extend([link1 % (i, i) for i in dirlist]) for o in ['someinstance', 'somefunction']: checklist = ['someattr', 'somefunction'] links.extend([link2 % (o, i, o, i) for i in checklist]) links.extend([link3 % (o, i, o, i) for i in checklist]) return "\n".join([header, "\n".join(links), footer]) > As a web designer, navigation is very important to me so I plan websites > starting from the URL, my problem is that I can't think a class structure > that does the job: > > myblogdomain.net/ > myblogdomain.net/index Resolved as the index page > > myblogdomain.net/archives/2005/jun/ Resolved as blog.archives('2005','Jun') > myblogdomain.net/archives/2005 Resolved as blog.archives('2005') You'll probably want to do this instead: myblogdomain.net/archives?y=2005&m=jun > I've been playing around with this: > http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2005-March/017560.html > but I'm confused on how to actually implement it. Do I have to put the Blog > class inside a index.py file? and configure Apache like this: > > <Directory /home/share/mod_python/first/> > SetHandler mod_python > PythonHandler mod_python.publisher > PythonDebug On > </Directory> > > What I'm searching for is an application structure suggestion more than a > coding hint. I would like to have a single controller that handles requests > and traslate them to Blog's method calls, probably proxied by a class that > hanldes to fetch request parameters? It can be tricky to run the entire site from index.py/index(). You may want to use SetHandler None in subdirectories that contain other resources, such as images, css, etc.
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