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author Alexander Smishlajev <a1s@users.sourceforge.net>
date Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:19:49 +0000
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1 ========================================================
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2 Roundup - An Issue-Tracking System for Knowledge Workers
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3 ========================================================
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5 :Authors: Ka-Ping Yee (original__), Richard Jones (implementation)
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7 __ spec.html
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9 .. contents::
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11 Introduction
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14 This document presents a description of the components of the Roundup
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15 system and specifies their interfaces and behaviour in sufficient detail
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16 to guide an implementation. For the philosophy and rationale behind the
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17 Roundup design, see the first-round Software Carpentry submission for
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18 Roundup. This document fleshes out that design as well as specifying
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19 interfaces so that the components can be developed separately.
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22 The Layer Cake
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23 -----------------
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25 Lots of software design documents come with a picture of a cake.
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26 Everybody seems to like them. I also like cakes (i think they are
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27 tasty). So I, too, shall include a picture of a cake here::
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29 ________________________________________________________________
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30 | E-mail Client | Web Browser | Detector Scripts | Shell |
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31 |---------------+---------------+--------------------+-----------|
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32 | E-mail User | Web User | Detector | Command |
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33 |----------------------------------------------------------------|
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34 | Roundup Database Layer |
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35 |----------------------------------------------------------------|
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36 | Hyperdatabase Layer |
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37 |----------------------------------------------------------------|
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38 | Storage Layer |
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39 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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41 The colourful parts of the cake are part of our system; the faint grey
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42 parts of the cake are external components.
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44 I will now proceed to forgo all table manners and eat from the bottom of
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45 the cake to the top. You may want to stand back a bit so you don't get
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46 covered in crumbs.
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49 Hyperdatabase
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50 -------------
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52 The lowest-level component to be implemented is the hyperdatabase. The
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53 hyperdatabase is intended to be a flexible data store that can hold
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54 configurable data in records which we call items.
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56 The hyperdatabase is implemented on top of the storage layer, an
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57 external module for storing its data. The storage layer could be a
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58 third-party RDBMS; for a "batteries-included" distribution, implementing
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59 the hyperdatabase on the standard bsddb module is suggested.
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61 Dates and Date Arithmetic
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62 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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64 Before we get into the hyperdatabase itself, we need a way of handling
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65 dates. The hyperdatabase module provides Timestamp objects for
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66 representing date-and-time stamps and Interval objects for representing
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67 date-and-time intervals.
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69 As strings, date-and-time stamps are specified with the date in
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70 international standard format (``yyyy-mm-dd``) joined to the time
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75 the full date format with the time always given in GMT. The full date
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78 For user input, some partial forms are also permitted: the whole time or
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79 just the seconds may be omitted; and the whole date may be omitted or
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80 just the year may be omitted. If the time is given, the time is
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81 interpreted in the user's local time zone. The Date constructor takes
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82 care of these conversions. In the following examples, suppose that
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83 ``yyyy`` is the current year, ``mm`` is the current month, and ``dd`` is
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85 Standard Time.
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87 - "2000-04-17" means <Date 2000-04-17.00:00:00>
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88 - "01-25" means <Date yyyy-01-25.00:00:00>
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90 - "08-13.22:13" means <Date yyyy-08-14.03:13:00>
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92 - "14:25" means
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93 - <Date yyyy-mm-dd.19:25:00>
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94 - "8:47:11" means
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95 - <Date yyyy-mm-dd.13:47:11>
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96 - the special date "." means "right now"
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99 Date intervals are specified using the suffixes "y", "m", and "d". The
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102 may not).
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104 - "3y" means three years
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105 - "2y 1m" means two years and one month
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106 - "1m 25d" means one month and 25 days
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107 - "2w 3d" means two weeks and three days
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108 - "1d 2:50" means one day, two hours, and 50 minutes
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109 - "14:00" means 14 hours
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110 - "0:04:33" means four minutes and 33 seconds
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113 The Date class should understand simple date expressions of the form
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114 *stamp* ``+`` *interval* and *stamp* ``-`` *interval*. When adding or
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115 subtracting intervals involving months or years, the components are
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116 handled separately. For example, when evaluating "``2000-06-25 + 1m
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117 10d``", we first add one month to get 2000-07-25, then add 10 days to
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118 get 2000-08-04 (rather than trying to decide whether 1m 10d means 38 or
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119 40 or 41 days).
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121 Here is an outline of the Date and Interval classes::
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123 class Date:
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124 def __init__(self, spec, offset):
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125 """Construct a date given a specification and a time zone
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126 offset.
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127
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128 'spec' is a full date or a partial form, with an optional
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129 added or subtracted interval. 'offset' is the local time
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130 zone offset from GMT in hours.
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131 """
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133 def __add__(self, interval):
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134 """Add an interval to this date to produce another date."""
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136 def __sub__(self, interval):
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137 """Subtract an interval from this date to produce another
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138 date.
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139 """
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141 def __cmp__(self, other):
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142 """Compare this date to another date."""
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143
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144 def __str__(self):
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145 """Return this date as a string in the yyyy-mm-dd.hh:mm:ss
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146 format.
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147 """
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149 def local(self, offset):
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150 """Return this date as yyyy-mm-dd.hh:mm:ss in a local time
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151 zone.
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156 """Construct an interval given a specification."""
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159 """Compare this interval to another interval."""
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168 and the current local time is 19:34:02 on 25 June 2000::
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173 "2000-06-25.19:34:02"
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175 <Date 2000-06-28.00:34:02>
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183 <Date 2000-06-25.19:25:00>
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187 <Date 2000-06-07.00:34:02>
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191 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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196 permits the creation and modification of classes as well as items.
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217 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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219 Property names must begin with a letter.
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223 - String properties are for storing arbitrary-length strings.
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225 - Boolean properties are for storing true/false, or yes/no values.
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233 specified class. The class is part of the property; the value is an
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242 A property that is not specified will return as None from a *get*
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243 operation.
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246 Hyperdb Interface Specification
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247 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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251 The hyperdb module provides property objects to designate the different
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252 kinds of properties. These objects are used when specifying what
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253 properties belong in classes::
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255 class String:
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256 def __init__(self, indexme='no'):
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257 """An object designating a String property."""
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260 def __init__(self):
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261 """An object designating a Boolean property."""
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265 """An object designating a Number property."""
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267 class Date:
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268 def __init__(self):
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269 """An object designating a Date property."""
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271 class Link:
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272 def __init__(self, classname, do_journal='yes'):
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293 """A database for storing records containing flexible data
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295 """
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314 """A convenient way of calling self.getclass(classname)."""
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316 def getclasses(self):
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317 """Return a list of the names of all existing classes."""
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318
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319 def getclass(self, classname):
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320 """Get the Class object representing a particular class.
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323 raised.
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324 """
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325
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326 class Class:
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327 """The handle to a particular class of items in a hyperdatabase.
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328 """
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329
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330 def __init__(self, db, classname, **properties):
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331 """Create a new class with a given name and property
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332 specification.
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333
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336 'properties' must map names to property objects, or a
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337 TypeError is raised.
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339 A proxied reference to the database is available as the
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340 'db' attribute on instances. For example, in
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341 'IssueClass.send_message', the following is used to lookup
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342 users, messages and files::
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343
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344 users = self.db.user
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345 messages = self.db.msg
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346 files = self.db.file
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347 """
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348
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349 # Editing items:
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350
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351 def create(self, **propvalues):
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352 """Create a new item of this class and return its id.
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354 The keyword arguments in 'propvalues' map property names to
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355 values. The values of arguments must be acceptable for the
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356 types of their corresponding properties or a TypeError is
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357 raised. If this class has a key property, it must be
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358 present and its value must not collide with other key
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359 strings or a ValueError is raised. Any other properties on
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363 """
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365 def get(self, itemid, propname):
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366 """Get the value of a property on an existing item of this
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367 class.
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369 'itemid' must be the id of an existing item of this class or
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370 an IndexError is raised. 'propname' must be the name of a
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371 property of this class or a KeyError is raised.
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372 """
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374 def set(self, itemid, **propvalues):
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375 """Modify a property on an existing item of this class.
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377 'itemid' must be the id of an existing item of this class or
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378 an IndexError is raised. Each key in 'propvalues' must be
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379 the name of a property of this class or a KeyError is
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380 raised. All values in 'propvalues' must be acceptable types
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381 for their corresponding properties or a TypeError is raised.
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382 If the value of the key property is set, it must not collide
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383 with other key strings or a ValueError is raised. If the
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384 value of a Link or Multilink property contains an invalid
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385 item id, a ValueError is raised.
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386 """
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387
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388 def retire(self, itemid):
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389 """Retire an item.
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390
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391 The properties on the item remain available from the get()
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392 method, and the item's id is never reused. Retired items
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394 and other items may reuse the values of their key
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395 properties.
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396 """
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397
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398 def restore(self, nodeid):
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399 '''Restore a retired node.
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401 Make node available for all operations like it was before
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402 retirement.
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403 '''
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404
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405 def history(self, itemid):
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406 """Retrieve the journal of edits on a particular item.
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408 'itemid' must be the id of an existing item of this class or
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409 an IndexError is raised.
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410
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411 The returned list contains tuples of the form
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412
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413 (date, tag, action, params)
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414
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416 change and 'tag' is the journaltag specified when the
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417 database was opened. 'action' may be:
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419 'create' or 'set' -- 'params' is a dictionary of
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420 property values
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421 'link' or 'unlink' -- 'params' is (classname, itemid,
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422 propname)
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423 'retire' -- 'params' is None
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424 """
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425
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426 # Locating items:
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427
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428 def setkey(self, propname):
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429 """Select a String property of this class to be the key
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430 property.
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432 'propname' must be the name of a String property of this
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433 class or None, or a TypeError is raised. The values of the
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434 key property on all existing items must be unique or a
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435 ValueError is raised.
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436 """
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437
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438 def getkey(self):
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439 """Return the name of the key property for this class or
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440 None.
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441 """
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442
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443 def lookup(self, keyvalue):
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444 """Locate a particular item by its key property and return
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445 its id.
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447 If this class has no key property, a TypeError is raised.
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448 If the 'keyvalue' matches one of the values for the key
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449 property among the items in this class, the matching item's
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450 id is returned; otherwise a KeyError is raised.
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451 """
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453 def find(self, propname, itemid):
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454 """Get the ids of items in this class which link to the
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455 given items.
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460 Multilink property, or a TypeError is raised.
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461
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462 Any item in this class whose 'propname' property links to
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463 any of the itemids will be returned. Used by the full text
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464 indexing, which knows that "foo" occurs in msg1, msg3 and
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465 file7, so we have hits on these issues:
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467 db.issue.find(messages={'1':1,'3':1}, files={'7':1})
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468 """
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470 def filter(self, search_matches, filterspec, sort, group):
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471 """ Return a list of the ids of the active items in this
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473 and then the sort spec.
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474 """
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476 def list(self):
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477 """Return a list of the ids of the active items in this
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478 class.
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479 """
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480
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481 def count(self):
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482 """Get the number of items in this class.
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485 items in this class run from 1 to numitems, and numitems+1
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487 """
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488
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491 def getprops(self):
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492 """Return a dictionary mapping property names to property
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494 """
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495
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496 def addprop(self, **properties):
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497 """Add properties to this class.
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504 """
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506 def getitem(self, itemid, cache=1):
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507 """ Return a Item convenience wrapper for the item.
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510 an IndexError is raised.
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512 'cache' indicates whether the transaction cache should be
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513 queried for the item. If the item has been modified and you
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515 you need to set cache=0.
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516 """
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518 class Item:
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519 """ A convenience wrapper for the given item. It provides a
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520 mapping interface to a single item's properties
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521 """
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523 Hyperdatabase Implementations
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524 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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526 Hyperdatabase implementations exist to create the interface described in
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527 the `hyperdb interface specification`_ over an existing storage
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528 mechanism. Examples are relational databases, \*dbm key-value databases,
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529 and so on.
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531 Several implementations are provided - they belong in the
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532 ``roundup.backends`` package.
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535 Application Example
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536 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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538 Here is an example of how the hyperdatabase module would work in
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539 practice::
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540
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541 >>> import hyperdb
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542 >>> db = hyperdb.Database("foo.db", "ping")
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543 >>> db
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544 <hyperdb.Database "foo.db" opened by "ping">
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545 >>> hyperdb.Class(db, "status", name=hyperdb.String())
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546 <hyperdb.Class "status">
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547 >>> _.setkey("name")
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548 >>> db.status.create(name="unread")
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549 1
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550 >>> db.status.create(name="in-progress")
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552 >>> db.status.create(name="testing")
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553 3
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554 >>> db.status.create(name="resolved")
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556 >>> db.status.count()
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557 4
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558 >>> db.status.list()
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559 [1, 2, 3, 4]
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560 >>> db.status.lookup("in-progress")
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562 >>> db.status.retire(3)
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563 >>> db.status.list()
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564 [1, 2, 4]
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565 >>> hyperdb.Class(db, "issue", title=hyperdb.String(), status=hyperdb.Link("status"))
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566 <hyperdb.Class "issue">
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567 >>> db.issue.create(title="spam", status=1)
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569 >>> db.issue.create(title="eggs", status=2)
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571 >>> db.issue.create(title="ham", status=4)
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573 >>> db.issue.create(title="arguments", status=2)
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574 4
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575 >>> db.issue.create(title="abuse", status=1)
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577 >>> hyperdb.Class(db, "user", username=hyperdb.Key(),
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578 ... password=hyperdb.String())
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579 <hyperdb.Class "user">
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580 >>> db.issue.addprop(fixer=hyperdb.Link("user"))
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581 >>> db.issue.getprops()
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582 {"title": <hyperdb.String>, "status": <hyperdb.Link to "status">,
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583 "user": <hyperdb.Link to "user">}
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584 >>> db.issue.set(5, status=2)
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585 >>> db.issue.get(5, "status")
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586 2
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587 >>> db.status.get(2, "name")
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588 "in-progress"
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589 >>> db.issue.get(5, "title")
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590 "abuse"
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591 >>> db.issue.find("status", db.status.lookup("in-progress"))
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592 [2, 4, 5]
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593 >>> db.issue.history(5)
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594 [(<Date 2000-06-28.19:09:43>, "ping", "create", {"title": "abuse",
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596 (<Date 2000-06-28.19:11:04>, "ping", "set", {"status": 2})]
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597 >>> db.status.history(1)
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598 [(<Date 2000-06-28.19:09:43>, "ping", "link", ("issue", 5, "status")),
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599 (<Date 2000-06-28.19:11:04>, "ping", "unlink", ("issue", 5, "status"))]
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600 >>> db.status.history(2)
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601 [(<Date 2000-06-28.19:11:04>, "ping", "link", ("issue", 5, "status"))]
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606 list. The journal records "unlink" events for all the items that appear
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611 Roundup Database
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612 ----------------
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614 The Roundup database layer is implemented on top of the hyperdatabase
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615 and mediates calls to the database. Some of the classes in the Roundup
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616 database are considered issue classes. The Roundup database layer adds
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617 detectors and user items, and on issues it provides mail spools, nosy
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618 lists, and superseders.
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622 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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624 Internal to this layer we reserve three special classes of items that
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625 are not issues.
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627 Users
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628 """""
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630 Users are stored in the hyperdatabase as items of class "user". The
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631 "user" class has the definition::
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633 hyperdb.Class(db, "user", username=hyperdb.String(),
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634 password=hyperdb.String(),
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635 address=hyperdb.String())
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636 db.user.setkey("username")
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637
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638 Messages
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639 """"""""
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640
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641 E-mail messages are represented by hyperdatabase items of class "msg".
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642 The actual text content of the messages is stored in separate files.
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643 (There's no advantage to be gained by stuffing them into the
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644 hyperdatabase, and if messages are stored in ordinary text files, they
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645 can be grepped from the command line.) The text of a message is saved
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646 in a file named after the message item designator (e.g. "msg23") for the
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647 sake of the command interface (see below). Attachments are stored
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648 separately and associated with "file" items. The "msg" class has the
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649 definition::
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650
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651 hyperdb.Class(db, "msg", author=hyperdb.Link("user"),
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652 recipients=hyperdb.Multilink("user"),
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653 date=hyperdb.Date(),
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654 summary=hyperdb.String(),
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655 files=hyperdb.Multilink("file"))
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656
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657 The "author" property indicates the author of the message (a "user" item
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658 must exist in the hyperdatabase for any messages that are stored in the
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659 system). The "summary" property contains a summary of the message for
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660 display in a message index.
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662
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663 Files
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664 """""
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666 Submitted files are represented by hyperdatabase items of class "file".
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667 Like e-mail messages, the file content is stored in files outside the
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668 database, named after the file item designator (e.g. "file17"). The
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669 "file" class has the definition::
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671 hyperdb.Class(db, "file", user=hyperdb.Link("user"),
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672 name=hyperdb.String(),
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673 type=hyperdb.String())
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674
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675 The "user" property indicates the user who submitted the file, the
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676 "name" property holds the original name of the file, and the "type"
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677 property holds the MIME type of the file as received.
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679
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680 Issue Classes
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681 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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682
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683 All issues have the following standard properties:
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684
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685 =========== ==========================
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686 Property Definition
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687 =========== ==========================
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688 title hyperdb.String()
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689 messages hyperdb.Multilink("msg")
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690 files hyperdb.Multilink("file")
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691 nosy hyperdb.Multilink("user")
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692 superseder hyperdb.Multilink("issue")
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693 =========== ==========================
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694
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695 Also, two Date properties named "creation" and "activity" are fabricated
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696 by the Roundup database layer. Two user Link properties, "creator" and
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697 "actor" are also fabricated. By "fabricated" we mean that no such
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698 properties are actually stored in the hyperdatabase, but when properties
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699 on issues are requested, the "creation"/"creator" and "activity"/"actor"
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700 properties are made available. The value of the "creation"/"creator"
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701 properties relate to issue creation, and the value of the "activity"/
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702 "actor" properties relate to the last editing of any property on the issue
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703 (equivalently, these are the dates on the first and last records in the
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704 issue's journal).
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705
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706
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707 Roundupdb Interface Specification
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708 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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709
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710 The interface to a Roundup database delegates most method calls to the
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711 hyperdatabase, except for the following changes and additional methods::
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712
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713 class Database:
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714 def getuid(self):
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715 """Return the id of the "user" item associated with the user
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716 that owns this connection to the hyperdatabase."""
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717
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718 class Class:
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719 # Overridden methods:
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720
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721 def create(self, **propvalues):
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722 def set(self, **propvalues):
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723 def retire(self, itemid):
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724 """These operations trigger detectors and can be vetoed.
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725 Attempts to modify the "creation", "creator", "activity"
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726 properties or "actor" cause a KeyError.
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727 """
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728
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729 # New methods:
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730
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731 def audit(self, event, detector):
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732 def react(self, event, detector):
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733 """Register a detector (see below for more details)."""
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734
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735 class IssueClass(Class):
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736 # Overridden methods:
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737
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738 def __init__(self, db, classname, **properties):
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739 """The newly-created class automatically includes the
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740 "messages", "files", "nosy", and "superseder" properties.
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741 If the 'properties' dictionary attempts to specify any of
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742 these properties or a "creation", "creator", "activity" or
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743 "actor" property, a ValueError is raised."""
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745 def get(self, itemid, propname):
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746 def getprops(self):
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747 """In addition to the actual properties on the item, these
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748 methods provide the "creation", "creator", "activity" and
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749 "actor" properties."""
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750
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751 # New methods:
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752
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753 def addmessage(self, itemid, summary, text):
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754 """Add a message to an issue's mail spool.
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755
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756 A new "msg" item is constructed using the current date, the
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757 user that owns the database connection as the author, and
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758 the specified summary text. The "files" and "recipients"
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759 fields are left empty. The given text is saved as the body
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760 of the message and the item is appended to the "messages"
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761 field of the specified issue.
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762 """
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763
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764 def nosymessage(self, itemid, msgid):
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765 """Send a message to the members of an issue's nosy list.
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766
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767 The message is sent only to users on the nosy list who are
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768 not already on the "recipients" list for the message. These
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769 users are then added to the message's "recipients" list.
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770 """
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771
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772
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773 Default Schema
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774 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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775
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776 The default schema included with Roundup turns it into a typical
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777 software bug tracker. The database is set up like this::
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779 pri = Class(db, "priority", name=hyperdb.String(),
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780 order=hyperdb.String())
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781 pri.setkey("name")
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782 pri.create(name="critical", order="1")
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783 pri.create(name="urgent", order="2")
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784 pri.create(name="bug", order="3")
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785 pri.create(name="feature", order="4")
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786 pri.create(name="wish", order="5")
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787
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788 stat = Class(db, "status", name=hyperdb.String(),
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789 order=hyperdb.String())
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790 stat.setkey("name")
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791 stat.create(name="unread", order="1")
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792 stat.create(name="deferred", order="2")
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793 stat.create(name="chatting", order="3")
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794 stat.create(name="need-eg", order="4")
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795 stat.create(name="in-progress", order="5")
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796 stat.create(name="testing", order="6")
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797 stat.create(name="done-cbb", order="7")
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798 stat.create(name="resolved", order="8")
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799
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800 Class(db, "keyword", name=hyperdb.String())
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801
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802 Class(db, "issue", fixer=hyperdb.Multilink("user"),
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803 topic=hyperdb.Multilink("keyword"),
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804 priority=hyperdb.Link("priority"),
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805 status=hyperdb.Link("status"))
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807 (The "order" property hasn't been explained yet. It gets used by the
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808 Web user interface for sorting.)
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810 The above isn't as pretty-looking as the schema specification in the
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811 first-stage submission, but it could be made just as easy with the
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812 addition of a convenience function like Choice for setting up the
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813 "priority" and "status" classes::
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814
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815 def Choice(name, *options):
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816 cl = Class(db, name, name=hyperdb.String(),
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817 order=hyperdb.String())
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818 for i in range(len(options)):
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819 cl.create(name=option[i], order=i)
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820 return hyperdb.Link(name)
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821
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822
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823 Detector Interface
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824 ------------------
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825
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826 Detectors are Python functions that are triggered on certain kinds of
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827 events. The definitions of the functions live in Python modules placed
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828 in a directory set aside for this purpose. Importing the Roundup
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829 database module also imports all the modules in this directory, and the
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830 ``init()`` function of each module is called when a database is opened
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831 to provide it a chance to register its detectors.
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832
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833 There are two kinds of detectors:
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834
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835 1. an auditor is triggered just before modifying an item
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836 2. a reactor is triggered just after an item has been modified
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837
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838 When the Roundup database is about to perform a ``create()``, ``set()``,
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839 ``retire()``, or ``restore`` operation, it first calls any *auditors*
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840 that have been registered for that operation on that class. Any auditor
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841 may raise a *Reject* exception to abort the operation.
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843 If none of the auditors raises an exception, the database proceeds to
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844 carry out the operation. After it's done, it then calls all of the
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845 *reactors* that have been registered for the operation.
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846
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847
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848 Detector Interface Specification
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849 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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850
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851 The ``audit()`` and ``react()`` methods register detectors on a given
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852 class of items::
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853
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854 class Class:
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855 def audit(self, event, detector):
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856 """Register an auditor on this class.
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857
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858 'event' should be one of "create", "set", "retire", or
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859 "restore". 'detector' should be a function accepting four
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860 arguments.
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861 """
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862
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863 def react(self, event, detector):
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864 """Register a reactor on this class.
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865
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866 'event' should be one of "create", "set", "retire", or
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867 "restore". 'detector' should be a function accepting four
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868 arguments.
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869 """
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870
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871 Auditors are called with the arguments::
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872
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873 audit(db, cl, itemid, newdata)
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874
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875 where ``db`` is the database, ``cl`` is an instance of Class or
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876 IssueClass within the database, and ``newdata`` is a dictionary mapping
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877 property names to values.
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878
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879 For a ``create()`` operation, the ``itemid`` argument is None and
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880 newdata contains all of the initial property values with which the item
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881 is about to be created.
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882
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883 For a ``set()`` operation, newdata contains only the names and values of
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884 properties that are about to be changed.
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885
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886 For a ``retire()`` or ``restore()`` operation, newdata is None.
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887
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888 Reactors are called with the arguments::
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889
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890 react(db, cl, itemid, olddata)
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891
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892 where ``db`` is the database, ``cl`` is an instance of Class or
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893 IssueClass within the database, and ``olddata`` is a dictionary mapping
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894 property names to values.
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895
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896 For a ``create()`` operation, the ``itemid`` argument is the id of the
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897 newly-created item and ``olddata`` is None.
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898
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899 For a ``set()`` operation, ``olddata`` contains the names and previous
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900 values of properties that were changed.
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901
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902 For a ``retire()`` or ``restore()`` operation, ``itemid`` is the id of
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903 the retired or restored item and ``olddata`` is None.
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904
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905
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906 Detector Example
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907 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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908
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909 Here is an example of detectors written for a hypothetical
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910 project-management application, where users can signal approval of a
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911 project by adding themselves to an "approvals" list, and a project
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912 proceeds when it has three approvals::
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913
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914 # Permit users only to add themselves to the "approvals" list.
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915
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916 def check_approvals(db, cl, id, newdata):
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917 if newdata.has_key("approvals"):
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918 if cl.get(id, "status") == db.status.lookup("approved"):
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919 raise Reject, "You can't modify the approvals list " \
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920 "for a project that has already been approved."
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921 old = cl.get(id, "approvals")
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922 new = newdata["approvals"]
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923 for uid in old:
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924 if uid not in new and uid != db.getuid():
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925 raise Reject, "You can't remove other users from " \
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926 "the approvals list; you can only remove " \
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927 "yourself."
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928 for uid in new:
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929 if uid not in old and uid != db.getuid():
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930 raise Reject, "You can't add other users to the " \
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931 "approvals list; you can only add yourself."
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932
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933 # When three people have approved a project, change its status from
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934 # "pending" to "approved".
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935
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936 def approve_project(db, cl, id, olddata):
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937 if (olddata.has_key("approvals") and
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938 len(cl.get(id, "approvals")) == 3):
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939 if cl.get(id, "status") == db.status.lookup("pending"):
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940 cl.set(id, status=db.status.lookup("approved"))
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941
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942 def init(db):
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943 db.project.audit("set", check_approval)
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946 Here is another example of a detector that can allow or prevent the
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947 creation of new items. In this scenario, patches for a software project
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948 are submitted by sending in e-mail with an attached file, and we want to
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949 ensure that there are text/plain attachments on the message. The
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950 maintainer of the package can then apply the patch by setting its status
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951 to "applied"::
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952
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953 # Only accept attempts to create new patches that come with patch
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954 # files.
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955
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956 def check_new_patch(db, cl, id, newdata):
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957 if not newdata["files"]:
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958 raise Reject, "You can't submit a new patch without " \
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959 "attaching a patch file."
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960 for fileid in newdata["files"]:
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961 if db.file.get(fileid, "type") != "text/plain":
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962 raise Reject, "Submitted patch files must be " \
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963 "text/plain."
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964
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965 # When the status is changed from "approved" to "applied", apply the
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966 # patch.
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967
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968 def apply_patch(db, cl, id, olddata):
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969 if (cl.get(id, "status") == db.status.lookup("applied") and
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970 olddata["status"] == db.status.lookup("approved")):
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971 # ...apply the patch...
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972
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973 def init(db):
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974 db.patch.audit("create", check_new_patch)
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975 db.patch.react("set", apply_patch)
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976
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977
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978 Command Interface
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979 -----------------
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980
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981 The command interface is a very simple and minimal interface, intended
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982 only for quick searches and checks from the shell prompt. (Anything more
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983 interesting can simply be written in Python using the Roundup database
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984 module.)
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985
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986
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987 Command Interface Specification
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988 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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989
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990 A single command, roundup, provides basic access to the hyperdatabase
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991 from the command line::
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992
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993 roundup-admin help
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994 roundup-admin get [-list] designator[, designator,...] propname
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995 roundup-admin set designator[, designator,...] propname=value ...
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996 roundup-admin find [-list] classname propname=value ...
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997
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998 See ``roundup-admin help commands`` for a complete list of commands.
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999
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1000 Property values are represented as strings in command arguments and in
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1001 the printed results:
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1002
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1003 - Strings are, well, strings.
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1004
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1005 - Numbers are displayed the same as strings.
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1006
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1007 - Booleans are displayed as 'Yes' or 'No'.
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1008
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1009 - Date values are printed in the full date format in the local time
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1010 zone, and accepted in the full format or any of the partial formats
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1011 explained above.
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1012
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1013 - Link values are printed as item designators. When given as an
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1014 argument, item designators and key strings are both accepted.
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1015
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1016 - Multilink values are printed as lists of item designators joined by
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1017 commas. When given as an argument, item designators and key strings
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1018 are both accepted; an empty string, a single item, or a list of items
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1019 joined by commas is accepted.
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1020
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1021 When multiple items are specified to the roundup get or roundup set
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1022 commands, the specified properties are retrieved or set on all the
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1023 listed items.
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1024
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1025 When multiple results are returned by the roundup get or roundup find
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1026 commands, they are printed one per line (default) or joined by commas
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1027 (with the -list) option.
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1028
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1029
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1030 Usage Example
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1031 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1032
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1033 To find all messages regarding in-progress issues that contain the word
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1034 "spam", for example, you could execute the following command from the
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1035 directory where the database dumps its files::
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1036
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1037 shell% for issue in `roundup find issue status=in-progress`; do
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1038 > grep -l spam `roundup get $issue messages`
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1039 > done
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1040 msg23
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1041 msg49
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1042 msg50
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1043 msg61
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1044 shell%
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1045
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1046 Or, using the -list option, this can be written as a single command::
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1047
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1048 shell% grep -l spam `roundup get \
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1049 \`roundup find -list issue status=in-progress\` messages`
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1050 msg23
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1051 msg49
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1052 msg50
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1053 msg61
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1054 shell%
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1055
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1056
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1057 E-mail User Interface
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1058 ---------------------
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1059
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1060 The Roundup system must be assigned an e-mail address at which to
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1061 receive mail. Messages should be piped to the Roundup mail-handling
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1062 script by the mail delivery system (e.g. using an alias beginning with
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1063 "|" for sendmail).
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1064
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1065
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1066 Message Processing
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1067 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1069 Incoming messages are examined for multiple parts. In a multipart/mixed
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1070 message or part, each subpart is extracted and examined. In a
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1071 multipart/alternative message or part, we look for a text/plain subpart
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1072 and ignore the other parts. The text/plain subparts are assembled to
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1073 form the textual body of the message, to be stored in the file
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1074 associated with a "msg" class item. Any parts of other types are each
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1075 stored in separate files and given "file" class items that are linked to
1089
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1076 the "msg" item.
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1078 The "summary" property on message items is taken from the first
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1079 non-quoting section in the message body. The message body is divided
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1080 into sections by blank lines. Sections where the second and all
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1081 subsequent lines begin with a ">" or "|" character are considered
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1082 "quoting sections". The first line of the first non-quoting section
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1083 becomes the summary of the message.
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1085 All of the addresses in the To: and Cc: headers of the incoming message
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1086 are looked up among the user items, and the corresponding users are
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1087 placed in the "recipients" property on the new "msg" item. The address
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1088 in the From: header similarly determines the "author" property of the
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1089 new "msg" item. The default handling for addresses that don't have
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1090 corresponding users is to create new users with no passwords and a
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1091 username equal to the address. (The web interface does not permit
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1092 logins for users with no passwords.) If we prefer to reject mail from
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1093 outside sources, we can simply register an auditor on the "user" class
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1094 that prevents the creation of user items with no passwords.
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1095
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1096 The subject line of the incoming message is examined to determine
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1097 whether the message is an attempt to create a new issue or to discuss an
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1098 existing issue. A designator enclosed in square brackets is sought as
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1099 the first thing on the subject line (after skipping any "Fwd:" or "Re:"
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1100 prefixes).
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1102 If an issue designator (class name and id number) is found there, the
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1103 newly created "msg" item is added to the "messages" property for that
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1104 issue, and any new "file" items are added to the "files" property for
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1105 the issue.
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1108 issue of that class with its "messages" property initialized to contain
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1109 the new "msg" item and its "files" property initialized to contain any
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1110 new "file" items.
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1112 Both cases may trigger detectors (in the first case we are calling the
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1113 set() method to add the message to the issue's spool; in the second case
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1114 we are calling the create() method to create a new item). If an auditor
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1115 raises an exception, the original message is bounced back to the sender
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1116 with the explanatory message given in the exception.
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1119 Nosy Lists
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1120 ~~~~~~~~~~
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1122 A standard detector is provided that watches for additions to the
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1123 "messages" property. When a new message is added, the detector sends it
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1124 to all the users on the "nosy" list for the issue that are not already
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1125 on the "recipients" list of the message. Those users are then appended
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1126 to the "recipients" property on the message, so multiple copies of a
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1127 message are never sent to the same user. The journal recorded by the
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1128 hyperdatabase on the "recipients" property then provides a log of when
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1129 the message was sent to whom.
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1131
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1132 Setting Properties
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1133 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1134
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1135 The e-mail interface also provides a simple way to set properties on
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1136 issues. At the end of the subject line, ``propname=value`` pairs can be
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1137 specified in square brackets, using the same conventions as for the
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1138 roundup ``set`` shell command.
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1139
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1140
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1141 Web User Interface
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1142 ------------------
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1143
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1144 The web interface is provided by a CGI script that can be run under any
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1145 web server. A simple web server can easily be built on the standard
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1146 CGIHTTPServer module, and should also be included in the distribution
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1147 for quick out-of-the-box deployment.
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1148
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1149 The user interface is constructed from a number of template files
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1150 containing mostly HTML. Among the HTML tags in templates are
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1151 interspersed some nonstandard tags, which we use as placeholders to be
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1152 replaced by properties and their values.
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1153
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1154
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1155 Views and View Specifiers
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1156 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1157
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1158 There are two main kinds of views: *index* views and *issue* views. An
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1159 index view displays a list of issues of a particular class, optionally
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1160 sorted and filtered as requested. An issue view presents the properties
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1161 of a particular issue for editing and displays the message spool for the
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1162 issue.
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1163
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1164 A view specifier is a string that specifies all the options needed to
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1165 construct a particular view. It goes after the URL to the Roundup CGI
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1166 script or the web server to form the complete URL to a view. When the
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1167 result of selecting a link or submitting a form takes the user to a new
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1168 view, the Web browser should be redirected to a canonical location
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1169 containing a complete view specifier so that the view can be bookmarked.
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1170
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1171
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1172 Displaying Properties
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1173 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1174
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1175 Properties appear in the user interface in three contexts: in indices,
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1176 in editors, and as search filters. For each type of property, there are
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1177 several display possibilities. For example, in an index view, a string
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1178 property may just be printed as a plain string, but in an editor view,
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1179 that property should be displayed in an editable field.
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1180
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1181 The display of a property is handled by functions in the
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1182 ``cgi.templating`` module.
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1183
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1184 Displayer functions are triggered by ``tal:content`` or ``tal:replace``
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1185 tag attributes in templates. The value of the attribute provides an
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1186 expression for calling the displayer function. For example, the
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1187 occurrence of::
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1188
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1189 tal:content="context/status/plain"
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1190
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1191 in a template triggers a call to::
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1193 context['status'].plain()
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1195 where the context would be an item of the "issue" class. The displayer
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1196 functions can accept extra arguments to further specify details about
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1197 the widgets that should be generated.
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1198
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1199 Some of the standard displayer functions include:
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1200
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1201 ========= ==============================================================
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1202 Function Description
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1203 ========= ==============================================================
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1204 plain display a String property directly;
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1205 display a Date property in a specified time zone with an
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1206 option to omit the time from the date stamp; for a Link or
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1207 Multilink property, display the key strings of the linked
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1208 items (or the ids if the linked class has no key property)
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1209 field display a property like the plain displayer above, but in a
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1210 text field to be edited
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1211 menu for a Link property, display a menu of the available choices
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1212 ========= ==============================================================
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1213
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1214 See the `customisation`_ documentation for the complete list.
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1215
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1216
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1217 Index Views
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1218 ~~~~~~~~~~~
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1219
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1220 An index view contains two sections: a filter section and an index
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1221 section. The filter section provides some widgets for selecting which
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1222 issues appear in the index. The index section is a table of issues.
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1224
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1225 Index View Specifiers
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1226 """""""""""""""""""""
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1227
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1228 An index view specifier looks like this (whitespace has been added for
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1229 clarity)::
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1231 /issue?status=unread,in-progress,resolved&
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1232 topic=security,ui&
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1233 :group=priority&
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1234 :sort=-activity&
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1235 :filters=status,topic&
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1236 :columns=title,status,fixer
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1237
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1238
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1239 The index view is determined by two parts of the specifier: the layout
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1240 part and the filter part. The layout part consists of the query
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1241 parameters that begin with colons, and it determines the way that the
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1242 properties of selected items are displayed. The filter part consists of
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1243 all the other query parameters, and it determines the criteria by which
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1244 items are selected for display.
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1246 The filter part is interactively manipulated with the form widgets
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1247 displayed in the filter section. The layout part is interactively
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1248 manipulated by clicking on the column headings in the table.
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1249
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1250 The filter part selects the union of the sets of issues with values
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1251 matching any specified Link properties and the intersection of the sets
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1252 of issues with values matching any specified Multilink properties.
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1254 The example specifies an index of "issue" items. Only issues with a
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1255 "status" of either "unread" or "in-progres" or "resolved" are displayed,
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1258 ascending order; and within groups, sorted by activity, arranged in
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1259 descending order. The filter section shows filters for the "status" and
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1260 "topic" properties, and the table includes columns for the "title",
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1261 "status", and "fixer" properties.
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1263 Associated with each issue class is a default layout specifier. The
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1264 layout specifier in the above example is the default layout to be
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1265 provided with the default bug-tracker schema described above in section
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1266 4.4.
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1268 Index Section
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1269 """""""""""""
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1271 The template for an index section describes one row of the index table.
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1272 Fragments protected by a ``tal:condition="request/show/<property>"`` are
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1274 column for a particular property. The table cells are filled by the
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1275 ``tal:content="context/<property>"`` directive, which displays the value
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1276 of the property.
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1278 Here's a simple example of an index template::
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1279
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1281 <td tal:condition="request/show/title"
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1282 tal:content="contex/title"></td>
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1283 <td tal:condition="request/show/status"
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1285 <td tal:condition="request/show/fixer"
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1286 tal:content="contex/fixer"></td>
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1289 Sorting
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1290 """""""
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1292 String and Date values are sorted in the natural way. Link properties
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1293 are sorted according to the value of the "order" property on the linked
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1294 items if it is present; or otherwise on the key string of the linked
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1295 items; or finally on the item ids. Multilink properties are sorted
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1296 according to how many links are present.
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1297
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1298 Issue Views
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1299 ~~~~~~~~~~~
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1301 An issue view contains an editor section and a spool section. At the top
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1302 of an issue view, links to superseding and superseded issues are always
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1303 displayed.
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1305 Issue View Specifiers
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1306 """""""""""""""""""""
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1307
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1308 An issue view specifier is simply the issue's designator::
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1310 /patch23
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1311
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1312
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1313 Editor Section
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1314 """"""""""""""
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1316 The editor section is generated from a template containing
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1317 ``tal:content="context/<property>/<widget>"`` directives to insert the
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1318 appropriate widgets for editing properties.
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1319
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1320 Here's an example of a basic editor template::
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1321
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1322 <table>
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1325 tal:content="python:context.title.field(size='60')"></td>
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1327 <tr>
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1328 <td tal:content="context/fixer/field"></td>
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1329 <td tal:content="context/status/menu"></td>
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1332 <td tal:content="context/nosy/field"></td>
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1333 <td tal:content="context/priority/menu"></td>
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1335 <tr>
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1336 <td colspan=2>
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1337 <textarea name=":note" rows=5 cols=60></textarea>
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1338 </td>
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1339 </tr>
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1340 </table>
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1342 As shown in the example, the editor template can also include a ":note"
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1343 field, which is a text area for entering a note to go along with a
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1344 change.
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1346 When a change is submitted, the system automatically generates a message
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1347 describing the changed properties. The message displays all of the
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1348 property values on the issue and indicates which ones have changed. An
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1349 example of such a message might be this::
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1350
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1351 title: Polly Parrot is dead
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1352 priority: critical
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1353 status: unread -> in-progress
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1354 fixer: (none)
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1355 keywords: parrot,plumage,perch,nailed,dead
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1357 If a note is given in the ":note" field, the note is appended to the
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1358 description. The message is then added to the issue's message spool
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1359 (thus triggering the standard detector to react by sending out this
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1360 message to the nosy list).
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1363 Spool Section
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1364 """""""""""""
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1366 The spool section lists messages in the issue's "messages" property.
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1367 The index of messages displays the "date", "author", and "summary"
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1368 properties on the message items, and selecting a message takes you to
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1369 its content.
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1371 Access Control
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1372 --------------
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1374 At each point that requires an action to be performed, the security
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1375 mechanisms are asked if the current user has permission. This permission
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1376 is defined as a Permission.
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1378 Individual assignment of Permission to user is unwieldy. The concept of
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1379 a Role, which encompasses several Permissions and may be assigned to
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1380 many Users, is quite well developed in many projects. Roundup will take
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1381 this path, and allow the multiple assignment of Roles to Users, and
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1382 multiple Permissions to Roles. These definitions are not persistent -
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1383 they're defined when the application initialises.
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1385 There will be two levels of Permission. The Class level permissions
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1386 define logical permissions associated with all items of a particular
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1387 class (or all classes). The Item level permissions define logical
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1388 permissions associated with specific items by way of their user-linked
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1389 properties.
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1392 Access Control Interface Specification
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1393 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1395 The security module defines::
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1396
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1397 class Permission:
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1398 ''' Defines a Permission with the attributes
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1399 - name
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1400 - description
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1401 - klass (optional)
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1402
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1403 The klass may be unset, indicating that this permission is
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1404 not locked to a particular hyperdb class. There may be
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1405 multiple Permissions for the same name for different
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1406 classes.
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1407 '''
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1408
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1409 class Role:
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1410 ''' Defines a Role with the attributes
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1411 - name
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1412 - description
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1413 - permissions
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1414 '''
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1415
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1416 class Security:
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1417 def __init__(self, db):
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1418 ''' Initialise the permission and role stores, and add in
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1419 the base roles (for admin user).
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1420 '''
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1421
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1422 def getPermission(self, permission, classname=None):
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1423 ''' Find the Permission matching the name and for the class,
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1424 if the classname is specified.
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1425
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1426 Raise ValueError if there is no exact match.
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1427 '''
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1428
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1429 def hasPermission(self, permission, userid, classname=None):
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1430 ''' Look through all the Roles, and hence Permissions, and
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1431 see if "permission" is there for the specified
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1432 classname.
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1433 '''
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1434
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1435 def hasItemPermission(self, classname, itemid, **propspec):
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1436 ''' Check the named properties of the given item to see if
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1437 the userid appears in them. If it does, then the user is
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1438 granted this permission check.
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1440 'propspec' consists of a set of properties and values
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1441 that must be present on the given item for access to be
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1442 granted.
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1443
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1444 If a property is a Link, the value must match the
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1445 property value. If a property is a Multilink, the value
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1446 must appear in the Multilink list.
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1447 '''
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1448
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1449 def addPermission(self, **propspec):
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1450 ''' Create a new Permission with the properties defined in
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1451 'propspec'
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1452 '''
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1453
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1454 def addRole(self, **propspec):
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1455 ''' Create a new Role with the properties defined in
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1456 'propspec'
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1457 '''
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1458
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1459 def addPermissionToRole(self, rolename, permission):
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1460 ''' Add the permission to the role's permission list.
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1461
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1462 'rolename' is the name of the role to add permission to.
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1463 '''
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1464
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1465 Modules such as ``cgi/client.py`` and ``mailgw.py`` define their own
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1466 permissions like so (this example is ``cgi/client.py``)::
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1467
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1468 def initialiseSecurity(security):
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1469 ''' Create some Permissions and Roles on the security object
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1471 This function is directly invoked by
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1472 security.Security.__init__() as a part of the Security
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1473 object instantiation.
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1474 '''
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1475 p = security.addPermission(name="Web Registration",
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1476 description="Anonymous users may register through the web")
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1477 security.addToRole('Anonymous', p)
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1478
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1479 Detectors may also define roles in their init() function::
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1480
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1481 def init(db):
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1482 # register an auditor that checks that a user has the "May
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1483 # Resolve" Permission before allowing them to set an issue
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1484 # status to "resolved"
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1485 db.issue.audit('set', checkresolvedok)
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1486 p = db.security.addPermission(name="May Resolve", klass="issue")
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1487 security.addToRole('Manager', p)
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1488
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1489 The tracker dbinit module then has in ``open()``::
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1490
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1491 # open the database - it must be modified to init the Security class
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1492 # from security.py as db.security
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1493 db = Database(config, name)
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1494
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1495 # add some extra permissions and associate them with roles
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1496 ei = db.security.addPermission(name="Edit", klass="issue",
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1497 description="User is allowed to edit issues")
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1498 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', ei)
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1499 ai = db.security.addPermission(name="View", klass="issue",
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1500 description="User is allowed to access issues")
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1501 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', ai)
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1502
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1503 In the dbinit ``init()``::
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1504
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1505 # create the two default users
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1506 user.create(username="admin", password=Password(adminpw),
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1507 address=config.ADMIN_EMAIL, roles='Admin')
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1508 user.create(username="anonymous", roles='Anonymous')
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1509
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1510 Then in the code that matters, calls to ``hasPermission`` and
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1511 ``hasItemPermission`` are made to determine if the user has permission
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1512 to perform some action::
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1513
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1514 if db.security.hasPermission('issue', 'Edit', userid):
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1515 # all ok
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1516
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1517 if db.security.hasItemPermission('issue', itemid,
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1518 assignedto=userid):
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1519 # all ok
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1521 Code in the core will make use of these methods, as should code in
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1522 auditors in custom templates. The HTML templating may access the access
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1523 controls through the *user* attribute of the *request* variable. It
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1525
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1526 tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('Edit', 'issue')"
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1527
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1528 or, if the *context* is *issue*, then the following is the same::
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1529
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1530 tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('Edit')"
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1531
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1532
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1533 Authentication of Users
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1534 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1536 Users must be authenticated correctly for the above controls to work.
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1537 This is not done in the current mail gateway at all. Use of digital
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1540 The exact mechanism of registering the digital signature should be
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1541 flexible, with perhaps a level of trust. Users who supply their
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1542 signature through their first message into the tracker should be at a
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1543 lower level of trust to those who supply their signature to an admin for
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1544 submission to their user details.
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1546
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1547 Anonymous Users
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1548 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1549
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1550 The "anonymous" user must always exist, and defines the access
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1551 permissions for anonymous users. Unknown users accessing Roundup through
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1552 the web or email interfaces will be logged in as the "anonymous" user.
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1553
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1554
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1555 Use Cases
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1556 ~~~~~~~~~
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1557
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1558 public - end users can submit bugs, request new features, request
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1559 support
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1560 The Users would be given the default "User" Role which gives "View"
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1561 and "Edit" Permission to the "issue" class.
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1562 developer - developers can fix bugs, implement new features, provide
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1563 support
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1564 A new Role "Developer" is created with the Permission "Fixer" which
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1565 is checked for in custom auditors that see whether the issue is
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1566 being resolved with a particular resolution ("fixed", "implemented",
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1567 "supported") and allows that resolution only if the permission is
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1568 available.
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1569 manager - approvers/managers can approve new features and signoff bug
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1570 fixes
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1571 A new Role "Manager" is created with the Permission "Signoff" which
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1572 is checked for in custom auditors that see whether the issue status
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1573 is being changed similar to the developer example. admin -
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1574 administrators can add users and set user's roles The existing Role
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1575 "Admin" has the Permissions "Edit" for all classes (including
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1576 "user") and "Web Roles" which allow the desired actions.
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1577 system - automated request handlers running various report/escalation
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1578 scripts
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1579 A combination of existing and new Roles, Permissions and auditors
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1580 could be used here.
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1581 privacy - issues that are only visible to some users
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1582 A new property is added to the issue which marks the user or group
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1583 of users who are allowed to view and edit the issue. An auditor will
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1584 check for edit access, and the template user object can check for
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1585 view access.
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1586
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1587
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1588 Deployment Scenarios
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1589 --------------------
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1590
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1591 The design described above should be general enough to permit the use of
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1592 Roundup for bug tracking, managing projects, managing patches, or
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1593 holding discussions. By using items of multiple types, one could deploy
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1594 a system that maintains requirement specifications, catalogs bugs, and
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1595 manages submitted patches, where patches could be linked to the bugs and
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1596 requirements they address.
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1597
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1598
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1599 Acknowledgements
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1601
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1602 My thanks are due to Christy Heyl for reviewing and contributing
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1603 suggestions to this paper and motivating me to get it done, and to Jesse
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1604 Vincent, Mark Miller, Christopher Simons, Jeff Dunmall, Wayne Gramlich,
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1605 and Dean Tribble for their assistance with the first-round submission.
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1606
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1607
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1608 Changes to this document
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1609 ------------------------
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1610
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1611 - Added Boolean and Number types
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1612 - Added section Hyperdatabase Implementations
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1613 - "Item" has been renamed to "Issue" to account for the more specific
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1614 nature of the Class.
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1615 - New Templating
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1616 - Access Controls
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1617 - Added "actor" property
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1618
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1619 ------------------
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1621 Back to `Table of Contents`_
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1622
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1623 .. _`Table of Contents`: index.html
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1624 .. _customisation: customizing.html
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1625
Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/