CherryPy done

The initial stab at implementing a CherryPy server is complete, along with documentation and a sample application to show how to use it. Last Wednesday was largely spent in meetings of various kinds, for a change. Today I'm cleaning up at looking at new projects.

Slow going with CherryPy

Gradually augmenting the interface put up by Georg Stach for his GWT/Java application which uses cherrypy as the RPC server interface to the Cool database. I've been slightly hampered by the fact that: The cherrypy server is only accessible on atlmysql04 and I get thrown out of this machine every time I stop the server. Eventually made an applescript to stop the server, log me back in, start the server and change to the development directory. I've been slow picking up the PyCool methods as well, and the vagaries of different code editors when editing python (aargh, spaces or tabs!! I need a python IDE!) are frustrating. Slow progress, but progress nonetheless: now I know can return proper xml entries for things like cool folder descriptions. 

CherryPy et al.

Past week: Made the XSLT for Luca's XML -> hierarchical XML transformation, and this seems to work on the restructured web interface (reduces the total code to about the quarter of it's original length). Got a CherryPy server going locally and served a demo python application (this is intended as a solution for a COOL database gateway). I sort of managed to get the same thing going behind an apache server, wreaking all kinds of chaos on my httpd.conf file, but the stylesheets somehow went awry.

Today I managed to get Saverio's query tacked onto Luca's original code for the interface. The next step is to make a plot appear in the same interface.