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Egg cooking
Since Trac 0.9 it has been possible to write plugins for Trac to extend Trac functionality. Even better, you can deploy plugins as Python eggs that really makes plugin development fun.
This tutorial shows how to make an egg, successfully load an egg in Trac and in advanced topics how to serve templates and static content from an egg.
You should be familiar with component architecture and plugin development. This plugin is based on example in that plugin development article we just extend it a bit further.
Required items
First you need setuptools. For instructions and files see EasyInstall page.
Then you need of course Trac 0.9. Currently, it means source checkout from Subversion repository. Instructions for getting it done are located at TracDownload page.
Directories
To develop a plugin you need to create few directories to keep things together.
So let's create following directories:
./helloworld-plugin/ ./helloworld-plugin/helloworld/ ./helloworld-plugin/TracHelloworld.egg-info/
Main plugin
First step is to generate main module for this plugin. We will construct simple plugin that will display "Hello world!" on screen when accessed through /helloworld URL. Plugin also provides "Hello" button that is by default rendered on far right in main navigation bar.
So create helloworld.py in ./helloworld-plugin/helloworld/:
# Helloworld plugin from trac.core import * from trac.web.chrome import INavigationContributor from trac.web.main import IRequestHandler from trac.util import escape class UserbaseModule(Component): implements(INavigationContributor, IRequestHandler) # INavigationContributor methods def get_active_navigation_item(self, req): return 'helloworld' def get_navigation_items(self, req): yield 'mainnav', 'helloworld', '<a href="%s">Hello</a>' \ % escape(self.env.href.helloworld()) # IRequestHandler methods def match_request(self, req): return req.path_info == '/helloworld' def process_request(self, req): req.send_response(200) req.send_header('Content-Type', 'text/plain') req.end_headers() req.write('Hello world!')
Make it as a module
Since this is not enough, we need to make our simple plugin as a module. To do so, you simply create that magic __init__.py into ./helloworld-plugin/helloworld/:
# Helloworld module from helloworld import *
Make it as an egg
Now it's time to make it as an egg. For that we need a chicken called setup.py that is created into ./helloworld-plugin/:
from setuptools import setup PACKAGE = 'TracHelloworld' VERSION = '0.1' setup(name=PACKAGE, version=VERSION, packages=['helloworld'])
To make egg loadable in Trac we need to create one file more. in ./helloworld-plugin/TracHelloworld.egg-info/ create file trac_plugin.txt:
helloworld
First deployment
Now you could try to build your first plugin. Run command python setup.py bdist_egg
in directory where you created it. If everthing went OK you should have small .egg file in ./dist directory.
Copy this .egg file to /[your trac env]/plugins directory. If you're using mod_python you have to restart Apache.
Now you should see Hello link at far right in main navigation bar when accessing your site. Click it.
Aftermath
Now you have successfully created your first egg. You can continue now reading EggCookingTutorial/AdvancedEggCooking to really integrate plugin into Trac layout.
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helloworld-plugin-1.tar.gz (775 bytes) - added by 19 years ago.
First version of tutorial plugin
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helloworld-plugin-1-trac-0.9.5.tar.gz (774 bytes) - added by 18 years ago.
Tutorial files, updated for Trac 0.9.5
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