[Freeipa-devel] Announcing wehjit 0.2.0

[Jason Gerard DeRose]

Whats new
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This release adds significant client-side functionality and several new
widgets.  The Python API remains mostly unchanged, with the exception of
one major addition: you can now make any state variable available
client-side by simply creating the state descriptor with a `json=True`
kwarg.

For example, say you have a widget with a state variable called `stuff`:

    class MyWidget(wehjit.Widget):
        stuff = wejhit.Static('stuff')

To make `stuff` available client-side, just add `json=True` like this:

    class MyWidget(wehjit.Widget):
        stuff = wejhit.Static('stuff', json=True)

As far as new widgets, highlights include:

 * Grid: an AJAX table with client-side sorting, row select (click) and
   activate (double click) events, and asynchronous updates via
   JSON-RPC.

 * Dialog: a generic widget for transient client-side dialog boxes.

 * DialogSet: controls the available Dialogs in a page.

 * CRUDS: works in combination with Grid, Dialog, and DialogSet for AJAX
   Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, and Search operations.

There is likewise quite a bit of new supporting JavaScript for the above
widgets.

The demo has a new "AJAX Demo" example.  However, as CRUDS must talk to
a live JSON-RPC server, it doesn't work in the statically rendered demo.
But you can run the demo from the source tree like this:

    ./wehjit-demo

Then just point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8080/e4_grid

Lastly, the Menu widget has changed and wont display the MenuItems till
you click on the Menu (previously it displayed on mouse over).


Download
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The source tarball, API documentation, and statically rendered demo are
all available here:

    http://jderose.fedorapeople.org/wehjit/0.2.0/

Updated packages for Fedora 12 and rawhide will be available in the next
several days (yum install python-wehjit).

An unofficial Ubuntu Karmic package is available in my PPA (apt-get
install python-wehjit):

    https://edge.launchpad.net/~jderose/+archive/ppa

Finally, you can use Bazaar to get my current code from either my
fedorapeople page:

    bzr branch http://jderose.fedorapeople.org/bzr/wehjit/

Or from Launchpad:

    bzr branch lp:wehjit