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Design
==========

Following is a quick overview of our wiki application, to help
us understand the changes that we will be doing next in our
default files generated by the ``zodb`` scafffold.

Overall
-------

We choose to use ``reStructuredText`` markup in the wiki text.
Translation from reStructuredText to HTML is provided by the
widely used ``docutils`` Python module.  We will add this module
in the dependency list on the project ``setup.py`` file.

Models
------

The root resource, named *Wiki*, will be a mapping of wiki page
names to page resources.  The page resources will be instances
of a *Page* class and they store the text content.

URLs like ``/PageName`` will be traversed using  Wiki[
*PageName* ] => page, and the context that results is the page
resource of an existing page.

To add a page to the wiki, a new instance of the page resource
is created and its name and reference are added to the Wiki
mapping.

A page named *FrontPage* containing the text *This is the front
page*, will be created when the storage is initialized, and will
be used as the wiki home page.

Views
-----

There will be four views to handle the normal operations of
viewing, editing and adding wiki pages.  Two additional views
will handle the login and logout tasks related to security.

Security
--------

We'll eventually be adding security to our application.  The components we'll
use to do this are below.

- USERS, a dictionary mapping users names to their
  corresponding passwords.

- GROUPS, a dictionary mapping user names to a 
  list of groups they belong to.

- *groupfinder*, an *authorization callback* that looks up
  USERS and GROUPS.  It will be provided in a new
  *security.py* file.

- An :term:`ACL` is attached to the root resource.  Each
  row below details an :term:`ACE`:

  +----------+----------------+----------------+
  | Action   | Principal      | Permission     |
  +==========+================+================+
  | Allow    | Everyone       | View           |
  +----------+----------------+----------------+
  | Allow    | group:editors  | Edit           |
  +----------+----------------+----------------+

- Permission declarations are added to the views to assert the security
  policies as each request is handled.


Summary
-------

The URL, context, actions, template and permission associated to each view are
listed in the following table:

+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+------------+------------+
| URL                  |  View       |  Context        |  Action               |  Template  | Permission |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
+======================+=============+=================+=======================+============+============+
| /                    |  view_wiki  |  Wiki           |  Redirect to          |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  /FrontPage           |            |            |
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+------------+------------+
| /PageName            |  view_page  |  Page           |  Display existing     |  view.pt   |  view      |
|                      |  [1]_       |                 |  page [2]_            |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+------------+------------+
| /PageName/edit_page  |  edit_page  |  Page           |  Display edit form    |  edit.pt   |  edit      |
|                      |             |                 |  with existing        |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  content.             |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  If the form was      |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  submitted, redirect  |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  to /PageName         |            |            |
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+------------+------------+
| /add_page/PageName   |  add_page   |  Wiki           |  Create the page      |  edit.pt   |  edit      |
|                      |             |                 |  *PageName* in        |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  storage,  display    |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  the edit form        |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  without content.     |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  If the form was      |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  submitted,           |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  redirect to          |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  /PageName            |            |            |
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+------------+------------+
| /login               |  login      |  Wiki,          |  Display login form.  |  login.pt  |            |
|                      |             |  Forbidden [3]_ |                       |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  If the form was      |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  submitted,           |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  authenticate.        |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  - If authentication  |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |    successful,        |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |    redirect to the    |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |    page that we       |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |    came from.         |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  - If authentication  |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |    fails, display     |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |    login form with    |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |    "login failed"     |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |    message.           |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |                       |            |            |
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+------------+------------+
| /logout              |  logout     |  Wiki           |  Redirect to          |            |            |
|                      |             |                 |  /FrontPage           |            |            |
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+------------+------------+

.. [1] This is the default view for a Page context
       when there is no view name.
.. [2] Pyramid will return a default 404 Not Found page
       if the page *PageName* does not exist yet.
.. [3] pyramid.exceptions.Forbidden is reached when a
       user tries to invoke a view that is
       not authorized by the authorization policy.