Giotto is a python web framework. It encourages a functional style where model, view and controller code is strongly decoupled.
Key Features of Giotto include:
- Extremely terse code. A full featured blog application is under 300 lines of code (including templates)
- Generic views, generic models and multiple pluggable controllers.
- Free RESTful interface along with your normal "browser POST" CRUD site.
- Functional CRUD patterns that do away with the need for django-style form objects.
- Automatic URL routing.
- Built in cache (supports Redis and Memcache, and an API for supporting any other engines)
- SQLAlchemy for database persistence.
- Jinja2 for HTML templates (with an API for extending for other template engines)
Install and create base project files:
pip install giotto
mkdir demo
giotto --httpNow your project is initialized. Open the manifest.py and add the following:
from giotto.programs import ProgramManifest, GiottoProgram
from giotto.views import jinja_template, BasicView
def multiply(x, y):
x = int(x or 0)
y = int(y or y)
return {'x': x, 'y': y, 'result': x * y}
manifest = ProgramManifest({
'multiply': GiottoProgram(
model=[multiply],
view=BasicView(
html=jinja_template('multiply.html'),
),
),
})Now create a file called multiply.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
{{ data.x }} * {{ data.y }} == <strong>{{ data.result }}</strong>
</body>
</html>Or if you're too lazy to make a template, set the view keyword argument to just BasicView() to use the generic view.
Run the development server:
$ ./http --runPoint your browser to http://localhost:5000/multiply?x=3&y=3. Additionaly, try http://localhost:5000/multiply.json?x=3&y=3. You can also invoke your multiply program through the command line:
$ giotto --cmd
$ ./cmd multiply --x=4 --y=2Also:
$ ./cmd multiply.html --x=4 --y=2You can also use positional arguments:
$ ./cmd multiply/4/6Links:
- To discuss Giotto, please visit the Google Group
- Read Giotto's documentation.
- Check out giottoblog, a full featured blog application written with the Giotto framework.