Gaia Preload webapp generation script

Why need Gaia Preload App script

Pre-bundled webapps are not quite the same as usual webapps, since pre-bundled webapps may be seen before internet connectivity.

They have to store linked icons as built-in base-64 strings, provide the corresponding metadata.json, prefetched appcache, etc.

Gaia Preload App script is a preload.py script that helps to build a Pre-bundled webapp from a given .webapp URL.

Find a webapp URL that you want to bundle, and run the command:

$ python preload.py http://<webapp url>

It will generate a folder with target webapp name.

You can form a list file that batched the process. The format is

Facebook,http://fa....
Twitter,https://twi....

Put preload.py script with list file in the same folder, then run the command:

$ python preload.py

preload.py script will parse the list file and do the conversion for you.

You can specify a --root folder in which preload.py will look for the list file and save the preloaded contents.

$ python preload.py --root=~/webapps/

You can specify a --removable to configure removable attrbute in metadata.json. By default removable is False.

$ python preload.py --removable=[true|false]

$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install six

fetch icon from URL and convert it to base64 string

$ python preload.py --icon http://<icon url>

$ virtualenv .env
$ source .env/bin/activate
$ pip install mock
$ python preload_test.py

We'd developing the Minilla web UI that help people ease the customization work with web interface.

The Minilla only depends on python, so you can run

$ python wsgi.py

open browser to http://localhost:8000 and use it.