CherryPy Essentials Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• 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