[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

[Abhishek Kumar]

Hi,

Sorry for the same last 2 mails. Last one was sent accidentally.
Are there any ideas regarding the issues i mentioned in them..? Abhilash..?

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Abhishek Kumar <abhi170893 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks Aanand and Abhilash for the help and suggestions. I need further
> assistance:
>
> I tried to  write the connection class's rough javascript code. It works
> if i bypass the authentication. I have encoded/decoded the authentication
> data correctly ( as seemed from printing them and what python client
> generates through b64encode(auth.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8') ). If
> authentication is allowed, the javascript client shows "401,
> Unauthorized. The REST API requires authentication."
> This happens because the request.auth on line 68 in
> src/mailman/rest/root.py  is None (see in this
> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/3.0/view/head:/src/mailman/rest/root.py> file)
> even when i am passing the authentication data in the http header . However
> there are no issues when i use the python client through shell  and
> everyhing works fine. I was unable to figure out the issue. Any ideas
> regarding what should i do here..? The  js code(uses some nodejs) can be
> seen here <http://pastebin.com/isxPbsNk>.
>
> Also i need some guidance on what should i do now towards applying for
> this project. Should i go on writing the javascript version by discussing
> it with the community..? And regarding what would go into my proposal, my
> current understanding stands at  mainly writing javascript equivalent of
> everything present in _client.py(mailman client) alongwith documentation
> and tetsting. What more is required to be done in this project..?
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Abhilash Raj <raj.abhilash1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Abhishek,
>>
>> On Wednesday 04 March 2015 07:43 PM, Abhishek Kumar wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I was able to setup the mailman (Core, postorius, mailman.client,
>> > postorius_standalone)  by downloading them individually. Also with
>> > superuser, i can create domains. I have some questions:
>> >
>> > 1) When i try to create list i get : HTTP Error 500: A server error
>> > occurred. Please contact the administrator
>>
>> Try to find out what error is raised, check the logs in
>> var/logs/mailman.log . This error is very common due to the absence to
>> postmap command which mailman uses to create postfix maps. Either you
>> can set your mta to nullmta by adding the following in yout mailman.cfg
>> in var/etc/
>>
>> [mta]
>> incoming: mailman.mta.null.NullMTA
>> outgoing: mailman.mta.null.NullMTA
>>
>>
>> or simply install postfix.
>>
>> > 2) Though i am able to create domain using postorius ui, i am unable to
>> do
>> > it by directly using the mailman.client. The development.rst doc says
>> > "python manage.py mmclient" can be used for the purpose. But after doing
>> > this no client object is created.  I also tried tried the way given
>> > mailmanclient/docs/using.rst
>> > <
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman.client/trunk/view/head:/src/mailmanclient/docs/using.rst
>> >
>> >  with
>> > port 8001. This creates client , but that object is unable to talk to
>> the
>> > rest server.
>>
>> Just saying that "object is unable to talk to the rest server" doesn't
>> help. Make a habit of mentioning the complete traceback from logs when
>> you have errors. Do you get a `Mailman API Error`? If yes, check that
>> your mailman is running. If not, start it using `mailman start` command.
>>
>> > 3) Is what i installed using lp:mailman the mailman core..? and this
>> handles
>> > the rest requests..?
>>
>> Yes!
>>
>> > 4) Is there more documentation online other than that available in the
>> doc
>> > folders of the projects..? I searched online but didn't get any
>> developer
>> > type documentation.
>>
>> No, the same documentation is available on readthedocs in a html format.
>>
>> > 5) If i make any changes in the code, what's the best way to make them
>> > reflected in the mailman..? run "python setup.py develop" for that
>> > project..?
>>
>> You don't need to do anything if you ran `python setup.py develop` to
>> set it up first time. If you used `python setup.py install` then you
>> need to run that again to reflect your changes.
>>
>> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Abhilash Raj <raj.abhilash1 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wednesday 04 March 2015 02:01 PM, Abhishek Kumar wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> Using the viurtualenv, i was able to complete the setup guide. But i
>> am
>> >>> required to login at http://localhost:8000/ and there is no option to
>> >>> register. So i logged in using Mozilla persona. But even after that i
>> am
>> >>> not getting any options to create domains and list as described here
>> >>
>> >> Are you using mailman-bundler? It does not work right now! For
>> >> development you'd have to download and setup each projects (Core,
>> >> postorius, mailman.client, postorius_standalone) from launchpad.
>> >>
>> >> Also, only superuser is allowed to create domains. You can create one
>> in
>> >> django (postorius_standalone) using the command:
>> >>
>> >>    $ python manage.py createsuperuser
>> >>
>> >> Then you have to login as a superuser using the login credentials given
>> >> or through persona.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> thanks,
>> >> Abhilash Raj
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> thanks,
>> Abhilash Raj
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Abhishek Kumar
>



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Thanks,
Abhishek Kumar