- You must make the `etiquette` package importable by placing it in one of your lib paths because I have not made a setup.py yet. The easiest way to find your lib path is `python -c "import os; print(os)"`. Rather than actually moving the folder I just use filesystem junctions.
Windows: `mklink /J fakepath realpath`
for example `mklink /J "C:\Python36\Lib\etiquette" "D:\Git\Etiquette\etiquette"`
Linux: `ln --symbolic realpath fakepath`
for example `ln --symbolic "/home/Owner/Git/Etiquette/etiquette" "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/etiquette"`
- Run `python -i etiquette_repl_launch.py` to launch the Python interpreter with the PhotoDB pre-loaded into a variable called `P`. Try things like `P.new_photo` or `P.digest_directory`.
- Note: Do not `cd` into the frontends folder. Stay wherever you want the photodb to be created, and start the frontend by specifying full file path of the launch file.
You may notice that Etiquette doesn't have a version number anywhere. That's because I don't think it's ready for one. I am using this project to learn and practice, and breaking changes are very common.
Ideally, the backend should be frontend-agnostic. Even though the Flask interface is my primary interest, it should not feel like it must be the only one. Therefore I place it in this folder to indicate that other frontends are possible too. Every folder here is essentially a completely separate project.
This folder represents the flask server as somewhat of a black box, in the sense that you can move it around and just run the contained launch file. Subfolders contain the HTML templates, static files, and site code.
- When users have '%' or '#', etc. in their username, it is difficult to access their /user/ URL. I would prefer to fix it without simply blacklisting those characters.
- Currently, the Jinja templates are having a tangling influence on the backend objects, because Jinja cannot import my other modules like bytestring, but it can access the methods of the objects I pass into the template. As a result, the objects have excess helper methods. Consider making them into Jinja filters instead. Which is also kind of ugly but will move that pollution out of the backend at least.
- Perhaps instead of actually deleting objects, they should just have a `deleted` flag, to make easy restoration possible. Also consider regrouping the children of restored Groupables if those children haven't already been reassigned somewhere else.
- Add a new table to store permanent history of add/remove of tags on photos, so that accidents or trolling can be reversed.
- Extension currently does not believe in the override filename. On one hand this is kind of good because if they override the name to have no extension, we can still provide a downloadable file with the correct extension by remembering it. But on the other hand it does break the illusion of override_filename.
Here are some thoughts about the kinds of features that need to exist within the permission system. I don't know how I'll actually manage it just yet. Possibly a `permissions` table in the database with `user_id | permission` where `permission` is some reliably-formatted string.
- Preventing logged out users from viewing any page except root and /login.
