A web framework built on Flask & SQLAlchemy. Somewhere North of Flask but South of Django.
Project description
Keg is an opinionated but flexible web framework built on Flask and SQLAlchemy.
Keg’s Goal
The goal for this project is to encapsulate Flask best practices and libraries so devs can avoid boilerplate and work on the important stuff.
We will lean towards being opinionated on the big things (like SQLAlchemy as our ORM) while supporting hooks and customizations as much as possible.
Think North of Flask but South of Django.
Features
Coming (maybe not so) soon. :)
Installation
pip install keg
App Configuration
CLI Command
The command <myapp> develop config
will give detailed information about the files and objects
being used to configure an application.
Profile Prority
All configuration classes with the name DefaultProfile
will be applied to the app’s config
first.
Then, the configuration classes that match the “selected” profile will be applied on top of the
app’s existing configuration. This makes the settings from the “selected” profile override any
settings from the DefaultProfile.
Practically speaking, any configuration that applies to the entire app regardless of what context
it is being used in will generally go in myapp.config
in the DefaultProfile
class.
Selecting a Configuration Profile
The “selected” profile is the name of the objects that the Keg configuration handling code will look for. It should be a string.
A Keg app considers the “selected” profile as follows:
If
config_profile
was passed intomyapp.init()
as an argument, use it as the selected profile. The--profile
cli option uses this method to set the selected profile and therefore has the highest priority.Look in the app’s environment namespace for “CONFIG_PROFILE”. If found, use it.
If running tests, use “TestProfile”. Whether or not the app is operating in this mode is controlled by the use of:
myapp.init(use_test_profile=True)
which is used byMyApp.testing_prep()
looking in the app’s environment namespace for “USE_TEST_PROFILE” which is used by
keg.testing.invoke_command()
Look in the app’s main config file (
app.config
) and all it’s other config files for the variableDEFAULT_PROFILE
. If found, use the value from the file with highest priority.
Keg Development
To develop on keg, begin by running our tests:
git clone https://github.com/level12/keg keg-src cd keg-src cp cp keg_apps/db/user-config-tpl.py ~/.config/keg_apps.db/keg_apps.db-config.py # edit the DB connection info in this file (you don't have to use vim): vim ~/.config/keg_apps.db/keg_apps.db-config.py tox
You can then examine tox.ini for insights into our development process. In particular, we:
use
py.test
for testing (and coverage analysis)use
flake8
for lintingstore
pip
requirements files inrequirements/
cache wheels in
requirements/wheelhouse
for faster & more reliable CI builds
Dependency Management
Adding a dependency involves:
Adding the dependency to one of the requirements files in
requirements/
.Running
wheelhouse build
Preview Readme
When updating the readme, use restview --long-description
to preview changes.
Issues & Discussion
Please direct questions, comments, bugs, feature requests, etc. to: https://github.com/level12/keg/issues
Current Status
Very Alpha, expect changes.
Changelog
0.3.1 released 2013-03-17
Fixed 0.3.0 build where readme wouldn’t install correctly
Cleaned up repo which had a coverage report commited
Added a new build environment
0.3.0 released 2015-09-16
better pypi classifiers
use Wheelhouse for dependency management
Add tests for
BaseView
auto-assign feature.Add an asset manager.
Templates can now use the
assets_include
tag in Jinja templates to automatically include the content of a file with the same base name but a ‘css’ or ‘js’ suffix. Seekeg_apps/templating/templates/assets_in_template.html
for example.Templates can now use the
assets_content
tag to include content with a specific suffix. Seekeg_apps/templating/templates/assets_content.html
for example.
Adjust DB clearing so that
prep_empty()
is called after during db_clear() and not onlydb_init_with_clear().
Fix selection of configuration profile so that the ordering is consitent for app instances created by
testing_prep()
andinvoke_command()
.
Backwards incompatibility notes:
In the unlikely event you were relying on
keg.db:DatabaseManager.prep_empty()
in a non-default way, you may have some adjustments to make.myapp.config_profile
has been removed. Usemyapp.config.profile
instead.the signature of
MyApp()
andmyapp.init()
has changed.
development version: 2015-05-25
Remove
Keg.testing_cleanup()
: wasn’t really neededFix db init when SQLALCHEMY_BINDS config option not present but DB feature enabled
Adjust the way Jinja filters and globals are handled. Keg will now process
.template_filters
and.template_globals
(both should be dicts) if defined on an app.add signals and commands for database init and clearing
new
Keg.visit_modules
attribute & related functionality to have Keg load Python modules after the app has been setup.
BC changes required:
if you were using
Keg.testing_cleanup()
explicitly, remove it.If using
.jinja_filters
on your app, rename to.template_filters
development version: 2015-05-23
Making changes to the way database interactions are handled.
Move
keg.sqlalchemy
tokeg.db
keg.Keg
’ssqlalchemy_*
properties have been renamed, seedb_*
variables instead.All database management is being delegated to an application specific instance of
keg.db.DatabaseManager
. The class used to manage the db is selected bykeg.Keg.db_manager_cls
so custom db management functionality for an app can be easily implemented by overriding that method on an app and specifying a different DB manager.keg.db.DatabaseManager
is multi-connection aware using the “bind” functionality adopted by Flask-SQLAlchemy.Added
keg_apps.db
application and related tests.Added
keg.db.dialect_ops
to manager RDBMS specific database interactions.Move
clear_db()
functionality intokeg.db.dialect_ops
Add concept of dialect options to Keg config handling (
KEG_DB_DIALECT_OPTIONS
). The PostgreSQL dialect handles the optionpostgresql.schemas
to facilitate the testing setup of multiple schemas in a PostgreSQL database. Seekeg_apps.db.config
for example usage.
BC changes required:
On your app, if you have
sqlalchemy_enabled
set, change it todb_enabled
If importing from
keg.sqlalchemy
change tokeg.db
.
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