[albatross-users] Simple random mode demo app

[Dave Cole]

> Sorry, the 1st URL should be
> http://mattgoodall.dyndns.org/~matt/albatross/test/test.py.

Had a bit of a play and looked at some of the code.

I very much like the code that transparently handles cgi and
mod_python deployment.  One change though:

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        # CGI entry point
        from albatross.cgiapp import Request
        app = App()
        app.run(Request())
    else:
        # mod_python entry point
        from albatross.apacheapp import Request
        def handler(req):
            app = App()
            return app.run(Request(req))

The mod_python code should be changed to this:

        # mod_python entry point
        from albatross.apacheapp import Request
        app = App()
        def handler(req):
            return app.run(Request(req))

If you instantiate the application once then you get the benefit of
caching of both templates and page modules.

> >       * Using the tree tag to display a categorised view of what's in
> >         the test app.

Nice use of style sheets to indent.

> >       * Custom tags: one that inserts the current time, one that
> >         displays its content in a nicely coloured box and one that
> >         caches the content to disk for a period of time.

The content caching tag is a work of genius.

Maybe you could expand on the idea and implement a content cache mixin
that could be inherited by the application class.  This would then
ensure that the cached content was loaded only once (for mod_python)
applications.

I would love to add a cache like that to Albatross.

- Dave

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