I don't know whether any of you are familiar with Grails (www.grails.org); I was using it for a few years but for a variety of reasons have moved to Python. However there are features of Grails that I did find particular useful and I felt that there may be some benefit, to me at least, in reproducing some of the features of Grails.
To summarise: I've written a little Python script that you can use to create a skeleton model file with the model as a class in its own file; you then complete the model by adding Field(...) definitions to the define_table () entry and optionally add a few other attributes etc. The generator script can then write the controller and the set of views for that model. And then repeat for your various models. You will then have a working application immediately without writing any code but, of course, in reality most will want to tailor the views and controllers to their own requirements but the generated Python scripts provide a sound base from which anyone can work. It can cope with one to one and one to many relationships, dealing with the data presentation by the use of modal pop-ups and with appropriate code in the controllers. Currently it works although I am in the process of putting the final touches and, needless to say, there are a good many little things that are still required. And there are some, but not many, conventions that must be used in order that the generator can make sense of the model. I'm posting this to discover whether there is anyone else who may be interested in this type of application development and who may be interested in the generator script. I am minded to make the whole thing open source as it's hardly any of my ideas and others may want to make use of it to take a slightly different direction or whatever... If you are interested then either reply here or email me. I would point out that the generated code does not make use of some web2py features: it does not use self-submission nor does it make use of features like SQLFORM, I did not feel that in my particular applications these offered me any great benefits and may have complicated some matters. If anything it tries to keep the whole thing simple with very visible code and HTML and I suppose could very readily be applied to other environments. The starting point was actually Bruno Rocha's http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/ show/1478/using-modules-in-web2py where he describes using model classes in /modules. And I do understand that this whole approach may be seen as not in the spirit of web2py so I'll apologise in advance if I am causing any distress. graham -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
