I have built a web platform with Django. Users with Staff status can log into Django-admin through their web browsers and add, remove or alter different objects, upload files, etc.
Now I want to build a command line tool to enable users to do these tasks via command line. The users need to authenticate in command line, and then use different commands to perform their target operation.
Think a command line git client to github.
Of course it's possible to authenticate and send form data using request or cURL. But is there any standard, better way of doing this? Is there any utility/library for this, maybe a Django/python one?
This looks like a '2-component' thing.
API
You will have to expose the desired functionality via an (RESTful) API.
Two common and very good libraries are tastypie and Django REST Framework.
They help you building APIs in a fast and flexible way - think about it as 'Django admin' for APIs.
Client
For request handling I would suggest to have a look at the python-requests library.
PS:
If you're interested - we did build a (quick, ugly, dirty & buggy) python client that interacts with our Django based service platform. You can find it on GitHub
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I'm trying to integrate backend code into a Wix site. Im not too picky about how I want to do this, or what language to write in (ideally, I have a locally-hosted Java code that I'd love to simply call). I wouldn't mind re-writing it in JavaScript though, or another language. But before I decide that I'm confused about my options. I can code but I'm new to the concepts like modules, APIs, & servers.
According to my research, back-end code with Wix is supposed to be easy (or at least do-able and not THAT complicated)....
From this webpage https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-calling-server-side-code-from-the-front-end-with-web-modules,
"Web modules are exclusive to Corvid and enable you to write functions that run server-side in the backend, and easily call them in your client-side code. With web modules you can import functions from backend into files or scripts in public, knowing they will run server-side. Corvid handles all the client-server communication required to enable this access."
And from this: https://www.sitepoint.com/what-is-wix-code/
"It’s serverless: All this added functionality comes in a serverless environment that lets you get your work done without any of the normal full-stack development headaches.
Just code and go: Wix Code has a built-in, online IDE and backend so you can just add the code you need to your page or your site, publish, and you’re live."
So, I thought they have a backend IDE where I can write backend code directly, or I could call my Java program. But, as I tried doing this and finding tutorials, it seems I can really only do this by calling a public API from the backend...?
https://youtu.be/tuu0D1izrUU
But ive also read (and someone who supposedly has done it before told me this) that Wix integrates with node.js, which is a backend version of JavaScript.
Can I use a Wix domain for a NodeJS app?
But, when I go into my Wix site I cannot find any option for using Node JS, and doing research on that gives me no useful results.
So, I'm thoroughly confused on what the capabilities are here. Can someone help me make sense of this?
Why are there no tutorials showing explicit code in the Corvid backend module? What's stopping me from simply writing my Java program there in a module? Do I really need an API endpoint to call and pass to the front end?
Is Node JS supported or not - has anyone done this before?
Also, in one link above they said everything is "serverless". But if I have to set up my own API endpoint won't I need to set up my own server??
There are basically two ways to go about this, which you seem to have already discovered.
Write your backend code in your Wix site. Indeed, the backend is built on Node.js as you can see here. Using this approach you will have to use JavaScript. As you seem to have found, you write this code in the Backend section of your site in a Web Module. Pros: you don't need to worry about managing a server and all your code is in one place.
Expose your already existing Java code as an API that your Wix site can call using the wix-fetch API. Pros: you don't need to rewrite your code.
I wrote a Django app that collects data from clients and displays them in it's web app.
Now I want to write a script/program (WPF or a small Java App) that manages the Django server. Things like Start/Stop, update Django files, migrate Data etc.
Reason is: I want to stuff all of that into an .exe, maybe with a setup and licensing for my potential customers.
What would be the most professional attempt to do this? I wrote smaller scripts before and built them with pyInstaller, which does not seem to work with Django. Or should I just install a python interpreter with my setup and just run the python files? Then my code would be visible to my customers.
Any tips are appreciated.
you have two options really. either run the app on the customer's hardware or your own. if you don't want your code exposed you should consider hosting the application yourself and providing them with authentication
Django authentication is actually pretty robust, check out these two articles from the official docs. This is a general tutoria on authentication l: docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/auth/customizing/… and this is a broader scope one on django in general docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/intro/tutorial01
Edit: just do it here
I am to develop an app, and I have to choose between Ruby on Rails or Python+Django. So far I want to do it with Ruby on Rails, because i feel more comfortable doing what I have to do on it.
But there is a problem. There would be a client app written on Python that has to communicate with mine. Cause that app should be able to communicate with mine.
First: I think if it is a matter of communicating with the MySQL database there wouldn't be an issue, cause the Python app is able to query to MySQL server with proper authentication right?
Second: and more important question: If I have a Ruby written API, to ease the queries, Could the Python app be able to invoke functions in that API and get the results? If it is possible, How could I achieve that?
Ruby on Rails 5 supports API only app, if you are using this app for APIs only, else just create a normal app and expose API endpoints that render json outputs. Use Active Record for mapping your MySql database and jbuilder for json views (both of which are available by default when you create new app). You will find lots of tutorials if you google Use Ruby on Rails as API app.
Good luck with it.. :)
Hi recently created my website in django. And I have used a web hosting provider who has django, python and my sql installed. But they do not have the ssh option or command prompt in their file manager. How can I use a script to excecute all the commands after uploading my site to the server .
I want file to be created like this updatedb.sh or updatedb.py .
Can anyone tell me how to use the scripts alone to host my django site live.
It is possible to have your Django views execute lines like:
import os
os.system("python manage.py syncdb")
In theory you could get the site working like that. However, this is a very poor strategy for deployment. Aside from the hassle of having os.system lines every time you want to do anything, what will you do if your entire site breaks? You'd be using convoluted hacks just to do the most basic maintenance.
If your web hosting provider truly doesn't support any kind of command line or even give you other options for setting up Django, it's time to find a new web hosting provider. I might recommend heroku, which supports Django and lets you deploy using git. (It is also free up to a certain amount of use).
I need to develop a web application with the following requirements:
Desktop like UI on the client side
Application deployment
Scalability (i.e. distributing the service on multiple servers)
What I thought of so far (as I love Python but haven't done much web development yet):
Django
Fabric (think I've read somewhere it's suited for this)
What I'm missing is:
How to create rich clients (probably need some javascript libraries for that)?
How to distribute the service?
For RIA you need to use some client technology in your templates.
See at Dojo or ExtJs.
ExtJs docs have example of Web Desktop app, but this library is not free for commercial project. I like more Dojo, and it is free.
Rich Internet Application: Javascript to do stuff asynchronously (AJAX). If you want a desktop-like interface on the web, it seems currently CoffeeScript is the way to go. It's a language that compiles into Javascript and adapted for rich interfaces.
Deployment: fabric (I think it's used to deploy Python apps).
Distribution: you deploy the code to one server.If you need to scale it up, you just need some additional servers (of course if you have specific usages like very high load on a database, you'll also need to add more database servers etc. But you get the idea).
using web browser as your client platform?