rod.recipe.appengine 1.1.0

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rod.recipe.appengine
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Buildout recipe for setting up a google appengine development environment.

The rod.recipe.appengine is a zc.buildout recipe to build, test and deploy
projects for the google appengine. It makes it easy to use eggs and resolve
their dependencies automatically.

To be honest, this is a recipe for scrambled eggs. It produces a zip file
containing all configured external packages in a traditional folder hierarchy.

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Google Appengine Recipe
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This recipe takes a number of options:

appengine-lib
Path to an already installed appengine library

eggs
List of required eggs

packages
A list of packages to be included into the zip archive, which will be
uploaded to the appspot.

src
The directory which contains the project source files.

url
The url for fetching the google appengine distribution

zip-name
The name of the zip archive containing all external packages ready
to deploy.


Tests
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We will define a buildout template used by the recipe:

>>> buildout_template = """
... [buildout]
... develop = %(egg_src)s
... parts = sample
...
... [sample]
... recipe = rod.recipe.appengine
... eggs = foo.bar
... url = http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/google_appengine_1.2.0.zip
... """

We'll start by creating a buildout:

>>> import os.path
>>> import rod.recipe.appengine.tests as tests
>>> egg_src = os.path.join(os.path.split(tests.__file__)[0], 'foo.bar')
>>> write('buildout.cfg', buildout_template % {'egg_src': egg_src})

Running the buildout gives us:

>>> output = system(buildout)
>>> if output.endswith("Installing sample.\n"): True
... else: print output
True

And now we try to run the appserver script:

>>> print system(os.path.join('bin', 'sample'))
<BLANKLINE>
...
Invalid arguments
<BLANKLINE>

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Changes
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1.1.0 2009-04-08
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- Mostly rewritten.
- Installs google appengine as part.
- Adding dummy pkg_resources module to handle namespace package relicts.
- Tests added.
- Ready for Google App Engine SDK 1.2.0


1.0.0b5 2009-01-20
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- Requires Google App Engine SDK 1.1.8


1.0.0b4 2008-09-04
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- Create and use PROJECT_HOME/var to place temporary project files like
data base files.


1.0.0b3 2008-09-02
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- Copy package contents to temporary library directory.


1.0.0b2 2008-09-02
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- Installs the whole distribution in the parts directory now. So it is ready
to test and deploy.


1.0.0b1 2008-09-01
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- First beta release.