Gramex 1.43 Release Notes

FormHandler Edits Modify

FormHandler Edit methods now supports modify: method. For PUT, POST, etc, methods now you can run an action AFTER the edit action.

Below configuration has two modify: – which are called after edit operation.

formhandler-edits-multidata-modify:
  pattern: /$YAMLURL/edits-multidata-modify
  handler: FormHandler
  kwargs:
    csv:
      url: $YAMLPATH/sales-edits.csv
      encoding: utf-8
      id: [city, product]
      modify: emailer.send
    sql:
      url: mysql+pymysql://root@$MYSQL_SERVER/DB?charset=utf8
      table: sales
      id: [city, product]
    modify: emailer.sendall

modify: can be any expression/function that uses data – count of records edited and handler – handler.args contains data submitted by the user.

Developer Updates

• For Chrome CaptureHandler – you can now specify
  • width=: viewport width in pixels. (Default: 1200px). Only for Chrome
  • height=: viewport height in pixels. (Default: 768px). Only for Chrome
  • media=: print or screen. Defaults to screen. Only for Chrome

This also fixes responsive layouts in PDF and PNG downloads.

• Chrome CaptureHandler which depends on puppeteer is now upgraded to version ^1.8.0. This fixes #505

Bug fixes

• Admin app earlier was failing when imported under a namespace. This is now fixed. #500
• Multiple namespace imports were not currenlt prefixed. Supportting lists in import path (with namespace) was needed. This is now plugged. #502

Stats

• Code base: 28,057 lines (python: 16,890, javascript: 1,793, tests: 9,374)
• Test coverage: 79%

Upgrade

Note: gramex >= 1.41 onwards requires Anaconda >= 5.2.0

To upgrade Gramex, run:

pip install --verbose gramex==1.43

To upgrade apps dependencies, run:

gramex setup --all

This downloads Chromium and other front-end dependencies. That may take time.