Great work Sanjiv, it's really a lot of stuff! I'm going to see all your work. I see that paging works well.
Michele. On Aug 18, 5:27 pm, Sanjiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Final status report for the project: > "ToscaWidgets Library for jQuery & OpenLayers" > GSoC 2008 > Mentoring Org: TurboGears > Student: Sanjiv Singh > Mentor: Christopher Perkins > > Dear Community, > > The coding for GSoC officially ends today at 19:00 UTC. Before I move > on to the report, I wish to convey my sincere thanks and gratitude to > my mentor Christopher Perkins[1] who showed faith in me and constantly > guided and encouraged me to move ahead. I would like to specially > thank TG2[2] project lead Mark Ramm and ToscaWidgets[3] creator > Alberto Valverde who have helped me a lot during the project. I would > also like to thank our GSoC Admin Christopher Arndt, Michele Bertoldi, > Laureano Arcanio, Bruno Melo and rest of the TurboGears Community for > their help and support. > > I also thank Eric Lemonie of Camp to Camp for helping me move ahead > with MapFish and to the entire MapFish and OpenLayers Community for > their support. I thank Christopher Schmidt of Metacarta Labs for > OpenLayers and TileCache. > > Although the initial project accepted for GSoC involved creating > ToscaWidgets for OpenLayers and jQuery, after creating several widgets > with jQuery and ExtJS, it was felt that some work on bringing in > server side geo components to TG2 along with OpenLayers would enable > the use of TG for GIS Applications and the TurboGears Extension > tg.ext.geo[6] project was born. At the end of coding for GSoC 2008 the > status of all these works are as follows:- > > 1) Widgets for jQuery and ExtJS > Several widgets were created for jQuery and ExtJS. These include > jQuery AjaxForm, jQuery Treeview, FlexiGrid, ExtJS SingleSelectCombo, > ItemSelector (aka SelectShuttle). The documentaion and examples for > these widgets with TG2 were in the old wiki documentation. They would > be moved into the official TG2 ToscaWidgets Cookbook docs soon. > > 2) Widgets for JSUnit[4] > While coding for these widgets, a need for javascript unit testing > tool was felt and a widget for JSUnit[7] Javascript Unit Testing > framework was developed. A runner widget for in-browser running of the > tests was also created. The documentation for TG2 usage would be moved > from old wiki to official docs soon. > > 3) OpenLayers[5] > A ToscaWidgets library has been created for OpenLayers Javascript > Mapping toolkit. At present it has support for maps with layers of > GoogleMaps, YahooMaps, VirtualEarth, WMS, OpenStreetMap layers using > Mapnik and OSMRender, and Vector Layers (GML). The standard map > control components like layer switcher, panzoom, etc. have been added. > Controls for vector editing are also supported. A demo application > with WMS and GML layers and vector editing of features can been seen > athttp://sanjiv.homelinux.net:8081/. Feel free to edit the vectors > and deform the geography as I have a backup of the db ;) > > 4) TG2 Geo Extension with MapFish[6] > The tg.ext.geo extension implements the server side component for > vector query and editing. It is mainly based on MapFish server. > However the templates are modified to suit the TG Object Distach > BaseController. This may change in future and be fully based on > MapFish server which uses a RESTFul controller. The extension makes > use of existing PythonGIS tools like Shapely and GeoJSON. Thanks to > Eric Lemonie, Sean Gillies, Matt Russell and the GISPython community > for bringing the GIS tools to python developers. A demo application > with openlayers based feature selection and a DojoGrid for displaying > the attribute data can be seen athttp://sanjiv.homelinux.net/. > Thanks to Michele Bertoldi for helping me with his Dojo Grid. > > 5) TG2 Geo Extension for TileCache[7] > tg.ext.geo has a paster command for reading a tilecache config file > and generating controller code with TileCache mounted as a WSGI app in > TG2. This makes it possible to use TileCache within TG for caching of > WMS tiles using the WMS-C standard proposed by MetaCarta Labs. Once > again thanks to Christopher Schmidt for creating TileCache. A demo app > with backend tile generation using TileCache running in a TG2 app can > be seen athttp://sanjiv.homelinux.net:8082/. > > Over the next couple of weeks I would write tests and documentation > for all these components and would continue to develop and maintain > them in future as these works are far from complete. I would be > extremely happy to receive your views, suggestions, feedbacks, etc. I > would be most delighted to see people join in and move these tools > forward. > > Thanks once again to the open source community and Google for this > great learning experience. > > Regards > Sanjiv > > [1] http://www.percious.com > [2] http://turbogears.org > [3] http://toscawidgets.org > [4] http://jsunit.net > [5] http://openlayers.org > [6] http://mapfish.org > [7] http://tilecache.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
