grokcore.startup 0.2

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')
>>> open(sitezcml, 'w').write('<configure />')

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

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

Now we can call application_factory to get a WSGI application:

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

interactive_debug_prompt(zope_conf_path)

Get an interactive console with a debugging shell started.

Normally used as entry point in projects setup.py.

The debugger will be started with the configuration given in zope.conf_path.

We cannot start an interactive console here, but we can at least import the debugger function:

>>> from grokcore.startup import interactive_debug_prompt

zdaemon_controller(zdaemon_conf_path)

Wrapper function to start a zdaemon.

Normally used as entry point in projects setup.py.

The zdaemon is started using the given configuration in zdaemon_conf_path.

We do not start a complete environment here, but we can at least import the wrapper function:

>>> from grokcore.startup import zdaemon_controller

Clean up:

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