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ZC Buildout recipe for setting up a Google App Engine development environment

Project description

The rod.recipe.appengine is a zc.buildout recipe to build, test and deploy projects for the Google App Engine. 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.

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.

patch

Specifies a patch file for patching the SDK sourcetree. This options is not allowed if appengine-lib is specified.

patch-options

List of patch options separated by blanks. (Default=-p1)

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 into a 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
... patch = %(patch)s
... patch-options = -p1
... 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')
>>> patch = os.path.join(os.path.split(tests.__file__)[0], 'patch.diff')
>>> write('buildout.cfg', buildout_template %
...       {'dev': egg_src+' '+baz_pkg+' '+tiny_pkg, 'patch': patch})

Running the buildout gives us:

>>> output = system(buildout)
>>> if output.endswith(
...     "patching file lib/patched/patched.txt\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()

We’ve configured the recipe to patch the SDK’s source tree:

>>> gae_sdk_root = os.path.join('parts', 'google_appengine')
>>> patched_dir = os.listdir(os.path.join(gae_sdk_root, 'lib'))
>>> patched_file = open(
...     os.path.join(gae_sdk_root, 'google', 'appengine', 'tools',
...                  'dev_appserver.py')).read()[:1300]
>>> 'patched' in patched_dir
True
>>> '# This file is patched by the patch command.' in patched_file
True

Changes

1.6.0 2010-04-03

  • New option to specify a patch file for modifying the Google App Engine SDK source tree.

1.5.1 2010-03-27

  • Fixes an issue where setuptools wasn’t found.

  • Distribute can be used as a replacement for setuptools.

  • Added credits for Attila Olah.

1.5.0 2010-03-27

  • Adds option to copy setuptool’s original pkg_resources.py file into app directory rather than writing a dummy stub.

1.4.1 2010-01-18

1.4.0 2009-08-26

  • Added server-script option.

  • Tests added.

1.3.1 2009-07-15

  • Fixed issue when copying egg contents.

1.3.0 2009-07-04

  • Added options zip-packages and exclude.

1.2.1 2009-07-03

  • Uses a much better method for excluding optional c extensions and compiled modules.

  • A step forward in platform independence.

1.2.0 2009-06-24

  • Creates appcfg script.

1.1.1 2009-06-07

  • Makes symbolic links for application files.

  • Downloads stay untouched.

1.1.0 2009-04-08

  • 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

  • Requires Google App Engine SDK 1.1.8

1.0.0b4 2008-09-04

  • Create and use PROJECT_HOME/var to place temporary project files like data base files.

1.0.0b3 2008-09-02

  • Copy package contents to temporary library directory.

1.0.0b2 2008-09-02

  • Installs the whole distribution in the parts directory now. So it is ready to test and deploy.

1.0.0b1 2008-09-01

  • First beta release.

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