Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed has a web interface - starting today.

[Karsten Hilbert]

This is brilliant !

Even I wouldn't have thought it appears to be that painless.

Karsten

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:29:21PM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> Subject: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed has a web interface - starting today.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> It took 10 hours, cherrypy and some good guessing but now it is there. Let me 
> introduce GNUmed's web interface.
> 
> I have repeated ad nauseum that GNUmed is so cool ( I mean well abstracted) 
> that there should not be any problem ripping out the wxpython interface and 
> replacing that by a web interface. 
> 
> Because I suck at python and web frameworks it took ten hours to complete. I 
> hase used cherrypy and a stock GNUmed. It was not neccessary to add a single 
> line of code apart from a few lines for the html login page. Can you believe 
> that ?
> 
> GNUmed is so nicely seperated that I was able to reuse gmPG2, gmCLI and some 
> more middleware modules without changing any of them. I ripped out gmGuiMain 
> since this is mostly wxpython stuff, stole most of the code from gnumed.py 
> and 
> gmAuthWidgets for the login stuff and put all this in gnumedweb.py.
> 
> What we have got now is a simple website that will ask for the backend 
> profile, the username and the password. It will the connect to a stock gnumed 
> database just as the the wxpython gui would. To prove that I did not make 
> this 
> up it returns the database language for your login and shows it on a webpage.
> 
> Tell you what. If you want to try it install cherrypy for your operating 
> system, replace the original gnumed.py in the wxpython directory by the one I 
> have attached here and run the well know shell script gm-from-vcs.sh just as 
> you would for the wxpython gui. Open a webbrowser and go to 'localhost:8080'. 
> Put in the credentials and observe the output.
> 
> You need to have a version 13 (devel version) database. If you want to try it 
> with a v12 (stable ) database let me know and I will make a small change to 
> gnumed.py.
> 
> What's next ? This is a prototype only. It show that the existing GNUmed code 
> can be reused without rewriting it. One needs python skills and HTML and/or 
> some Javascript skills to hack up a nice user interface. Some Ajax won't hurt 
> either.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sebastian
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