eghansah wrote:
As to the question on how different this is from other frameworks, I
think there are certainly many similarities. As I admitted in the
writeup, it draws from other projects including django. However, there
is one new idea I haven't seen anywhere . . . not yet at least. In keg,
I try to use URL pattern matching to run one or more functions required
to generate the page the URL is pointing to. For instance, when you try
to access a page like http://www.python.org <http://www.python.org/> Keg
will run all functions whose URL regex matches the URL requested. Their
output is then combined to generate the resulting page. With this
approach, we could have functions that generate menus, those that
generate page content and those that manage logins. These could all be
separately maintained. Keg ties their outputs all together to generate
the page. This means you could work on a menu system and not worry about
how you will generate ads for the page. The possibilities are endless .
. . at least in theory.
Also, each function receives the same input. This means that the
execution of one function does not really affect the execution of any
others. Hopefully this makes debugging much easier. Another good effect
of this idea is that all functions can be run in parallel since they are
independent.
So make your project an add-on to Django or other frameworks. You tell
Django to send all requests to key.py. Keg.py runs the pattern matcher,
call the functions, and re-assembles the result to pass back to Django
for delivery. The functions then have all other components of Django
available.
In other words, don't reinvent the wheel, invent a new wheel cover*.
Terry Jan Reedy
This is possibly a new version of an old saying. Other endings I found
on Google (first 2000 hits) are '', 'improve it', 'improve on it', 'just
add new tyres', 'just identify a colleague (who has done it)', 'Patch,
extend or subclass an existing module', 're-invent its use!', 'write
something new', and '(or worse, a flat tire)'.
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