[Grok-dev] grokproject: paster support in trunk now

[Derek Richardson]

Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> Derek Richardson wrote:
>> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>> Hey Brandon,
>>>
>>> Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
>>>> Will the paster grokproject be released soon?  I'm talking about Grok at
>>>> a conference next week, and, since Grok provides no native user login
>>>> page or management (that I'm aware of), I really need the WSGI stack
>>>> available in order to show "how easy [or even possible!] it is" to add
>>>> user authentication and a login page on top of a Grok app.
>>> I think a release will happen sooner if it gets more eyeballs in review 
>>> and if it gets documentation. You can try it out by checking it out and 
>>> running buildout on it. Then you can try bin/grokproject
>>>
>>> Could you give it a spin and perhaps write a little document about how 
>>> one uses it?
>>>
>>> This way you'll learn about it and can still talk about it next week, 
>>> even if it isn't released yet. It's a rather major change in the way 
>>> things work so this needs careful preparation in the way of 
>>> documentation including our beginners tutorial.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Martijn
>> Hi. I've been out of the loop for a while, but have a need to integrate 
>> two grok apps as wsgi applications in a pre-existing paste wsgi pipeline 
>> with multiple other wsgi apps.
>>
>> I tried this yesterday but ran into a problem. I don't want to run 
>> grokproject in my central paste directory. I would like to have a 
>> separate directory for the grok app at the same level as the central 
>> paste pipeline. Like so:
>>
>> /srv
>>   |- oitws-web-server (central paste pipeline)
>>   |- tco (grok app 1)
>>   |- invoices (grok app 2)
>>
>> where tco and invoices can serve as endpoints in the pipeline set in 
>> oitws-web-server. I like this design because it keeps the grok endpoints 
>> separate from the main paste pipeline - easier to maintain or remove the 
>> grok apps, if necessary.
>>
>> Is this a reasonable design? If not, why? If so, what is the best way to 
>> do it? I found that, when I put the paste ini config section for tco 
>> into oitws-web-server, the paste pipeline couldn't find the conf files 
>> for zope. When I moved them over to oitws-web-server/etc, it found them 
>> but then it couldn't access tco's parts. I assume that this is all due 
>> to pre-set relative paths.
>>
> 
> Hi Derek, i just changed the trunk to make configuration files use
> absolute paths. Starting the instance from different directories and
> paste configs should work now.
> One thing to remember: startup.py assumes that .ini and zope.conf files
> are in the same folder (global_config['here'], thats the location of the
> paster .ini file). If you want to change that behaviour please let me
> know. The zope.conf file could be read as well from the package/etc folder.
> 
> Regards
> Michael
> 

Michael,

Thanks! That is great! I will try it out, likely, tomorrow.

Would it be possible to have the location of the zope.conf file 
configurable in the paster.ini so that it defaults to the same location 
as paster.ini but could be manually set to be at a different location? 
That seems like the perfect solution, to me.

Thanks again for the quick action!

Derek