pylons / substanced

An application server based on the Pyramid web framework (http://substanced.net)

Substance D

An application server built upon the Pyramid web framework. It provides a user interface for managing content as well as libraries and utilities which make it easy to create applications.

Visit the main website at http://substanced.net for FAQs and documentation.

There is a mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/substanced-users

The code is at https://github.com/Pylons/substanced

The IRC channel is at irc://freenode.net/#substanced

substanced's Issues

zero-length folder contents return value freaks out sdi slickgrid extensions

The extension requests the folder contents page over and over endlessly until reloaded.

Workflow transition is not persisted

Hello,

It does not seem like workflow changes to items are persisted when made with:

workflow.transition(context, request, to_state)

@iElectric is this to be expected?

Need to merge deform_bootstrap into deform proper

Before we're able to release subd I'd like to merge the features of deform_bootstrap into deform proper (to create a deform 2.0).

ini flag to tell system to index everything in MODE_DEFERRED

Useful for bulk loads.

Contents view nits

Carlos:

Do you think you can

• get rid of the "select all" button when there are no items in the folder
• try to make the data table either wider or expand with the width of the user's browser (make browser very wide to see what i mean)
• try to align the select all button with the left edge of the data table (it's currently relative to the left edge of the screen; make your browser window wide to see it)
• try to put select all and search on the same horizontal plane?

cross-package evolution steps need to be able to assert that they should come before or after another step or set of steps

Currently evolution steps are run per-package in ascending order, but some evolution steps can't successfully be performed without another evolution step in another package having already been run.

Do not imply a reindex when "substanced.autosync_catalogs" is true

Instead, provide a separate setting "substanced.autoreindex_catalogs" as well

postorder utility should manage cache

It should call deactivate and cacheGC every so often.

change password requires old password

Change password form requires the user to enter the old password. This is appropriate if the user is changing his own password, but not if the user is an admin trying to change someone else's password.

"editor" value of slickgrid needs to be assignable per-row, not for the entire column

In many circumstances, some items in a folder will be editable, some won't be, depending on the permissions of the person who renders the page.

Normalize visualization of no-results in grid

Normalize the view of "no results" when the page is first loaded and the view of "no results" as the result of a filtering. Right now the first case shows "No items", and the second an empty grid.

Folder contents view needs to show total number of results somewhere

Folder contents template currently doesn't display the total number of results (the number of items that result from the catalog query implied by the grid rendering) although that information is passed back to it by the view. It needs to display initially and be refreshed whenever an ajax query updates the grid.

Add a web UI for evolution

Which is capable of performing the same job as sd_evolve.

Missing MANIFEST.in or dependency on setuptools-git

Run python setup.py sdist and check the tarball. You'll see it's missing the substanced/sdi/views/templates directory.

Either a MANIFEST.in must be created or, since setup.py declares include_package_data=True, apply the following patch:

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a6aa7d0..fd7c60b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ setup(name='substanced',
       include_package_data=True,
       zip_safe=False,
       install_requires=install_requires,
+      setup_requires=["setuptools-git"],
       tests_require=install_requires,
       test_suite="substanced",
       entry_points="""

Need a mechanism for passing row height to slickgrid.

Currently row height must be hardcoded in settings.js file.

acl edit form should show a spinner

With folders that have lots of items in it, it can take a very long time.

appearance/styling geddon

We should have an intentional design for the SDI UI.

Memory usage of sd_drain_indexing seems high / unbound

Should probably try opening and closing the connection after each indexing batch.

Need columns that have a sorter but do not display as sortable

Users should not be able to change the sort direction, but the column should be able to have a sorter all the same.

Login view always sends to management root

Needs the ability to send to a came_from-type place, for custom integration purposes.

Ordering of reorderable items no longer works

When you attempt to reorder an item by dragging it below some other item in the grid, the grid ends up completely empty.

Logo

Need a Substance D logo.

filter box should wait for a few milliseconds before submitting an ajax query

Currently every character typed (no matter how fast, at least at normal data entry speed) will generate a query. It's very easy to get to a place where all four worker threads are hung up trying to answer queries that effectively no one is listening for.

Need to be able to create "invisible" columns.

It'd be convenient to be able to define columns with zero width so you could assign a filter to a column and put the filter dropdown elsewhere on the page but not display the column. Currently I work around this by overriding get_query on the folder contents view.

is_folder should use hasattr(__is_folder__) instead of IFolder.providedBy

You may not want to register all default IFolder views for all folders.

SDI UI should show lock icon next to locked resources

Use the locking service to determine whether a resource is locked.

Allow user to set his timezone

The default user class should allow the user to set his/her timezone, and dates displayed in the SDI should replace their tzinfo with his or hers.

Column filter values need to be persistent.

If a column filter select box (or whatever) has a value when a non-ajax button is clicked, the input must be re-rendered with the filter select preassigned to the old value.

folder ordering UI

We are experimenting with substanced for a very basic site and @dextermilo has added drag-and-drop folder ordering to the folder contents view using jquery ui. Any interest in us submitting a pull request to add that?

Text filter needs to be "sticky" across button actions

Right now the text filter is cleared when any button is pressed.

Need to be able to omit Add dropdown in folder contents.

Currently there's no easy way to omit it.

Need a clear button for text filter

It'd be convenient to have a clear button for the global text filter.

When there are no buttons in the buttons bar, there should be no checkboxes in the grid

When no buttons exist in the button bar, there are no actions that can be taken against items, so no checkbox grid column should exist.

Folder contents needs a select all

There currently isn't one because we're not sure what "select all" means in a progressive-scrolling list of subobjects.

I think:

• The select all button should be present when the total result set length is less
  than "N" (by default, maybe 50). It should not be present otherwise.
• "N" must be less than the slickgrid "batch size", so that we're sure that all
  items are actually loaded into the grid no matter what.
• When the above conditions are true, the select button should appear.
• Above the select all buton should be a number. This number should reflect the count of items currently selected (whether via "select all" or by normal selection).

Dumper/loader needs ability to more efficiently dump and load blobs

Currently the dumper base64 encodes the blob into YAML. This will be unsat for all but the smallest files.

When server is down, ajax operations on folder grid need to display an error message

Currently the grid just clears and nothing else happens.

Provide a decorator which names a catalog and its index views

We currently need to do this imperatively.

Add a setting for "autoevolve"

Currently there are settings which automatically manage indexes and which automatically reindex when index definitions have changed. There should also be a setting which indicates that the system should do a "latest-evovle" automatically when the process is started.

tab_title is not respected if overridden from an existing management view with the same name

If you override a management view with another more specific one, and supply a tab title, the tab title of the overridden view is still used.

Flash messages should have a dismiss button

Currently to dismiss flash messages that show up in the sdi, you need to reload the page. They should have a dismiss button.

Indexes should probably not assume MODE_ATCOMMIT if queue processor is not active

Right now, if the queue processor is inactive, indexes will presume that they should not add to the queue (e.g. MODE_DEFERRED), and instead, they should treat indexing operations as if they were MODE_ATCOMMIT. This foils bulk load scenarios where you don't actually want to index the data while the loading is happening.

However, right now, the queue is one bigass nonpersistent object. This means that if it's not popped every so often, transactions which append to it need to write a multimegabyte list on every commit.

I'm not sure how to solve this yet.

clicking search button leads to 404

Typealong works but search button 404s

Folder contents javascript needs consolidation

There's javascript in the contents.pt template in different sections as well as javascript loaded in its head. We should centralize it, or at least consolidate it within one part in the template.

Prevent objects from being copied or moved into places where they are not sdi_addable.

Currently it's possible to copy or move an item into a place where it would otherwise not be addable.

Checkbox for row in folder contents should be checked when clicked anywhere in cell

Instead of making people click exactly on the checkbox, they should be able to click anywhere in the cell that holds the checkbox to select it.

Need an easier way to submit custom form values when buttons are pressed

Currently the <form> tag in the contents form surrounds only the buttons; it should probably surround the entire grid.

squash warnings that come out of tox

Particularly when tests run under Py3.

Need an are-you-sure confirmation for button actions

We need to be able to hook up an are-you-sure alert on button press of SDI buttons.

mgmt_path and mgmt_url drop "query" argument on the floor

They need to attach the parameters to the query string.

Hacking.txt instructions are broken

../env/bin/python setup.py dev stops.

As far as I understand, it is due to setup.py stating a dependency on pyramid>=1.4dev.

In other words, there is currently a need to install/develop pyramid as well which is not currently docuemneted in HACKING.txt