icoman / PropertiesEditor_v1

Config editor for an Application Web Server

Properties Editor Version 1

This is an application written in Python with wxPython and PythonCard, which work only with Python 2.7 (because of PythonCard).

Because Python 2.7 is obsolete, another version (which work both with Python 2.7 and Python 3.x) of this application will be released soon and will use ged with wxPython Phoenix instead of PythonCard.

This application was created from a need to have a config editor for an Application Web Server written in Python.

A screenshot of application

A document created with this application is a JSON file with data section used as application properties (acces module, DSN, admin notes, user config, config menu, ...) and fields section used as information definition of content of data entries.

The information from fields section is used to render the html web config form editor of Application Web Server.

The default config generated for a web application

{
  "data": {
    "10": {
      "description": "Write here whatever you need to remember about this module",
      "name": "admin notes",
      "posturl": "",
      "type": "textarea",
      "value": ""
    },
    "20": {
      "description": "Data Source Name",
      "name": "DSN",
      "posturl": "",
      "type": "text",
      "value": "protocol://user:password@host/database"
    },
    "30": {
      "description": "Enable or disable module execution",
      "name": "module disabled",
      "posturl": "",
      "type": "checkbox",
      "value": ""
    },
    "40": {
      "description": "Enable acces to user json config file",
      "name": "user config",
      "posturl": "",
      "type": "checkbox",
      "value": ""
    },
    "50": {
      "description": "Show link to module config and user config",
      "name": "config menu",
      "posturl": "",
      "type": "checkbox",
      "value": "yes"
    },
    "60": {
      "description": "List of groups who has acces to module",
      "name": "access module",
      "posturl": "/auth/groups/all",
      "type": "mc",
      "value": [
        "1",
        "2"
      ]
    }
  },
  "fields": {
    "10": [
      "name",
      []
    ],
    "20": [
      "description",
      []
    ],
    "30": [
      "type",
      [
        "text",
        "textarea",
        "password",
        "checkbox",
        "select",
        "mc"
      ]
    ],
    "40": [
      "value",
      []
    ],
    "50": [
      "posturl",
      [
        "",
        "/auth/groups/all",
        "/post1",
        "/post2",
        "/post3"
      ]
    ]
  }
}

which will generate an html web form like this:

The application can also generate a user config

{
  "data": {
    "10": {
      "description": "test property 1",
      "name": "prop1",
      "posturl": "",
      "type": "text",
      "value": ""
    },
    "20": {
      "description": "test property 2",
      "name": "prop2",
      "posturl": "",
      "type": "checkbox",
      "value": ""
    },
    "30": {
      "description": "test property 3",
      "name": "prop3",
      "posturl": "",
      "type": "textarea",
      "value": ""
    }
  },
  "fields": {
    "10": [
      "name",
      []
    ],
    "20": [
      "description",
      []
    ],
    "30": [
      "type",
      [
        "text",
        "textarea",
        "password",
        "checkbox",
        "select",
        "mc"
      ]
    ],
    "40": [
      "value",
      []
    ],
    "50": [
      "posturl",
      [
        "",
        "/auth/groups/all",
        "/post1",
        "/post2",
        "/post3"
      ]
    ]
  }
}

which will generate an html web form like this: