Etiquette ========= I am currently running a demonstration copy of Etiquette at http://etiquette.voussoir.net where you can browse around. This is not yet permanent. ### What am I looking at Etiquette is a tag-based file organization system with a web front-end. Documentation is still a work in progress. In general, - 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"` I'm sure you'll figure it out. - Run `python etiquette_flask_launch.py [port]` to launch the flask server. Port defaults to 5000 if not provided. - 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. ### Project stability 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. ### Project structure Here is a brief overview of the project to help you learn your way around: - `etiquette` The core backend package. - `objects` Definition of the Etiquette data objects like Photos and Tags. - `photodb` Definition of the PhotoDB class and its Mixins. - `frontends` 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. - `etiquette_flask` 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. - `etiquette_flask` The package that contains the site's actual API code. - `etiquette_repl` Preloads a few variables into the interpreter so you can quickly test functions within the Python REPL itself. - `utilities` For other scripts that will be used with etiquette databases, but are not part of the library itself. ### To do list - Make the wording between "new", "create", "add"; and "remove", "delete" more consistent. - User account system, permission levels, private pages. - Improve the "tags on this page" list. Maybe add separate buttons for must/may/forbid on each. - Some way for the database to re-identify a file that was moved / renamed (lost & found). Maybe file hash of the first few mb is good enough. - Debate whether the `UserMixin.login` method should accept usernames or I should standardize the usage of IDs only internally. - Ability to access user photos by user's ID, not just username. - Should album size be cached on disk? - Replace columns like area, ratio, bitrate by using expression indices or views (`width * height` etc). - Add a `Photo.merge` to combine duplicate entries. - Generate thumbnails for vector files without falling victim to bombs. - Allow photos to have nonstandard, orderby-able properties like "release year". How? - Improve the appearance of album page. Too many section headers and the "Create album" interface should allow giving a title immediately. - 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. - Fix album size cache when photo reload metadata and generally improve that validation. - Better bookmark url validation. - Create a textbox which gives autocomplete tag names. - Consider if the "did you commit too early" warning should actually be an exception. ### To do list: User permissions 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. - Uploading photos (`can_upload`) - File extension restrictions - Add / remove tags from photo - My own photos (`can_tag_own`) - Explicit individual allow / deny (`can_tag_photo:`) - General allow / deny (`can_tag`) - Deleting photos - etc - Creating albums - As children of my own albums - Add / remove photos from album, edit title / desc. - My own albums (`can_edit_album_own`) - Explicit (`can_edit_album:`) - General (`can_edit_album`) - Deleting albums - etc - Creating tags (`can_create_tag`) - Deleting tags (`can_delete_tag`) - Only those that I have created (`can_delete_tag_own`) - Any time vs. only if they are not in use (`can_delete_tag_in_use`) ### Changelog - **[addition]** A new feature was added. - **[bugfix]** Incorrect behavior was fixed. - **[change]** An existing feature was slightly modified or parameters were renamed. - **[cleanup]** Code was improved, comments were added, or other changes with minor impact on the interface. - **[removal]** An old feature was removed.