Sections
This chapter covers the libraries that GNU MediaGoblin uses as well as various recipes for getting things done.
Note
This chapter is in flux. Clearly there are things here that aren’t documented. If there’s something you have questions about, please ask!
See the join page on the website for where we hang out.
For more information on how to get started hacking on GNU MediaGoblin, see the wiki, and specifically, go through the Hacking HOWTO which explains generally how to get going with running an instance for development.
After you’ve run checked out mediagoblin and followed the virtualenv instantiation instructions, you’re faced with the following directory tree:
mediagoblin/
|- mediagoblin/ # source code
| |- db/ # database setup
| |- tools/ # various utilities
| |- init/ # "initialization" tools (arguably should be in tools/)
| |- tests/ # unit tests
| |- templates/ # templates for this application
| |- media_types/ # code for processing, displaying different media
| |- storage/ # different storage backends
| |- gmg_commands/ # command line tools (./bin/gmg)
| |- themes/ # pre-bundled themes
| |
| | # ... some submodules here as well for different sections
| | # of the application... here's just a few
| |- auth/ # authentication (login/registration) code
| |- user_dev/ # user pages (under /u/), including media pages
| \- submit/ # submitting media for processing
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|- docs/ # documentation
|- devtools/ # some scripts for developer convenience
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|- user_dev/ # local instance sessions, media, etc
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| # the below directories are installed into your virtualenv checkout
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|- bin/ # scripts
|- develop-eggs/
|- lib/ # python libraries installed into your virtualenv
|- include/
|- mediagoblin.egg-info/
\- parts/
As you can see, all the code for GNU MediaGoblin is in the mediagoblin directory.
Here are some interesting files and what they do:
routing.py: | maps url paths to views |
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views.py: | views handle http requests |
forms.py: | wtforms stuff for this submodule |
You’ll notice that there are several sub-directories: tests, templates, auth, submit, ...
tests holds the unit test code.
templates holds all the templates for the output.
auth and submit are modules that enacpsulate authentication and media item submission. If you look in these directories, you’ll see they have their own routing.py, view.py, and forms.py in addition to some other code.
You’ll also notice that mediagoblin/db/ contains quite a few things, including the following:
models.py: | This is where the database is set up |
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mixin.py: | Certain functions appended to models from here |
migrations.py: | When creating a new migration (a change to the database structure), we put it here |