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5 <title>Software Carpentry Track: Roundup</title>
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35 <h1 align=center>Roundup</h1>
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36 <h3 align=center>An Issue-Tracking System for Knowledge Workers</h3>
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37 <h4 align=center><a href="http://www.lfw.org/ping/">Ka-Ping Yee</a><br>
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39 <h3 align=center>Implementation Guide</h3>
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41 <h2>Contents</h2>
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44 <li>Introduction
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54 </ol>
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55 <li>Roundup Database
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57 <li>Reserved Classes
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59 <li>Users
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60 <li>Messages
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61 <li>Files
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62 </ol>
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63 <li>Item Classes
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64 <li>Interface Specification
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71 </ol>
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72 <li>Command Interface
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107 <h2>1. Introduction</h2>
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109 <p>This document presents a description of the components
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110 of the Roundup system and specifies their interfaces and
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111 behaviour in sufficient detail to guide an implementation.
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112 For the philosophy and rationale behind the Roundup design,
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113 see the first-round Software Carpentry submission for Roundup.
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114 This document fleshes out that design as well as specifying
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115 interfaces so that the components can be developed separately.
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118 <h2>2. The Layer Cake</h2>
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120 <p>Lots of software design documents come with a picture of
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121 a cake. Everybody seems to like them. I also like cakes
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122 (i think they are tasty). So i, too, shall include
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125 <p align=center><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10 border=0 align=center>
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129 E-mail Client
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191 <p>I will now proceed to forgo all table manners and
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192 eat from the bottom of the cake to the top. You may want
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193 to stand back a bit so you don't get covered in crumbs.
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195 <p><hr>
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198 <p>The lowest-level component to be implemented is the hyperdatabase.
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199 The hyperdatabase is intended to be
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200 a flexible data store that can hold configurable data in
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201 records which we call <em>items</em>.
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203 <p>The hyperdatabase is implemented on top of the storage layer,
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204 an external module for storing its data. The storage layer could
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205 be a third-party RDBMS; for a "batteries-included" distribution,
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207 module is suggested.
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209 <h3>3.1. Dates and Date Arithmetic</h3>
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212 way of handling dates. The hyperdatabase module provides
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213 Timestamp objects for
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214 representing date-and-time stamps and Interval objects for
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217 <p>As strings, date-and-time stamps are specified with
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218 the date in international standard format
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219 (<em>yyyy</em>-<em>mm</em>-<em>dd</em>)
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220 joined to the time (<em>hh</em>:<em>mm</em>:<em>ss</em>)
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221 by a period ("."). Dates in
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222 this form can be easily compared and are fairly readable
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223 when printed. An example of a valid stamp is
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224 "<strong>2000-06-24.13:03:59</strong>".
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225 We'll call this the "full date format". When Timestamp objects are
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226 printed as strings, they appear in the full date format with
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227 the time always given in GMT. The full date format is always
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228 exactly 19 characters long.
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230 <p>For user input, some partial forms are also permitted:
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231 the whole time or just the seconds may be omitted; and the whole date
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232 may be omitted or just the year may be omitted. If the time is given,
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233 the time is interpreted in the user's local time zone.
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234 The <tt>Date</tt> constructor takes care of these conversions.
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235 In the following examples, suppose that <em>yyyy</em> is the current year,
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237 day of the month; and suppose that the user is on Eastern Standard Time.
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239 <ul>
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240 <li>"<strong>2000-04-17</strong>" means &lt;Date 2000-04-17.00:00:00&gt;
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246 &lt;Date <em>yyyy</em>-<em>mm</em>-<em>dd</em>.19:25:00&gt;
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252 <p>Date intervals are specified using the suffixes
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254 Time intervals are specified in hh:mm:ss format (the seconds
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257 <ul>
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267 <p>The Date class should understand simple date expressions of the form
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268 <em>stamp</em> + <em>interval</em> and <em>stamp</em> - <em>interval</em>.
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269 When adding or subtracting intervals involving months or years, the
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276 <p>Here is an outline of the Date and Interval classes.
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278 <blockquote>
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279 <pre><small>class <strong>Date</strong>:
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280 def <strong>__init__</strong>(self, spec, offset):
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281 """Construct a date given a specification and a time zone offset.
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285 zone offset from GMT in hours.
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286 """
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288 def <strong>__add__</strong>(self, interval):
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289 """Add an interval to this date to produce another date."""
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291 def <strong>__sub__</strong>(self, interval):
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292 """Subtract an interval from this date to produce another date."""
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294 def <strong>__cmp__</strong>(self, other):
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295 """Compare this date to another date."""
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297 def <strong>__str__</strong>(self):
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298 """Return this date as a string in the yyyy-mm-dd.hh:mm:ss format."""
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300 def <strong>local</strong>(self, offset):
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301 """Return this date as yyyy-mm-dd.hh:mm:ss in a local time zone."""
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304 def <strong>__init__</strong>(self, spec):
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305 """Construct an interval given a specification."""
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307 def <strong>__cmp__</strong>(self, other):
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308 """Compare this interval to another interval."""
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311 """Return this interval as a string."""
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312 </small></pre>
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315 <p>Here are some examples of how these classes would behave in practice.
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316 For the following examples, assume that we are on Eastern Standard
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317 Time and the current local time is 19:34:02 on 25 June 2000.
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319 <blockquote><pre><small
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321 <span class="output">&lt;Date 2000-06-26.00:34:02&gt;</span>
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323 <span class="output">"2000-06-25.19:34:02"</span>
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327 <span class="output">&lt;Date 1997-04-17.00:00:00&gt;</span>
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329 <span class="output">&lt;Date 2000-01-25.00:00:00&gt;</span>
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331 <span class="output">&lt;Date 2000-08-14.03:13:00&gt;</span>
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333 <span class="output">&lt;Date 2000-06-25.19:25:00&gt;</span>
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334 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">Interval(" 3w 1 d 2:00")</span>
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335 <span class="output">&lt;Interval 22d 2:00&gt;</span>
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336 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">Date(". + 2d") - Interval("3w")</span>
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337 <span class="output">&lt;Date 2000-06-07.00:34:02&gt;</span
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340 <h3>3.2. Items and Classes</h3>
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342 <p>Items contain data in <em>properties</em>. To Python, these
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343 properties are presented as the key-value pairs of a dictionary.
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344 Each item belongs to a <em>class</em> which defines the names
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345 and types of its properties. The database permits the creation
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346 and modification of classes as well as items.
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348 <h3>3.3. Identifiers and Designators</h3>
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350 <p>Each item has a numeric identifier which is unique among
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351 items in its class. The items are numbered sequentially
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352 within each class in order of creation, starting from 1.
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353 The <em>designator</em>
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354 for an item is a way to identify an item in the database, and
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355 consists of the name of the item's class concatenated with
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356 the item's numeric identifier.
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358 <p>For example, if "spam" and "eggs" are classes, the first
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359 item created in class "spam" has id 1 and designator "spam1".
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360 The first item created in class "eggs" also has id 1 but has
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361 the distinct designator "eggs1". Item designators are
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362 conventionally enclosed in square brackets when mentioned
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363 in plain text. This permits a casual mention of, say,
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364 "[patch37]" in an e-mail message to be turned into an active
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365 hyperlink.
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367 <h3>3.4. Property Names and Types</h3>
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369 <p>Property names must begin with a letter.
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371 <p>A property may be one of five <em>basic types</em>:
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373 <ul>
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374 <li><em>String</em> properties are for storing arbitrary-length
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375 strings.
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377 <li><em>Date</em> properties store date-and-time stamps.
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382 the value is an integer, the id of the chosen item.
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395 <p>The hyperdb module provides property objects to designate
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397 specifying what properties belong in classes.
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411 items in a specified class."""
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416 to items in a specified class."""
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421 <blockquote><pre><small
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422 >class <strong>Database</strong>:
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423 """A database for storing records containing flexible data types."""
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424
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425 def <strong>__init__</strong>(self, storagelocator, journaltag):
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426 """Open a hyperdatabase given a specifier to some storage.
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427
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428 The meaning of 'storagelocator' depends on the particular
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429 implementation of the hyperdatabase. It could be a file name,
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430 a directory path, a socket descriptor for a connection to a
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431 database over the network, etc.
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432
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433 The 'journaltag' is a token that will be attached to the journal
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434 entries for any edits done on the database. If 'journaltag' is
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435 None, the database is opened in read-only mode: the Class.create(),
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436 Class.set(), and Class.retire() methods are disabled.
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437 """
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438
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439 def <strong>__getattr__</strong>(self, classname):
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440 """A convenient way of calling self.getclass(classname)."""
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441
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442 def <strong>getclasses</strong>(self):
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443 """Return a list of the names of all existing classes."""
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444
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445 def <strong>getclass</strong>(self, classname):
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446 """Get the Class object representing a particular class.
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447
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448 If 'classname' is not a valid class name, a KeyError is raised.
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449 """
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450
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451 class <strong>Class</strong>:
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452 """The handle to a particular class of items in a hyperdatabase."""
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453
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454 def <strong>__init__</strong>(self, db, classname, **properties):
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455 """Create a new class with a given name and property specification.
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456
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457 'classname' must not collide with the name of an existing class,
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458 or a ValueError is raised. The keyword arguments in 'properties'
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459 must map names to property objects, or a TypeError is raised.
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460 """
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461
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462 # Editing items:
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463
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464 def <strong>create</strong>(self, **propvalues):
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465 """Create a new item of this class and return its id.
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466
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467 The keyword arguments in 'propvalues' map property names to values.
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468 The values of arguments must be acceptable for the types of their
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469 corresponding properties or a TypeError is raised. If this class
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470 has a key property, it must be present and its value must not
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471 collide with other key strings or a ValueError is raised. Any other
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472 properties on this class that are missing from the 'propvalues'
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473 dictionary are set to None. If an id in a link or multilink
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474 property does not refer to a valid item, an IndexError is raised.
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475 """
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476
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477 def <strong>get</strong>(self, itemid, propname):
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478 """Get the value of a property on an existing item of this class.
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479
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480 'itemid' must be the id of an existing item of this class or an
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481 IndexError is raised. 'propname' must be the name of a property
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482 of this class or a KeyError is raised.
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483 """
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484
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485 def <strong>set</strong>(self, itemid, **propvalues):
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486 """Modify a property on an existing item of this class.
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487
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488 'itemid' must be the id of an existing item of this class or an
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489 IndexError is raised. Each key in 'propvalues' must be the name
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490 of a property of this class or a KeyError is raised. All values
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491 in 'propvalues' must be acceptable types for their corresponding
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492 properties or a TypeError is raised. If the value of the key
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493 property is set, it must not collide with other key strings or a
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494 ValueError is raised. If the value of a Link or Multilink
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495 property contains an invalid item id, a ValueError is raised.
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496 """
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497
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498 def <strong>retire</strong>(self, itemid):
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499 """Retire an item.
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501 The properties on the item remain available from the get() method,
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502 and the item's id is never reused. Retired items are not returned
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503 by the find(), list(), or lookup() methods, and other items may
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504 reuse the values of their key properties.
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505 """
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506
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507 def <strong>history</strong>(self, itemid):
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508 """Retrieve the journal of edits on a particular item.
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510 'itemid' must be the id of an existing item of this class or an
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511 IndexError is raised.
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513 The returned list contains tuples of the form
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515 (date, tag, action, params)
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517 'date' is a Timestamp object specifying the time of the change and
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518 'tag' is the journaltag specified when the database was opened.
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519 'action' may be:
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521 'create' or 'set' -- 'params' is a dictionary of property values
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522 'link' or 'unlink' -- 'params' is (classname, itemid, propname)
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523 'retire' -- 'params' is None
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524 """
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525
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526 # Locating items:
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528 def <strong>setkey</strong>(self, propname):
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529 """Select a String property of this class to be the key property.
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533 all existing items must be unique or a ValueError is raised.
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534 """
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536 def <strong>getkey</strong>(self):
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537 """Return the name of the key property for this class or None."""
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539 def <strong>lookup</strong>(self, keyvalue):
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540 """Locate a particular item by its key property and return its id.
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542 If this class has no key property, a TypeError is raised. If the
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543 'keyvalue' matches one of the values for the key property among
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544 the items in this class, the matching item's id is returned;
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545 otherwise a KeyError is raised.
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546 """
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548 def <strong>find</strong>(self, propname, itemid):
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549 """Get the ids of items in this class which link to a given item.
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552 KeyError is raised. That property must be a Link or Multilink
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555 or an IndexError is raised.
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556 """
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558 def <strong>list</strong>(self):
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559 """Return a list of the ids of the active items in this class."""
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561 def <strong>count</strong>(self):
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562 """Get the number of items in this class.
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566 id of the next item to be created in this class.
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567 """
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568
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569 # Manipulating properties:
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570
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571 def <strong>getprops</strong>(self):
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572 """Return a dictionary mapping property names to property objects."""
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573
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574 def <strong>addprop</strong>(self, **properties):
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575 """Add properties to this class.
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577 The keyword arguments in 'properties' must map names to property
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578 objects, or a TypeError is raised. None of the keys in 'properties'
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581 """</small></pre></blockquote>
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582
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583 <h3>3.6. Application Example</h3>
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584
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585 <p>Here is an example of how the hyperdatabase module would work in practice.
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587 <blockquote><pre><small
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588 >&gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">import hyperdb</span>
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589 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db = hyperdb.Database("foo.db", "ping")</span>
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590 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db</span>
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591 <span class="output">&lt;hyperdb.Database "foo.db" opened by "ping"&gt;</span>
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592 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">hyperdb.Class(db, "status", name=hyperdb.String())</span>
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593 <span class="output">&lt;hyperdb.Class "status"&gt;</span>
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594 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">_.setkey("name")</span>
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595 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.status.create(name="unread")</span>
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596 <span class="output">1</span>
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597 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.status.create(name="in-progress")</span>
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598 <span class="output">2</span>
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599 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.status.create(name="testing")</span>
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600 <span class="output">3</span>
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601 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.status.create(name="resolved")</span>
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602 <span class="output">4</span>
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604 <span class="output">4</span>
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607 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.status.lookup("in-progress")</span>
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608 <span class="output">2</span>
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609 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.status.retire(3)</span>
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611 <span class="output">[1, 2, 4]</span>
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613 <span class="output">&lt;hyperdb.Class "issue"&gt;</span>
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614 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.create(title="spam", status=1)</span>
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618 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.create(title="ham", status=4)</span>
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619 <span class="output">3</span>
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620 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.create(title="arguments", status=2)</span>
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621 <span class="output">4</span>
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622 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.create(title="abuse", status=1)</span>
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623 <span class="output">5</span>
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624 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">hyperdb.Class(db, "user", username=hyperdb.Key(), password=hyperdb.String())</span>
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625 <span class="output">&lt;hyperdb.Class "user"&gt;</span>
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628 <span class="output"
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629 >{"title": &lt;hyperdb.String&gt;, "status": &lt;hyperdb.Link to "status"&gt;,
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630 "user": &lt;hyperdb.Link to "user"&gt;}</span>
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631 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.set(5, status=2)</span>
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632 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.get(5, "status")</span>
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633 <span class="output">2</span>
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634 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.status.get(2, "name")</span>
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635 <span class="output">"in-progress"</span>
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636 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.get(5, "title")</span>
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637 <span class="output">"abuse"</span>
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638 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.find("status", db.status.lookup("in-progress"))</span>
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639 <span class="output">[2, 4, 5]</span>
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640 &gt;&gt;&gt; <span class="input">db.issue.history(5)</span>
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642 >[(&lt;Date 2000-06-28.19:09:43&gt;, "ping", "create", {"title": "abuse", "status": 1}),
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643 (&lt;Date 2000-06-28.19:11:04&gt;, "ping", "set", {"status": 2})]</span>
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645 <span class="output"
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647 (&lt;Date 2000-06-28.19:11:04&gt;, "ping", "unlink", ("issue", 5, "status"))]</span>
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649 <span class="output"
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650 >[(&lt;Date 2000-06-28.19:11:04&gt;, "ping", "link", ("issue", 5, "status"))]</span>
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655 list to the new list.
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656 The journal records "unlink" events for all the items that appear
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658 and "link" events for
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659 all the items that appear in the new list but not in the old list.
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661 <p><hr>
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662 <h2>4. Roundup Database</h2>
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664 <p>The Roundup database layer is implemented on top of the
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665 hyperdatabase and mediates calls to the database.
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666 Some of the classes in the Roundup database are considered
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667 <em>item classes</em>.
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668 The Roundup database layer adds detectors and user items,
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669 and on items it provides mail spools, nosy lists, and superseders.
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671 <h3>4.1. Reserved Classes</h3>
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673 <p>Internal to this layer we reserve three special classes
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674 of items that are not items.
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676 <h4>4.1.1. Users</h4>
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678 <p>Users are stored in the hyperdatabase as items of
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679 class "user". The "user" class has the definition:
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681 <blockquote><pre><small
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683 password=hyperdb.String(),
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684 address=hyperdb.String())
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687 <h4>4.1.2. Messages</h4>
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690 The actual text content of the messages is stored in separate files.
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691 (There's no advantage to be gained by stuffing them into the
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692 hyperdatabase, and if messages are stored in ordinary text files,
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693 they can be grepped from the command line.) The text of a message is
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694 saved in a file named after the message item designator (e.g. "msg23")
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695 for the sake of the command interface (see below). Attachments are
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696 stored separately and associated with "file" items.
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697 The "msg" class has the definition:
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698
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699 <blockquote><pre><small
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700 >hyperdb.Class(db, "msg", author=hyperdb.Link("user"),
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701 recipients=hyperdb.Multilink("user"),
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702 date=hyperdb.Date(),
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703 summary=hyperdb.String(),
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704 files=hyperdb.Multilink("file"))</small
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705 ></pre></blockquote>
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706
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707 <p>The "author" property indicates the author of the message
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708 (a "user" item must exist in the hyperdatabase for any messages
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709 that are stored in the system).
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710 The "summary" property contains a summary of the message for display
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711 in a message index.
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712
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713 <h4>4.1.3. Files</h4>
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714
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715 <p>Submitted files are represented by hyperdatabase
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716 items of class "file". Like e-mail messages, the file content
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717 is stored in files outside the database,
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718 named after the file item designator (e.g. "file17").
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719 The "file" class has the definition:
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720
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721 <blockquote><pre><small
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722 >hyperdb.Class(db, "file", user=hyperdb.Link("user"),
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723 name=hyperdb.String(),
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724 type=hyperdb.String())</small></pre></blockquote>
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725
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726 <p>The "user" property indicates the user who submitted the
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727 file, the "name" property holds the original name of the file,
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728 and the "type" property holds the MIME type of the file as received.
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729
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730 <h3>4.2. Item Classes</h3>
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731
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732 <p>All items have the following standard properties:
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733
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734 <blockquote><pre><small
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735 >title=hyperdb.String()
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736 messages=hyperdb.Multilink("msg")
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737 files=hyperdb.Multilink("file")
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738 nosy=hyperdb.Multilink("user")
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739 superseder=hyperdb.Multilink("item")</small></pre></blockquote>
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740
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741 <p>Also, two Date properties named "creation" and "activity" are
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742 fabricated by the Roundup database layer. By "fabricated" we
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743 mean that no such properties are actually stored in the
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744 hyperdatabase, but when properties on items are requested, the
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745 "creation" and "activity" properties are made available.
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746 The value of the "creation" property is the date when an item was
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747 created, and the value of the "activity" property is the
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748 date when any property on the item was last edited (equivalently,
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749 these are the dates on the first and last records in the item's journal).
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750
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751 <h3>4.3. Interface Specification</h3>
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752
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753 <p>The interface to a Roundup database delegates most method
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754 calls to the hyperdatabase, except for the following
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755 changes and additional methods.
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756
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757 <blockquote><pre><small
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758 >class <strong>Database</strong>:
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759 # Overridden methods:
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760
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761 def <strong>__init__</strong>(self, storagelocator, journaltag):
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762 """When the Roundup database is opened by a particular user,
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763 the 'journaltag' is the id of the user's "user" item."""
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764
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765 def <strong>getclass</strong>(self, classname):
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766 """This method now returns an instance of either Class or
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767 ItemClass depending on whether an item class is specified."""
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768
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769 # New methods:
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770
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771 def <strong>getuid</strong>(self):
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772 """Return the id of the "user" item associated with the user
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773 that owns this connection to the hyperdatabase."""
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774
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775 class <strong>Class</strong>:
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776 # Overridden methods:
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777
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778 def <strong>create</strong>(self, **propvalues):
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779 def <strong>set</strong>(self, **propvalues):
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780 def <strong>retire</strong>(self, itemid):
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781 """These operations trigger detectors and can be vetoed. Attempts
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782 to modify the "creation" or "activity" properties cause a KeyError.
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783 """
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784
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785 # New methods:
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786
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787 def <strong>audit</strong>(self, event, detector):
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788 def <strong>react</strong>(self, event, detector):
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789 """Register a detector (see below for more details)."""
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790
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791 class <strong>ItemClass</strong>(Class):
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792 # Overridden methods:
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793
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794 def <strong>__init__</strong>(self, db, classname, **properties):
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795 """The newly-created class automatically includes the "messages",
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796 "files", "nosy", and "superseder" properties. If the 'properties'
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797 dictionary attempts to specify any of these properties or a
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798 "creation" or "activity" property, a ValueError is raised."""
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799
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800 def <strong>get</strong>(self, itemid, propname):
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801 def <strong>getprops</strong>(self):
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802 """In addition to the actual properties on the item, these
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803 methods provide the "creation" and "activity" properties."""
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804
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805 # New methods:
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806
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807 def <strong>addmessage</strong>(self, itemid, summary, text):
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808 """Add a message to an item's mail spool.
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809
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810 A new "msg" item is constructed using the current date, the
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811 user that owns the database connection as the author, and
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812 the specified summary text. The "files" and "recipients"
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813 fields are left empty. The given text is saved as the body
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814 of the message and the item is appended to the "messages"
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815 field of the specified item.
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816 """
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817
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818 def <strong>nosymessage</strong>(self, itemid, msgid):
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819 """Send a message to the members of an item's nosy list.
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820
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821 The message is sent only to users on the nosy list who are not
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822 already on the "recipients" list for the message. These users
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823 are then added to the message's "recipients" list.
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824 """
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825 </small></pre></blockquote>
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826
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827 <h3>4.4. Default Schema</h3>
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828
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829 <p>The default schema included with Roundup turns it into a
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830 typical software bug tracker. The database is set up like this:
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831
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832 <blockquote><pre><small
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833 >pri = Class(db, "priority", name=hyperdb.String(), order=hyperdb.String())
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834 pri.setkey("name")
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835 pri.create(name="critical", order="1")
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836 pri.create(name="urgent", order="2")
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837 pri.create(name="bug", order="3")
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838 pri.create(name="feature", order="4")
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839 pri.create(name="wish", order="5")
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840
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841 stat = Class(db, "status", name=hyperdb.String(), order=hyperdb.String())
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842 stat.setkey("name")
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843 stat.create(name="unread", order="1")
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844 stat.create(name="deferred", order="2")
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845 stat.create(name="chatting", order="3")
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846 stat.create(name="need-eg", order="4")
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847 stat.create(name="in-progress", order="5")
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848 stat.create(name="testing", order="6")
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849 stat.create(name="done-cbb", order="7")
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850 stat.create(name="resolved", order="8")
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851
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852 Class(db, "keyword", name=hyperdb.String())
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853
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854 Class(db, "issue", fixer=hyperdb.Multilink("user"),
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855 topic=hyperdb.Multilink("keyword"),
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856 priority=hyperdb.Link("priority"),
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857 status=hyperdb.Link("status"))
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858 </small></pre></blockquote>
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859
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860 <p>(The "order" property hasn't been explained yet. It
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861 gets used by the Web user interface for sorting.)
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862
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863 <p>The above isn't as pretty-looking as the schema specification
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864 in the first-stage submission, but it could be made just as easy
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865 with the addition of a convenience function like <tt>Choice</tt>
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866 for setting up the "priority" and "status" classes:
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867
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868 <blockquote><pre><small
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869 >def Choice(name, *options):
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870 cl = Class(db, name, name=hyperdb.String(), order=hyperdb.String())
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871 for i in range(len(options)):
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872 cl.create(name=option[i], order=i)
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873 return hyperdb.Link(name)
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874 </small></pre></blockquote>
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875
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876 <p><hr>
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877 <h2>5. Detector Interface</h2>
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878
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879 <p>Detectors are Python functions that are triggered on certain
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880 kinds of events. The definitions of the
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881 functions live in Python modules placed in a directory set aside
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882 for this purpose. Importing the Roundup database module also
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883 imports all the modules in this directory, and the <tt>init()</tt>
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884 function of each module is called when a database is opened to
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885 provide it a chance to register its detectors.
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886
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887 <p>There are two kinds of detectors:
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888
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889 <ul>
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890 <li>an <em>auditor</em> is triggered just before modifying an item
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891 <li>a <em>reactor</em> is triggered just after an item has been modified
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892 </ul>
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893
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894 <p>When the Roundup database is about to perform a
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895 <tt>create()</tt>, <tt>set()</tt>, or <tt>retire()</tt>
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896 operation, it first calls any auditors that
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897 have been registered for that operation on that class.
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898 Any auditor may raise a <tt>Reject</tt> exception
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899 to abort the operation.
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900
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901 <p>If none of the auditors raises an exception, the database
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902 proceeds to carry out the operation. After it's done, it
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903 then calls all of the reactors that have been registered
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904 for the operation.
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905
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906 <h3>5.1. Interface Specification</h3>
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907
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908 <p>The <tt>audit()</tt> and <tt>react()</tt> methods
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909 register detectors on a given class of items.
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910
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911 <blockquote><pre><small
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912 >class Class:
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913 def <strong>audit</strong>(self, event, detector):
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914 """Register an auditor on this class.
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915
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916 'event' should be one of "create", "set", or "retire".
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917 'detector' should be a function accepting four arguments.
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918 """
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919
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920 def <strong>react</strong>(self, event, detector):
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921 """Register a reactor on this class.
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922
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923 'event' should be one of "create", "set", or "retire".
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924 'detector' should be a function accepting four arguments.
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925 """
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926 </small></pre></blockquote>
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927
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928 <p>Auditors are called with the arguments:
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929
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930 <blockquote><pre><small
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931 >audit(db, cl, itemid, newdata)</small></pre></blockquote>
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932
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933 where <tt>db</tt> is the database, <tt>cl</tt> is an
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934 instance of Class or ItemClass within the database, and <tt>newdata</tt>
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935 is a dictionary mapping property names to values.
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936
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937 For a <tt>create()</tt>
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938 operation, the <tt>itemid</tt> argument is <tt>None</tt> and <tt>newdata</tt>
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939 contains all of the initial property values with which the item
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940 is about to be created.
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941
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942 For a <tt>set()</tt> operation, <tt>newdata</tt>
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943 contains only the names and values of properties that are about
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944 to be changed.
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945
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946 For a <tt>retire()</tt> operation, <tt>newdata</tt> is <tt>None</tt>.
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947
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948 <p>Reactors are called with the arguments:
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949
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950 <blockquote><pre><small
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951 >react(db, cl, itemid, olddata)</small></pre></blockquote>
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952
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953 where <tt>db</tt> is the database, <tt>cl</tt> is an
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954 instance of Class or ItemClass within the database, and <tt>olddata</tt>
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955 is a dictionary mapping property names to values.
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956
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957 For a <tt>create()</tt>
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958 operation, the <tt>itemid</tt> argument is the id of the
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959 newly-created item and <tt>olddata</tt> is None.
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960
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961 For a <tt>set()</tt> operation, <tt>olddata</tt>
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962 contains the names and previous values of properties that were changed.
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963
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964 For a <tt>retire()</tt> operation, <tt>itemid</tt> is the
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965 id of the retired item and <tt>olddata</tt> is <tt>None</tt>.
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966
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967 <h3>5.2. Detector Example</h3>
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968
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969 <p>Here is an example of detectors written for a hypothetical
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970 project-management application, where users can signal approval
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971 of a project by adding themselves to an "approvals" list, and
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972 a project proceeds when it has three approvals.
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973
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974 <blockquote><pre><small
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975 ># Permit users only to add themselves to the "approvals" list.
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977 def check_approvals(db, cl, id, newdata):
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978 if newdata.has_key("approvals"):
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979 if cl.get(id, "status") == db.status.lookup("approved"):
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980 raise Reject, "You can't modify the approvals list " \
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981 "for a project that has already been approved."
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982 old = cl.get(id, "approvals")
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983 new = newdata["approvals"]
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984 for uid in old:
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985 if uid not in new and uid != db.getuid():
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986 raise Reject, "You can't remove other users from the "
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987 "approvals list; you can only remove yourself."
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988 for uid in new:
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989 if uid not in old and uid != db.getuid():
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990 raise Reject, "You can't add other users to the approvals "
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991 "list; you can only add yourself."
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992
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993 # When three people have approved a project, change its
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994 # status from "pending" to "approved".
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995
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996 def approve_project(db, cl, id, olddata):
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997 if olddata.has_key("approvals") and len(cl.get(id, "approvals")) == 3:
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998 if cl.get(id, "status") == db.status.lookup("pending"):
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999 cl.set(id, status=db.status.lookup("approved"))
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1000
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1001 def init(db):
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1002 db.project.audit("set", check_approval)
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1003 db.project.react("set", approve_project)</small
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1004 ></pre></blockquote>
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1005
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1006 <p>Here is another example of a detector that can allow or prevent
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1007 the creation of new items. In this scenario, patches for a software
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1008 project are submitted by sending in e-mail with an attached file,
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1009 and we want to ensure that there are <tt>text/plain</tt> attachments on
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1010 the message. The maintainer of the package can then apply the
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1011 patch by setting its status to "applied".
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1012
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1013 <blockquote><pre><small
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1014 ># Only accept attempts to create new patches that come with patch files.
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1015
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1016 def check_new_patch(db, cl, id, newdata):
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1017 if not newdata["files"]:
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1018 raise Reject, "You can't submit a new patch without " \
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1019 "attaching a patch file."
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1020 for fileid in newdata["files"]:
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1021 if db.file.get(fileid, "type") != "text/plain":
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1022 raise Reject, "Submitted patch files must be text/plain."
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1023
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1024 # When the status is changed from "approved" to "applied", apply the patch.
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1025
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1026 def apply_patch(db, cl, id, olddata):
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1027 if cl.get(id, "status") == db.status.lookup("applied") and \
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1028 olddata["status"] == db.status.lookup("approved"):
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1029 # ...apply the patch...
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1030
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1031 def init(db):
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1032 db.patch.audit("create", check_new_patch)
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1033 db.patch.react("set", apply_patch)</small
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1034 ></pre></blockquote>
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1035
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1036 <p><hr>
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1037 <h2>6. Command Interface</h2>
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1038
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1039 <p>The command interface is a very simple and minimal interface,
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1040 intended only for quick searches and checks from the shell prompt.
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1041 (Anything more interesting can simply be written in Python using
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1042 the Roundup database module.)
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1043
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1044 <h3>6.1. Interface Specification</h3>
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1045
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1046 <p>A single command, <tt>roundup</tt>, provides basic access to
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1047 the hyperdatabase from the command line.
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1048
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1049 <ul>
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1050 <li><tt>roundup&nbsp;get&nbsp;</tt>[<tt>-list</tt>]<tt>&nbsp;</tt
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1051 ><em>designator</em>[<tt>,</tt
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1052 ><em>designator</em><tt>,</tt>...]<tt>&nbsp;</tt><em>propname</em>
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1053 <li><tt>roundup&nbsp;set&nbsp;</tt><em>designator</em>[<tt>,</tt
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1054 ><em>designator</em><tt>,</tt>...]<tt>&nbsp;</tt><em>propname</em
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1055 ><tt>=</tt><em>value</em> ...
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1056 <li><tt>roundup&nbsp;find&nbsp;</tt>[<tt>-list</tt>]<tt>&nbsp;</tt
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1057 ><em>classname</em><tt>&nbsp;</tt><em>propname</em>=<em>value</em> ...
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1058 </ul>
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1059
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1060 <p>Property values are represented as strings in command arguments
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1061 and in the printed results:
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1062
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1063 <ul>
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1064 <li>Strings are, well, strings.
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1065
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1066 <li>Date values are printed in the full date format in the local
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1067 time zone, and accepted in the full format or any of the partial
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1068 formats explained above.
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1069
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1070 <li>Link values are printed as item designators. When given as
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1071 an argument, item designators and key strings are both accepted.
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1072
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1073 <li>Multilink values are printed as lists of item designators
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1074 joined by commas. When given as an argument, item designators
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1075 and key strings are both accepted; an empty string, a single item,
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1076 or a list of items joined by commas is accepted.
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1077 </ul>
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1078
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1079 <p>When multiple items are specified to the
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1080 <tt>roundup&nbsp;get</tt> or <tt>roundup&nbsp;set</tt>
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1081 commands, the specified properties are retrieved or set
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1082 on all the listed items.
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1083
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1084 <p>When multiple results are returned by the <tt>roundup&nbsp;get</tt>
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1085 or <tt>roundup&nbsp;find</tt> commands, they are printed one per
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1086 line (default) or joined by commas (with the <tt>-list</tt>) option.
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1087
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1088 <h3>6.2. Usage Example</h3>
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1089
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1090 <p>To find all messages regarding in-progress issues that
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1091 contain the word "spam", for example, you could execute the
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1092 following command from the directory where the database
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1093 dumps its files:
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1094
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1095 <blockquote><pre><small
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1096 >shell% <span class="input">for issue in `roundup find issue status=in-progress`; do</span>
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1097 &gt; <span class="input">grep -l spam `roundup get $issue messages`</span>
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1098 &gt; <span class="input">done</span>
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1099 <span class="output">msg23
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1100 msg49
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1101 msg50
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1102 msg61</span>
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1103 shell%</small></pre></blockquote>
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1104
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1105 <p>Or, using the <tt>-list</tt> option, this can be written as a single command:
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1106
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1107 <blockquote><pre><small
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1108 >shell% <span class="input">grep -l spam `roundup get \
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1109 \`roundup find -list issue status=in-progress\` messages`</span>
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1110 <span class="output">msg23
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1111 msg49
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1112 msg50
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1113 msg61</span>
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1114 shell%</small></pre></blockquote>
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1115
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1116 <p><hr>
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1117 <h2>7. E-mail User Interface</h2>
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1118
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1119 <p>The Roundup system must be assigned an e-mail address
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1120 at which to receive mail. Messages should be piped to
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1121 the Roundup mail-handling script by the mail delivery
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1122 system (e.g. using an alias beginning with "|" for sendmail).
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1123
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1124 <h3>7.1. Message Processing</h3>
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1125
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1126 <p>Incoming messages are examined for multiple parts.
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1127 In a <tt>multipart/mixed</tt> message or part, each subpart is
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1128 extracted and examined. In a <tt>multipart/alternative</tt>
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1129 message or part, we look for a <tt>text/plain</tt> subpart and
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1130 ignore the other parts. The <tt>text/plain</tt> subparts are
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1131 assembled to form the textual body of the message, to
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1132 be stored in the file associated with a "msg" class item.
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1133 Any parts of other types are each stored in separate
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1134 files and given "file" class items that are linked to
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1135 the "msg" item.
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1136
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1137 <p>The "summary" property on message items is taken from
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1138 the first non-quoting section in the message body.
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1139 The message body is divided into sections by blank lines.
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1140 Sections where the second and all subsequent lines begin
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1141 with a "&gt;" or "|" character are considered "quoting
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1142 sections". The first line of the first non-quoting
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1143 section becomes the summary of the message.
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1144
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1145 <p>All of the addresses in the To: and Cc: headers of the
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1146 incoming message are looked up among the user items, and
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1147 the corresponding users are placed in the "recipients"
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1148 property on the new "msg" item. The address in the From:
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1149 header similarly determines the "author" property of the
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1150 new "msg" item.
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1151 The default handling for
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1152 addresses that don't have corresponding users is to create
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1153 new users with no passwords and a username equal to the
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1154 address. (The web interface does not permit logins for
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1155 users with no passwords.) If we prefer to reject mail from
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1156 outside sources, we can simply register an auditor on the
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1157 "user" class that prevents the creation of user items with
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1158 no passwords.
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1159
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1160 <p>The subject line of the incoming message is examined to
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1161 determine whether the message is an attempt to create a new
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1162 item or to discuss an existing item. A designator enclosed
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1163 in square brackets is sought as the first thing on the
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1164 subject line (after skipping any "Fwd:" or "Re:" prefixes).
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1165
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1166 <p>If an item designator (class name and id number) is found
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1167 there, the newly created "msg" item is added to the "messages"
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1168 property for that item, and any new "file" items are added to
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1169 the "files" property for the item.
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1170
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1171 <p>If just an item class name is found there, we attempt to
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1172 create a new item of that class with its "messages" property
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1173 initialized to contain the new "msg" item and its "files"
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1174 property initialized to contain any new "file" items.
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1175
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1176 <p>Both cases may trigger detectors (in the first case we
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1177 are calling the <tt>set()</tt> method to add the message to the
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1178 item's spool; in the second case we are calling the
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1179 <tt>create()</tt> method to create a new item). If an auditor
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1180 raises an exception, the original message is bounced back to
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1181 the sender with the explanatory message given in the exception.
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1182
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1183 <h3>7.2. Nosy Lists</h3>
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1184
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1185 <p>A standard detector is provided that watches for additions
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1186 to the "messages" property. When a new message is added, the
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1187 detector sends it to all the users on the "nosy" list for the
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1188 item that are not already on the "recipients" list of the
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1189 message. Those users are then appended to the "recipients"
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1190 property on the message, so multiple copies of a message
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1191 are never sent to the same user. The journal recorded by
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1192 the hyperdatabase on the "recipients" property then provides
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1193 a log of when the message was sent to whom.
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1194
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1195 <h3>7.3. Setting Properties</h3>
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1196
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1197 <p>The e-mail interface also provides a simple way to set
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1198 properties on items. At the end of the subject line,
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1199 <em>propname</em><tt>=</tt><em>value</em> pairs can be
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1200 specified in square brackets, using the same conventions
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1201 as for the <tt>roundup&nbsp;set</tt> shell command.
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1202
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1203 <p><hr>
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1204 <h2>8. Web User Interface</h2>
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1205
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1206 <p>The web interface is provided by a CGI script that can be
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1207 run under any web server. A simple web server can easily be
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1208 built on the standard <tt>CGIHTTPServer</tt> module, and
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1209 should also be included in the distribution for quick
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1210 out-of-the-box deployment.
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1211
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1212 <p>The user interface is constructed from a number of template
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1213 files containing mostly HTML. Among the HTML tags in templates
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1214 are interspersed some nonstandard tags, which we use as
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1215 placeholders to be replaced by properties and their values.
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1216
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1217 <h3>8.1. Views and View Specifiers</h3>
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1218
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1219 <p>There are two main kinds of views: index views and item views.
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1220 An index view displays a list of items of a particular class,
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1221 optionally sorted and filtered as requested. An item view
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1222 presents the properties of a particular item for editing
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1223 and displays the message spool for the item.
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1224
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1225 <p>A <em>view specifier</em> is a string that specifies
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1226 all the options needed to construct a particular view.
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1227 It goes after the URL to the Roundup CGI script or the
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1228 web server to form the complete URL to a view. When the
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1229 result of selecting a link or submitting a form takes
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1230 the user to a new view, the Web browser should be redirected
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1231 to a canonical location containing a complete view specifier
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1232 so that the view can be bookmarked.
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1233
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1234 <h3>8.2. Displaying Properties</h3>
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1235
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1236 <p>Properties appear in the user interface in three contexts:
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1237 in indices, in editors, and as filters. For each type of
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1238 property, there are several display possibilities. For example,
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1239 in an index view, a string property may just be printed as
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1240 a plain string, but in an editor view, that property should
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1241 be displayed in an editable field.
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1242
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1243 <p>The display of a property is handled by functions in
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1244 a <tt>displayers</tt> module. Each function accepts at
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1245 least three standard arguments -- the database, class name,
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1246 and item id -- and returns a chunk of HTML.
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1247
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1248 <p>Displayer functions are triggered by <tt>&lt;display&gt;</tt>
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1249 tags in templates. The <tt>call</tt> attribute of the tag
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1250 provides a Python expression for calling the displayer
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1251 function. The three standard arguments are inserted in
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1252 front of the arguments given. For example, the occurrence of
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1253
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1254 <blockquote><pre><small
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1255 > &lt;display call="plain('status', max=30)"&gt;
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1256 </small></pre></blockquote>
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1257
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1258 in a template triggers a call to
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1259
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1260 <blockquote><pre><small
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1261 > plain(db, "issue", 13, "status", max=30)
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1262 </small></pre></blockquote>
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1263
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1264 when displaying item 13 in the "issue" class. The displayer
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1265 functions can accept extra arguments to further specify
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1266 details about the widgets that should be generated. By defining new
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1267 displayer functions, the user interface can be highly customized.
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1268
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1269 <p>Some of the standard displayer functions include:
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1270
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1271 <ul>
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1272 <li><strong>plain</strong>: display a String property directly;
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1273 display a Date property in a specified time zone with an option
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1274 to omit the time from the date stamp; for a Link or Multilink
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1275 property, display the key strings of the linked items (or the
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1276 ids if the linked class has no key property)
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1277
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1278 <li><strong>field</strong>: display a property like the
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1279 <strong>plain</strong> displayer above, but in a text field
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1280 to be edited
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1281
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1282 <li><strong>menu</strong>: for a Link property, display
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1283 a menu of the available choices
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1284
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1285 <li><strong>link</strong>: for a Link or Multilink property,
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1286 display the names of the linked items, hyperlinked to the
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1287 item views on those items
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1288
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1289 <li><strong>count</strong>: for a Multilink property, display
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1290 a count of the number of links in the list
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1291
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1292 <li><strong>reldate</strong>: display a Date property in terms
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1293 of an interval relative to the current date (e.g. "+ 3w", "- 2d").
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1294
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1295 <li><strong>download</strong>: show a Link("file") or Multilink("file")
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1296 property using links that allow you to download files
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1297
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1298 <li><strong>checklist</strong>: for a Link or Multilink property,
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1299 display checkboxes for the available choices to permit filtering
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1300 </ul>
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1301
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1302 <h3>8.3. Index Views</h3>
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1303
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1304 <p>An index view contains two sections: a filter section
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1305 and an index section.
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1306 The filter section provides some widgets for selecting
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1307 which items appear in the index. The index section is
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1308 a table of items.
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1309
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1310 <h4>8.3.1. Index View Specifiers</h4>
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1311
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1312 <p>An index view specifier looks like this (whitespace
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1313 has been added for clarity):
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1314
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1315 <blockquote><pre><small
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1316 >/issue?status=unread,in-progress,resolved&amp;
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1317 topic=security,ui&amp;
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1318 :group=+priority&amp;
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1319 :sort=-activity&amp;
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1320 :filters=status,topic&amp;
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1321 :columns=title,status,fixer
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1322 </small></pre></blockquote>
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1323
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1324 <p>The index view is determined by two parts of the
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1325 specifier: the layout part and the filter part.
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1326 The layout part consists of the query parameters that
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1327 begin with colons, and it determines the way that the
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1328 properties of selected items are displayed.
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1329 The filter part consists of all the other query parameters,
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1330 and it determines the criteria by which items
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1331 are selected for display.
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1332
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1333 <p>The filter part is interactively manipulated with
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1334 the form widgets displayed in the filter section. The
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1335 layout part is interactively manipulated by clicking
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1336 on the column headings in the table.
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1337
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1338 <p>The filter part selects the <em>union</em> of the
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1339 sets of items with values matching any specified Link
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1340 properties and the <em>intersection</em> of the sets
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1341 of items with values matching any specified Multilink
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1342 properties.
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1343
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1344 <p>The example specifies an index of "issue" items.
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1345 Only items with a "status" of <em>either</em>
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1346 "unread" or "in-progres" or "resolved" are displayed,
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1347 and only items with "topic" values including <em>both</em>
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1348 "security" <em>and</em> "ui" are displayed. The items
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1349 are grouped by priority, arranged in ascending order;
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1350 and within groups, sorted by activity, arranged in
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1351 descending order. The filter section shows filters
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1352 for the "status" and "topic" properties, and the
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1353 table includes columns for the "title", "status", and
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1354 "fixer" properties.
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1355
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1356 <p>Associated with each item class is a default
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1357 layout specifier. The layout specifier in the above
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1358 example is the default layout to be provided with
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1359 the default bug-tracker schema described above in
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1360 section 4.4.
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1361
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1362 <h4>8.3.2. Filter Section</h4>
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1363
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1364 <p>The template for a filter section provides the
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1365 filtering widgets at the top of the index view.
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1366 Fragments enclosed in <tt>&lt;property&gt;</tt>...<tt>&lt;/property&gt;</tt>
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1367 tags are included or omitted depending on whether the
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1368 view specifier requests a filter for a particular property.
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1369
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1370 <p>Here's a simple example of a filter template.
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1371
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1372 <blockquote><pre><small
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1373 >&lt;property name=status&gt;
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1374 &lt;display call="checklist('status')"&gt;
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1375 &lt;/property&gt;
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1376 &lt;br&gt;
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1377 &lt;property name=priority&gt;
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1378 &lt;display call="checklist('priority')"&gt;
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1379 &lt;/property&gt;
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1380 &lt;br&gt;
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1381 &lt;property name=fixer&gt;
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1382 &lt;display call="menu('fixer')"&gt;
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1383 &lt;/property&gt;</small></pre></blockquote>
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1384
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1385 <h4>8.3.3. Index Section</h4>
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1386
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1387 <p>The template for an index section describes one row of
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1388 the index table.
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1389 Fragments enclosed in <tt>&lt;property&gt;</tt>...<tt>&lt;/property&gt;</tt>
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1390 tags are included or omitted depending on whether the
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1391 view specifier requests a column for a particular property.
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1392 The table cells should contain <tt>&lt;display&gt;</tt> tags
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1393 to display the values of the item's properties.
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1394
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1395 <p>Here's a simple example of an index template.
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1396
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1397 <blockquote><pre><small
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1398 >&lt;tr&gt;
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1399 &lt;property name=title&gt;
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1400 &lt;td&gt;&lt;display call="plain('title', max=50)"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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1401 &lt;/property&gt;
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1402 &lt;property name=status&gt;
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1403 &lt;td&gt;&lt;display call="plain('status')"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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1404 &lt;/property&gt;
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1405 &lt;property name=fixer&gt;
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1406 &lt;td&gt;&lt;display call="plain('fixer')"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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1407 &lt;/property&gt;
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1408 &lt;/tr&gt;</small></pre></blockquote>
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1409
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1410 <h4>8.3.4. Sorting</h4>
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1412 <p>String and Date values are sorted in the natural way.
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1413 Link properties are sorted according to the value of the
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1414 "order" property on the linked items if it is present; or
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1415 otherwise on the key string of the linked items; or
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1416 finally on the item ids. Multilink properties are
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1417 sorted according to how many links are present.
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1418
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1419 <h3>8.4. Item Views</h3>
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1420
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1421 <p>An item view contains an editor section and a spool section.
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1422 At the top of an item view, links to superseding and superseded
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1423 items are always displayed.
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1424
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1425 <h4>8.4.1. Item View Specifiers</h4>
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1426
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1427 <p>An item view specifier is simply the item's designator:
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1428
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1429 <blockquote><pre><small
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1430 >/patch23
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1431 </small></pre></blockquote>
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1432
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1433 <h4>8.4.2. Editor Section</h4>
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1434
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1435 <p>The editor section is generated from a template
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1436 containing <tt>&lt;display&gt;</tt> tags to insert
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1437 the appropriate widgets for editing properties.
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1438
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1439 <p>Here's an example of a basic editor template.
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1440
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1441 <blockquote><pre><small
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1442 >&lt;table&gt;
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1443 &lt;tr&gt;
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1444 &lt;td colspan=2&gt;
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1445 &lt;display call="field('title', size=60)"&gt;
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1446 &lt;/td&gt;
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1447 &lt;/tr&gt;
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1448 &lt;tr&gt;
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1449 &lt;td&gt;
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1450 &lt;display call="field('fixer', size=30)"&gt;
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1451 &lt;/td&gt;
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1452 &lt;td&gt;
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1453 &lt;display call="menu('status')&gt;
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1454 &lt;/td&gt;
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1455 &lt;/tr&gt;
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1456 &lt;tr&gt;
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1457 &lt;td&gt;
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1458 &lt;display call="field('nosy', size=30)"&gt;
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1459 &lt;/td&gt;
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1460 &lt;td&gt;
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1461 &lt;display call="menu('priority')&gt;
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1462 &lt;/td&gt;
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1463 &lt;/tr&gt;
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1464 &lt;tr&gt;
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1465 &lt;td colspan=2&gt;
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1466 &lt;display call="note()"&gt;
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1467 &lt;/td&gt;
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1468 &lt;/tr&gt;
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1469 &lt;/table&gt;
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1470 </small></pre></blockquote>
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1471
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1472 <p>As shown in the example, the editor template can also
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1473 request the display of a "note" field, which is a
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1474 text area for entering a note to go along with a change.
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1475
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1476 <p>When a change is submitted, the system automatically
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1477 generates a message describing the changed properties.
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1478 The message displays all of the property values on the
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1479 item and indicates which ones have changed.
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1480 An example of such a message might be this:
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1481
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1482 <blockquote><pre><small
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1483 >title: Polly Parrot is dead
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1484 priority: critical
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1485 status: unread -&gt; in-progress
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1486 fixer: (none)
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1487 keywords: parrot,plumage,perch,nailed,dead
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1488 </small></pre></blockquote>
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1489
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1490 <p>If a note is given in the "note" field, the note is
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1491 appended to the description. The message is then added
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1492 to the item's message spool (thus triggering the standard
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1493 detector to react by sending out this message to the nosy list).
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1494
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1495 <h4>8.4.3. Spool Section</h4>
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1496
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1497 <p>The spool section lists messages in the item's "messages"
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1498 property. The index of messages displays the "date", "author",
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1499 and "summary" properties on the message items, and selecting a
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1500 message takes you to its content.
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1501
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1502 <p><hr>
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1503 <h2>9. Deployment Scenarios</h2>
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1504
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1505 <p>The design described above should be general enough
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1506 to permit the use of Roundup for bug tracking, managing
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1507 projects, managing patches, or holding discussions. By
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1508 using items of multiple types, one could deploy a system
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1509 that maintains requirement specifications, catalogs bugs,
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1510 and manages submitted patches, where patches could be
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1511 linked to the bugs and requirements they address.
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1512
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1513 <p><hr>
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1514 <h2>10. Acknowledgements</h2>
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1515
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1516 <p>My thanks are due to Christy Heyl for
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1517 reviewing and contributing suggestions to this paper
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1518 and motivating me to get it done, and to
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1519 Jesse Vincent, Mark Miller, Christopher Simons,
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1520 Jeff Dunmall, Wayne Gramlich, and Dean Tribble for
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1521 their assistance with the first-round submission.
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1522 </td>
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1523 </tr>
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1524 </table>
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1525
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1526 <p>
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1527
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1528 <center>
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1529 <table>
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1530 <tr>
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1531 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/index.html"><b>[Home]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1532 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/faq.html"><b>[FAQ]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1533 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/license.html"><b>[License]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1534 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/contest-rules.html"><b>[Rules]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1535 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/sc_config/"><b>[Configure]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1536 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/sc_build/"><b>[Build]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1537 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/sc_test/"><b>[Test]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1538 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/sc_track/"><b>[Track]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1539 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/biblio.html"><b>[Resources]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1540 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/lists/"><b>[Archives]</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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1541 </tr>
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1542 </table>
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1543 </center>
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1545 <p><hr>
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1546 <center>Last modified 2001/04/06 11:50:59.9063 US/Mountain</center>
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1547 </BODY>
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1548 </HTML>
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