[IPython-dev] listing subfolders in the tree

[Zoltán Vörös]

Hi Matthias,

Thanks for the links, pointers, and suggestions. I will try to sniff around.

Cheers,
Zoltán

On 06/12/13 16:07, Matthias BUSSONNIER wrote:
> Hi Zoltán,
>
> Le 6 déc. 2013 à 13:36, Zoltán Vörös a écrit :
>
>>> Knowing that the dashboard is refreshed often that some people have
>>> notebook on network storage traversing hard-drive recursively is not an
>>> alternative that will be shipped in core.
>> This is a good point, but I don't think that making this configurable
>> would upset anything.
>
> That's configurable. It is probably a DottedObjectName
> Bookstore (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bookstore) is an alternative 
> backend that
> store notebook on RackSpace (and allow versioning)
>
>>
>>> as you are aware master can see content in subfolder
>>> go to
>>>
>>> <domain>/tree/<subfolder>/<subsubfolder>
>>>
>>> and open notebook with
>>>
>>> <domain>/notebook/<subfolder>/<subsubfolder>/<notebook.ipynb>
>>>
>>> The only missing thing is UI , but the full REST URL scheme is ready.
>> Yes, that's true, but then one still has to know the name of the
>> folders. Wouldn't life be much easier, if the folders were served right
>> away?
>
> If by right away you mean list all ipynb in subfolder, it can be 
> problematic.
> Still nothing prevent you to do that.
>
>> And I think, my related suggestion is still valid: if users could tamper
>> with what exactly is served on the dashboard, that would make the
>> front-end quite flexible. One might want to order notebooks by
>> creation/modification date, or size, or whether a notebook has a
>> particular keyword, or I have no idea. The point is that some processing
>> has to be done. I think it would be OK, if these extra options could be
>> passed to the server on the command line. All I am asking for is a means
>> of executing code and inserting the results into the dashboard when the
>> server examines the folder in question. Is that totally unreasonable?
>
> Yes it is reasonable, and we have plan to have a more advanced dashboard.
> The current handler should be TreeHandler in IPython/html/tree/handler.py
>
> Session Api already exposes modified dates act, you can read more here :
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPEP-16%3A-Notebook-multi-directory-dashboard-and-URL-mapping 
> <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPEP-16:-Notebook-multi-directory-dashboard-and-URL-mapping>
>
> The problem is that we have no way (yet) to send configuration to the 
> Javascript Side, even if we would like to.
> Also we would like to avoid reinventing the wheel and use a 
> pre-existing javascript library to handle the browsing client-side.
>
> We in particular also want the ability to chose between different 
> kernel when you start a notebook.
> So we are moving slowly  in this direction.
>
> If you start anything, I would suggest for you to contact Zach Sailer 
> that wrote most part of the REST api
> and have somewhere a Draft Branch of UI where you can open folders, 
> and order things IIRC.
>
> -- 
> M
>
>
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