rod.recipe.appengine 1.5.1

Credits

Thanks to Attila Olah who provided a patch which fixes two issues where the recipe wasn’t able to find the original pkg_resources.py file. He also enabled the recipe to be used together with distribute as a replacement for setuptools.

A brief documentation

This recipe takes a number of options:

appengine-lib

Path to an already installed appengine library

eggs

List of required eggs

exclude

A list of basenames to be excluded when setting up the application files, e.g. the whole ‘tests’ directory.

packages

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

server-script

The name of the script to run the development server.

src

The directory which contains the project source files.

url

The url for fetching the google appengine distribution

use_setuptools_pkg_resources

Flag whether the recipe shall copy setuptool’s pkg_resources.py into the app directory rather than writing a dummy version. (Default=False)

zip-name

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

zip-packages

Flag whether external packages shall be zipped in single zip file. (Default=True)

Tests

We will define a buildout template used by the recipe:

>>> buildout_template = """
... [buildout]
... develop = %(dev)s
... parts = sample
...
... [sample]
... recipe = rod.recipe.appengine
... eggs = foo.bar
... packages =
...     bazpkg
...     tinypkg
... server-script = dev_appserver
... zip-packages = False
... exclude = tests
... url = http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/google_appengine_1.3.2.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')
>>> baz_pkg = os.path.join(os.path.split(tests.__file__)[0], 'bazpkg')
>>> tiny_pkg = os.path.join(os.path.split(tests.__file__)[0], 'tinypkg')
>>> write('buildout.cfg', buildout_template %
...       {'dev': egg_src+' '+baz_pkg+' '+tiny_pkg})

Running the buildout gives us:

>>> output = system(buildout)
>>> if output.endswith("Google App Engine distribution...\n"): True
... else: print output
True

And now we try to run the appserver script:

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

There should be a configuration script in bin as well:

>>> print system(os.path.join('bin', 'appcfg'))
Usage: appcfg [options] <action>
<BLANKLINE>
...
<BLANKLINE>

Let’s see if the ‘tests’ directory has been excluded:

>>> l = os.listdir(os.sep.join(['parts', 'sample', 'foo', 'bar']))
>>> assert 'tests' not in l

There should be a baz package within our application directory:

>>> assert 'baz' in os.listdir(os.sep.join(['parts', 'sample']))

Let’s define another buildout template used by the recipe:

>>> buildout_template = """
... [buildout]
... develop = %(dev)s
... parts = second_sample
...
... [second_sample]
... recipe = rod.recipe.appengine
... eggs = foo.bar
... use_setuptools_pkg_resources = True
... packages =
...     bazpkg
...     tinypkg
... zip-packages = False
... exclude = tests
... url = http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/google_appengine_1.3.2.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')
>>> baz_pkg = os.path.join(os.path.split(tests.__file__)[0], 'bazpkg')
>>> tiny_pkg = os.path.join(os.path.split(tests.__file__)[0], 'tinypkg')
>>> write('buildout.cfg', buildout_template %
...       {'dev': egg_src+' '+baz_pkg+' '+tiny_pkg})

Running the buildout gives us:

>>> output = system(buildout)
>>> if output.endswith(
...     "Google App Engine distribution already downloaded.\n"): True
... else: print output
True

And now we try to run the appserver script:

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

Let’s have a look if all dependent packages are copied into our application directory:

>>> os.path.isfile(os.path.join('parts', 'second_sample', 'tinymodule.py'))
True
>>> os.path.isdir(os.path.join('parts', 'second_sample', 'baz'))
True

Setuptool’s original pkg_resources.py file should be copied into our app directory:

>>> pkg_resources = os.path.join(
...     'parts', 'second_sample', 'pkg_resources.py')
>>> os.path.isfile(pkg_resources)
True
>>> pkg_resources_file = open(pkg_resources, "r")
>>> pkg_resources_file.read().startswith('def _dummy_func')
False
>>> pkg_resources_file.close()

Changes