Again news from my gallery project - it's making good progress, even if some of my latest stuff isn't directly visible. I did a lot of reworking in the code and a lot of admin interface changes. Things in the source that might be interesting for other djangonistas:
- I still have a fully filesystem based gallery - but I added a database stored cache. So now when contents is pulled from the filesystem, the code directly checks with it's database cache and updates that accordingly. This led to a heavy rework of the code so that now actually all stuff is driven by model objects - the cache entries are just part of the django model. Makes code much easier and allows the next two changes.
- I added an automatic sitemap for galleries. First versions traversed the filesystem, but now it just uses the database cache to draw a folder hierarchy with thumbnails.
- I added RSS support. The main gallery selection references a RSS feed over all galleries and the folder and image views within a gallery reference a RSS feed only for images within that gallery. This makes use of the RSS framework of Django.
- the view that showed gallery folders and images was reworked to make much more use of django-like stuff: instead of lazy closures that are passed in to the template, I now use custom templates that help to reduce the code of the view drastically (ok, the code is moved to the taglib, but that's much better decoupling than before).
The result: the gallery is much faster, I have RSS up and running and I have automatic sitemaps. The code itself is much easier as it is more model-driven - the former clash between picturefolder model stuff on the one side and FSObject instances on the other side ist gone - and cache maintenance is automatic. And the XMLRPC integration is much faster, too. All in all some very useful internal changes.
Other changes are in the management interface where you now not only have the AJAX-stuff to change object names and hidden state, but can do that from a filemanager, too. That filemanager will be extended for simple management functions like moving, deleting etc., too. It already is able to create new folders.
