Jason Baker wrote:
> I'm working on a WSGI server for my GSOC program for the Kamaelia
> project (you can find more information here:
> http://edit.kamaelia.org/Developers/Projects/KamaeliaPublish).  One
> thing that I was wanting to do with my server was make a few plugins
> for easy integration with the various frameworks.  The idea being that
> a user can make a URLs file to determine which URL should be directed
> to which framework, pass a few options about where their app is
> located, and then be able to run their app with a minimum of trouble.

> The plugin is basically just a WSGI app that will locate the users'
> app and then run it (possibly passing some configuration info).  Thus,
> if a user enters something like this in their URLs file:

> [cherrypy]
> regex: hello
> import_path: plugins.WsgiApps.cpy_app
> cpy_import_path: hello
> cpy_root_attribute: Root
> cpy_http_path: /hello

> ...all the information will be passed to my plugin with "kp."
> prepended in front of it in the environ variable (so that you would
> have kp.regex, kp.import_path, etc.).  At any rate, here is the WSGI
> app that I've got so far:  http://jason.baker.pastebin.com/d10c56e15.

> All I really would like to know is if there's anything that needs to
> be added, changed, removed... you get the idea.

> The CherryPy specific stuff are the entries in the URLs file beginning
> with cpy.  cpy_import_path represents the actual location of the
> module the user wants to load, cpy_root_attribute represents the name
> of the Root object in the tree, and cpy_http_path is the value to be
> passed as the second argument to cherrypy.tree.mount.

> This was really made to run with a basic CherryPy "hello world" type
> app that was given to me by Sylvain (one of the mentors on my
> project), so it's probably overly simplistic.  At any rate, back to my
> original question:  what do you guys think about this?

> Jason Baker wrote:
> > I'm working on a WSGI server for my GSOC program for the Kamaelia
> > project (you can find more information here:
> >http://edit.kamaelia.org/Developers/Projects/KamaeliaPublish).  One
> > thing that I was wanting to do with my server was make a few plugins
> > for easy integration with the various frameworks.  The idea being that
> > a user can make a URLs file to determine which URL should be directed
> > to which framework, pass a few options about where their app is
> > located, and then be able to run their app with a minimum of trouble.

> > The plugin is basically just a WSGI app that will locate the users'
> > app and then run it (possibly passing some configuration info).  Thus,
> > if a user enters something like this in their URLs file:

> > [cherrypy]
> > regex: hello
> > import_path: plugins.WsgiApps.cpy_app
> > cpy_import_path: hello
> > cpy_root_attribute: Root
> > cpy_http_path: /hello

> > ...all the information will be passed to my plugin with "kp."
> > prepended in front of it in the environ variable (so that you would
> > have kp.regex, kp.import_path, etc.).  At any rate, here is the WSGI
> > app that I've got so far:  http://jason.baker.pastebin.com/d10c56e15.

> > All I really would like to know is if there's anything that needs to
> > be added, changed, removed... you get the idea.

> > The CherryPy specific stuff are the entries in the URLs file beginning
> > with cpy.  cpy_import_path represents the actual location of the
> > module the user wants to load, cpy_root_attribute represents the name
> > of the Root object in the tree, and cpy_http_path is the value to be
> > passed as the second argument to cherrypy.tree.mount.

> > This was really made to run with a basic CherryPy "hello world" type
> > app that was given to me by Sylvain (one of the mentors on my
> > project), so it's probably overly simplistic.  At any rate, back to my
> > original question:  what do you guys think about this?

> Not to douse your fire, but that seems an awful lot like what Paste was
> made for...

> Robert Brewer
> fuman...@aminus.org