grokcore.startup 4.1

Setting up a project with grokproject

The most convenient way to setup a Grok project is using grokproject. Once installed, you can a project like this:

$ grokproject Sample

which will generate all configuration files for you.

Setting up a project manually

Before we can make use of grokcore.startup, we have to setup several configuration files in the project root:

• setup.py

• buildout.cfg (optional)

• zope.conf (normally found in the parts/etc/ subdirectory of your Grok project)

• site.zcml (normally found in the parts/etc/ subdirectory of your Grok project)

• deploy.ini (or any other .ini-file; normally found in the parts/etc/ subdirectory of your Grok project)

When we want to setup a Zope instance as paster served WSGI application, then we have to set a paste.app_factory entry point in setup.py. A minimal setup could look like this:

# setup.py
from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(name='sampleproject',
      version='0.1dev',
      description="A sample project",
      long_description="""Without a long description.""",
      classifiers=[],
      keywords="",
      author="U.N.Owen",
      author_email="",
      url="",
      license="",
      package_dir={'': 'src'},
      packages=find_packages('src'),
      include_package_data=True,
      zip_safe=False,
      install_requires=['setuptools',],
      entry_points = """
      [paste.app_factory]
      main = grokcore.startup:application_factory
      """,
      )

Here the paste.app_factory entry point pointing to grokcore.startup:application_factory is important.

Furthermore we need at least a minimal buildout.cfg which enables zc.buildout to create the control scripts for our instance:

[buildout]
develop = .
parts = app

[app]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs = sampleproject
       grokcore.startup
       Paste
       PasteScript
       PasteDeploy

Here an egg-entry for grokcore.startup might be important, if it is not required otherwise by your application. Projects generated by grokproject will automatically include such a dependency and upcoming versions of Grok will pull in grokcore.startup anyway, so that grokcore.startup would not be required in this list of eggs any more.

Next we need site.zcml and zope.conf files to define the Zope instance. These configurations are completely independent from being served by Paste or not. If you are upgrading an old Grok project, you can use site.zcml and zope.conf of those project as-is. You only have to take care of the maybe changed site-definition entry in zope.conf (see below).

The file site.zcml can be quite short, but for real projects you certainly want to have some useful content in here:

<configure />

A short zope.conf file for use in tests could look like this:

site-definition site.zcml

<zodb>
  <mappingstorage />
</zodb>

<eventlog>
  <logfile>
    path STDOUT
   </logfile>
</eventlog>

where the site-definition entry should point to the location of the file site.zcml. In regular Grok projects those files are put into the etc/ subdirectory of your project root.

Finally we have to provide a deploy.ini (or another .ini-file), which tells paster where to find the pieces. This is also put into the etc/ subdirectory of your project root in regular Grok projects created by grokproject:

[app:main]
use = egg:sampleproject

[server:main]
use = egg:Paste#http
host = 127.0.0.1
port = 8080

[DEFAULT]
zope_conf = %(here)s/zope.conf

application_factory(global_conf, **local_conf)

grokcore.startup provides a function application_factory which delivers a WSGIPublisherApplication instance when called with an appropriate configuration. See the zope.app.wsgi documentation to learn more about Zope objects supporting WSGI.

A call to this function is normally required as entry point in setuptools-driven paster environments (see http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/#paste-app-factory).

We have to create our own site definition file – which will simply be empty – to provide a minimal test:

>>> import os, tempfile
>>> temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
>>> sitezcml = os.path.join(temp_dir, 'site.zcml')
>>> out = open(sitezcml, 'w')
>>> _ = out.write('<configure />')
>>> out.close()

Furthermore we create a Zope configuration file, which is also quite plain:

>>> zope_conf = os.path.join(temp_dir, 'zope.conf')
>>> out = open(zope_conf, 'w')
>>> _ = out.write('''
... site-definition %s
...
... <zodb>
...   <mappingstorage />
... </zodb>
...
... <eventlog>
...   <logfile>
...     path STDOUT
...   </logfile>
... </eventlog>
... ''' % sitezcml)
>>> out.close()

Now we can call application_factory to get a WSGI application:

>>> from grokcore.startup import application_factory
>>> app_factory = application_factory({'zope_conf': zope_conf})
>>> app_factory
<zope.app.wsgi.WSGIPublisherApplication object at 0x...>

debug_application_factory(global_conf, **local_conf)

There’s a second application factory that can be used when debugging the application, especially when using the z3c.evalexception middleware.

When debugging zope is instructed not to handle any raised exceptions itself. The z3c.evalexception middleware then catches the exceptions and provides an user interfaces for debugging in the webbrowser.

As a result also the IUnauthorized execption would not be handled by zope and the authentication mechanisms of zope are not triggered. As a result, when debugging one cannot login.

The debug_application_factory function accepts the “exempt-exceptions” configuration option. The value for this option should be a comma seperated list of dotted names for each of the execptions that should still be handled by zope and not re-raised to be catched by the middleware.

>>> from grokcore.startup import debug_application_factory
>>> app_factory = debug_application_factory({'zope_conf': zope_conf})
>>> app_factory
<zope.app.wsgi.WSGIPublisherApplication object at 0x...>

>>> from zope.interface import implementer
>>> from zope.security.interfaces import IUnauthorized
>>> @implementer(IUnauthorized)
... class UnauthorizedException(object):
...     pass
>>>
>>> from zope.component import queryAdapter
>>> from zope.publisher.interfaces import IReRaiseException

Since the exempt-execptions configuration option was not passed, there’s no IReRaiseException adapter registered for any type of exceptions including IUnauthorized:

>>> error = UnauthorizedException()
>>> reraise = queryAdapter(error, IReRaiseException, default=None)
>>> reraise is None
True

When the option is passed, the adapter will be registered. Calling this adapter yields False, telling zope not to reraise this particular exception.

>>> app_factory = debug_application_factory(
...     {'zope_conf': zope_conf},
...     **{'exempt-exceptions': 'zope.security.interfaces.IUnauthorized'})
>>>
>>> reraise = queryAdapter(error, IReRaiseException, default=None)
>>> reraise is None
False
>>> reraise()
False

Clean up the temp_dir

>>> import shutil
>>> shutil.rmtree(temp_dir)

interactive_debug_prompt(zope_conf_path)

Get an interactive console with a debugging shell started.

grokcore.startup provides two different debuggers currently: a plain one based on zope.app.debug and a more powerful IPython debugger. The IPython debugger is automatically enabled if you have IPython available in the environment.

You can explicitly enable the IPython debugger by stating:

grokcore.startup [debug]

in the install requirements of your setup.py, probably adding only [debug] to an already existing entry for grokcore.startup. Don’t forget to rerun buildout afterwards.

You can explicitly require one or the other debugger by calling:

grokcore.startup.startup.interactive_debug_prompt(zope_conf)

or:

grokcore.startup.debug.ipython_debug_prompt(zope_conf)

in the [interactive_debugger] section of your buildout.cfg.

>>> import zope.app.appsetup.appsetup
>>> zope.app.appsetup.appsetup._configured = False

>>> temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()

>>> sitezcml = os.path.join(temp_dir, 'site.zcml')
>>> out = open(sitezcml, 'w')
>>> _ = out.write(
...    """<configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope">
...   <include package="zope.component" file="meta.zcml"/>
...   <include package="zope.component"/>
...   <include package="zope.traversing"/>
...   <include package="zope.security" file="meta.zcml"/>
...   <include package="zope.security"/>
...   <include package="zope.container"/>
...   <include package="zope.site"/>
...   <include package="zope.app.appsetup"/>
... </configure>""")
>>> out.close()
>>>
>>> zopeconf = os.path.join(temp_dir, 'zope.conf')
>>> out = open(zopeconf, 'w')
>>> _ = out.write("""
...     site-definition %s
...     <zodb>
...       <filestorage>
...         path %s
...       </filestorage>
...     </zodb>
...     <eventlog>
...       <logfile>
...         path STDOUT
...         formatter zope.exceptions.log.Formatter
...       </logfile>
...     </eventlog>
...     """ % (sitezcml, os.path.join(temp_dir, 'Data.fs')))
>>> out.close()
>>>
>>> import sys
>>> old_argv = sys.argv[:]
>>>
>>> script = os.path.join(temp_dir, 'script.py')
>>> out = open(script, 'w')
>>> _ = out.write(
...    """import sys
... from pprint import pprint
... pprint(debugger)
... pprint(app)
... pprint(root)
... pprint(sys.argv)
... pprint(__file__)
... pprint(__name__)""")
>>>
>>> out.close()
>>>
>>> sys.argv = ['interactive_debugger', script]
>>> from grokcore.startup import interactive_debug_prompt
>>> try:
...     interactive_debug_prompt(zopeconf)
... except SystemExit:
...     # Catch the exit from the interactive prompt as it would
...     # exit this test as well.
...     pass
------
...WARNING zope.app.appsetup Security policy is not configured.
Please make sure that securitypolicy.zcml is included in site.zcml
immediately before principals.zcml
...
<zope.app.debug.debug.Debugger object at ...>
<zope.app.debug.debug.Debugger object at ...>
<zope.site.folder.Folder object at ...>
['...script.py']
'...script.py'
'__main__'

Clean up the temp_dir

>>> sys.argv = old_argv
>>> import shutil
>>> shutil.rmtree(temp_dir)