help me to understand the source code about gae-init

[lipis]

You should fork and the clone the newly created repo for your project. You can do modifications there and committing/pushing your changes as usual.

Later if you want to get the latest updates you can either add a new remote or simply:

git pull https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init.git master

[lipis]

This is just a convention that is used in this project, has nothing to do with Flask and that's why you can't find it.

It is used in the model_db_to_object function
https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init/blob/master/main/util.py#L117-L129

which eventually is being used in producing JSON responses like this one:
https://gae-init.appspot.com/_s/user/

So these _PROPERTIES are there to have a better control of what exactly you want to expose to the JSON/JSONP services instead of exposing them all as you could do with the build in stuff.

Does that make any sense?

[walkerwzy]

yep, very clearly, and I got the for prop in model_db._PROPERTIES: statement, which explians eveything ^^

[lipis]

are you just playing with it or you are building in public app with gae-init? I would be interested to see what you have done :)

[walkerwzy]

I do have a site http://www.dig-music.com, build on a project: https://code.google.com/p/gae-django-cms/, but it's on python 2.5 and didn't maintained since 2011, so I'd rather have my own CMS, based on gae-init, though I'm a .Net guy

[lipis]

Nice!! Looking forward for the gae-init version.. whenever you have something to share/show let me know :)

[walkerwzy]

No problem, and thanks for your work :)

[lipis]

You could have it dual languages very easily by adding another remote to https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init-babel and merge it to your project..!

https://babel.gae-init.appspot.com/l/zh/

Also if you want to contribute with translations would be super awesome... https://crowdin.net/project/gae-init from where you could get the initial translations for the core app!

[walkerwzy]

I've noticed that

[walkerwzy]

hi, how and where does the route /p/... mapped?

[lipis]

https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init/blob/master/main/app.yaml#L34-L36

[lipis]

But not everything that is in /static directory is being uploaded to production. Check also the skip_files section..

[lipis]

Did you figure out what is going where?

[walkerwzy]

yes, I just simply think that all flask matters, and Alfred's full text search seems not work~~
I forgot gae has it's priority

[lipis]

if you want to do full text search on GAE you will have to use the Search API
https://developers.google.com/appengine/training/fts_intro/

[walkerwzy]

oh, you must misunderstand what I meant ^^
I was searching /p/ in local files to find where did it defined, but not get the app.yaml file, so I post here to look for help.

any way, you and your project helped me a lot, I've learned so much on developing with gae and flask, perhaps it will be soon porting my site with this project

[lipis]

One advice that I can give you if you are about to start fresh is to clone the gae-init-babel project if you are about to have i18n support.. and always pull the latest updates from there..!

I keep them always in sync so whatever new comes to gae-init is included almost instantly in other clones..

good luck and if you run into any sort of trouble.. just ping whenever :)

[walkerwzy]

English is good, and enough, so I’m not interest in i18n, yet.
The true question is I forked this repo, and do modifications based on it, I’m new in git and github, I don’s know how to keep sync with your origin repo in my own forked repo.

Or I really need it to clone and pull? but what if I also want to use git to maintain my code?

walker
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One advice that I can give you if you are about to start fresh is to clone the gae-init-babel project if you are about to have i18n support.. and always pull the latest updates from there..!
I keep them always in sync so whatever new comes to gae-init is included almost instantly in other clones..
good luck and if you run into any sort of trouble.. just ping whenever :)

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[lipis]

Here is a good resource for learning git.. http://git-scm.com/book

[walkerwzy]

I see, and will have a try :)

[lipis]

A bit of topic.. but could you help translating and review the current translations in chinese?! Since my chinese are very very limited :)

https://crowdin.net/project/gae-init

I can add you to the project if you're interested..

[walkerwzy]

Of course, I'll try my best, and you know a little Chinese, that's very amazing

[lipis]

I know how to write China in Chinese... and that's pretty much what I know..

[lipis]

You can join from here: crowdin.net/project/gae-init/invite?d=n6j...

[lipis]

Never mind.. just saw the request :)

[walkerwzy]

I'm in :)

[lipis]

Thanks man.. here you are: http://babel.gae-init.appspot.com/l/zh/

[walkerwzy]

Never mind :)

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[walkerwzy]

hi, I have a model definition like this:

class Article(ndb.Model):
    author = ndb.KeyProperty(kind=User)
    ...
class User(ndb.Model):
    name = ndb.StringProperty()
    ...

If I've retrieved some models from db like

u = model.Article.get_by_id(someid)

or

us = model.Article.query(somefilter)

and have passed to Jinja2, how can I use the user's name this way u.author.name in template files?
or I can only use StructuredProperty(which means not the reference of the original one?) rather than KeyProperty in this case?

In some other language it's easy to populate what you want from reference keys, but I looked up the docs of ndb, seems neither population nor projection can do the work

[lipis]

You can do it like: u.author.key.get().name

[lipis]

Or you can create a ndb.ComputedProperty to cache this value if you are using it too extensively later on..

[walkerwzy]

both are great, I'll have a try

[lipis]

for the future these kind of questions are better placed in StackOverflow where more people could be benefited as it's not only gae-init specific

[walkerwzy]

Hey, I've rewrite my blog use gae-init, and have it deployed one GAE, see www.dig-music.com. Though I haven't write a new theme, it might be no different in visual.

some more detail or features can be added later, but the majority work has done, and very thank you for your kindness and help.

In fact , the most great part is the integration of grunt and bower, it makes gae-init works like yeoman

[lipis]

That is awesome man! I'm really glad that it worked out for you.. of course you will have to start fixing the styles for the rest of the pages as well.. but you are on a really good path!

p.s. here you could see how you can add external css libs for example:
https://bitbucket.org/lipis/gae-init-pro/src/tip/bower.json and then
https://bitbucket.org/lipis/gae-init-pro/src/tip/main/static/src/style/style.less