CherryPy Essentials: Rapid Python Web Application Development Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to CherryPy
Chapter 2: Download and Install CherryPy
Chapter 3: Overview of CherryPy
Chapter 4: CherryPy in Depth
Chapter 5: A Photoblog Application
Chapter 6: Web Services
Chapter 7: The Presentation Layer
Chapter 8: Ajax
Chapter 9: Testing
Chapter 10: Deployment
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to CherryPy
  • Overview
  • History of CherryPy
  • The Community
  • CherryPy Project Strengths
  • Beyond CherryPy
  • Through the Book
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Download and Install CherryPy
  • Requirements
  • Overview
  • Installation from a Tarball
  • Installation through Easy Install
  • Installation from Subversion
  • Testing your Installation
  • Keeping CherryPy Up to Date
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Overview of CherryPy
  • Vocabulary
  • Basic Example
  • Built-In HTTP Server
  • Internal Engine
  • Configuration
  • Object Publisher Engine
  • Library
    • The Autoreload Feature
    • The Caching Module
    • The Coverage Module
    • The Encoding/Decoding Module
    • The HTTP Module
    • The Httpauth Module
    • The Profiler Module
    • The Sessions Module
    • The Static Module
    • The Tidy Module
    • The Wsgiapp Module
    • The XML-RPC Module
  • Tools
  • Error and Exception Handling
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: CherryPy in Depth
  • HTTP Compliance
  • Multiple HTTP Servers
  • Multi-Threaded Application Server
  • URI Dispatching
    • HTTP Method Dispatcher
    • Routes Dispatcher
    • Virtual Host Dispatcher
  • Hook into CherryPy's Core Engine
  • CherryPy Toolbox
    • Basic Authentication Tool
    • Caching Tool
    • Decoding Tool
    • Digest Authentication Tool
    • Encode Tool
    • Error Redirect Tool
    • Etag Tool
    • Gzip Tool
    • Ignore Headers Tool
    • Log Headers Tool
    • Log Tracebacks Tool
    • Proxy Tool
    • Referer Tool
    • Response Headers Tool
    • Trailing Slash Tool
    • XML-RPC Tool
    • Toolbox
    • Creating a Tool
  • Static Resource Serving
    • Using the Staticfile Tool to Serve a Single File
    • Using the Staticdir Tool to Serve a Complete Directory
    • Bypassing Static Tools to Serve Static Content
  • WSGI Support
    • Hosting a WSGI Application within the CherryPy WSGI Server
    • Hosting a CherryPy WSGI Application within a Third-Party WSGI Server
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: A Photoblog Application
  • A Photoblog Application
  • Photoblog Entities
  • Vocabulary
  • DBMSes Overview
    • Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
    • Object-Oriented Database Management System (OODBMS)
    • XML Database Management System (XMLDBMS)
  • Object-Relational Mapping
    • Python Object-Relational Mappers
  • Photoblog Application Entity Modeling
    • Mapping Entities
    • Units and UnitProperties
    • Associating Units
    • The Sandbox Interface
  • Querying Units
  • Extending the Data Access Layer
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Web Services
  • Traditional Web Development
    • Separation of Concerns
  • REST
  • Uniform Resource Identifier
  • HTTP Methods
  • Putting it Together
  • REST Interface through CherryPy
  • Atom Publishing Protocol
  • Atom XML-Document Format
  • APP Implementation
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: The Presentation Layer
  • HTML
  • XML
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • DHTML
  • Templating
  • Kid—The Templating Engine
    • Overview
    • Kid's Attributes
      • XML-Based Templating Language
      • Variable Substitution
      • Conditional Statement
      • Looping Mechanism
      • Extensibility
      • Other Attributes
  • Photoblog Design Preparation
    • Targetting the User Agent
    • Tools
    • Global Design Goals
    • Design Directory Layout
    • CherryPy—Encapsulating the Template Rendering Process
  • Photoblog Design in Detail
    • Basic Structure
  • Mochikit
  • Developing the Photoblog Design
    • HTML Code
    • Adding a Link
    • Handling the End-User Actions
    • Amending the Template
    • Amending the CSS
    • Let's be More Flexible...
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Ajax
  • Rise of the Rich-Client Applications
  • Ajax
    • Ajax—Advantages and Drawbacks
    • Behind the Scene: XMLHttpRequest
      • Performing a GET Request
      • Performing a Content-Negotiated GET Request
      • Performing a POST Request
      • Performing PUT, HEAD, or DELETE Requests
      • Cookies
      • Authentication using Digest or Basic Schemes
  • JSON
  • Applying Ajax to our Application
    • Defining the Required Namespaces
    • Implementing Namespaces
    • Adding Methods to the Classes
    • Method to Create a New Album
    • Method to Update an Existing Album
    • Method to Delete an Existing Album
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Testing
  • Why Testing
  • Planning a Test
  • Common Testing Approach
  • Unit Testing
    • unittest
    • doctest
  • Unit Testing Web Applications
  • Performance and Load Testing
  • Functional Testing
    • Application under Test
      • Selenium Core
      • Selenium IDE
      • Selenium Remote Control
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Deployment
  • Configuration
    • CherryPy—Web and Engine Configuration System
    • Photoblog Application Configuration System
  • Deployment
    • Apache with mod_rewrite Module
    • Lighttpd with mod_proxy Module
    • Apache with mod_python Module
    • mod_python with WSGI Application
  • SSL
    • Creating a Certificate and a Private Key
      • Using the CherryPy SSL Support
      • Using the lighttpd SSL Support
      • Using the Apache mod_ssl Support
  • Summary

• Index

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