Blueprint for Web Setup

Provide a 1st-time configuration screen.

Setting the 1st username/password here & then running models/zzz_1st_run.py means that:

• User can be given admin rights even on databases which support referential integrity.
  • MySQL can:

    SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
    do import
    SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
    

Configuration settings are in the file models/000_config.py which will have a simple structured format.

• models/00_settings.py reads these settings to do the actual configuration.
• The Web Setup should ideally read in the 000_config.py file, make any amendments as-required & then write it out.
• This means that developers can edit the settings live (we remain RAD) & there are no unncessary DB calls every request.
• Ideally the Web setup should have a UI which works via introspection, so doesn't need to be maintained separately when settings are added/amended (this means the settings file needs to include labels/help text).
• 000_config.py instantiates the S3Config class as deployment_settings:
  • S3Config is a subclass of Storage and can therefore be written in dot-notation
  • S3Config implements methods to read the config values (instead of accessing the instance attributes themselves), which also implement any fallback values. These methods should be used throughout the application (=do not store their return values in any global variables).
  • additionally, a S3Config instance could (should) be made read-only during the current request (=safer) by amending the __setattr__ method to not accept updates
  • S3Config could contain a method to generate a web form to create a new instance (+pre-populate the form with values of another instance)
  • S3Config could then even contain a method to write the instance to a config file like 000_config.py

There should be an option to be able to run with settings in the DB instead of config file to support:

• Load-balanced webservers
• GAE

Provide an option to import themes of settings (e.g. 'FEMA') using shn_import from CSV files in private/import:

• Symbology (icons on maps)
• Terminology of Labels
• Forms used (which fields are used, which are mandatory, etc)
• Which modules are active

Sahana2 version:

• ​http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org/doku.php?id=dev:websetup
• ​http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org/doku.php?id=dev:saws

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