File formats¶

Configuration format¶

Basically configuration format is a list of key-value pairs, where each pair should be located on a separate line, like this:

title: Some title
author: Some author

It can contain different data formats, namely:

list
```
key: [list, of, values]
```
dictionary
```
key: {key: value, key: value}
```
date
```
key: date: yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS
```
This format is currently the only one which is supported.

boolean value

 key: true
 key: false

Case insensitive, with possible values for ``True``: `true`, `yes`,
`on`. For ``False``: `false`, `no`, `off`.

Everything else is a string, with an exception for fields with name date - value of those are checked to be a date value. In other case, string is returned.

Template formats¶

Jinja2 is used as a template engine, so basic template (leading to identification of page as Page object) is a Jinja2 template, which extends parent template.

Every Jinja2 template in Cyrax can use {% meta %} ... {% endmeta %} tag, which should contain text in Configuration format, setting up and overrding options for current page.

Parent template¶

Each entry has a parent_html, from which it will be inherited. It is determined by model name, as _<lowered model name>.html. In case it does not exist, _base.html is used (can be overridden, see parent_tmpl in Configuration).

Models¶

There are few models for different templates coming with Cyrax predefined, and you can define your own using a sitecallback Configuration variable by adding new models to cyraxlib.models.TYPE_LIST.

Models are just descendants of an object, defining py:classmethod:check(entry) which should determine if passed entry is an instance of a given model. Another requirement is py:method:get_relative_url(), which should return URL where rendered entry will be located, relative to site root.

Common configuration variables:

isdir (default: True) - should current entry be rendered as a directory with index.html inside or a simple file.
type (default: None) - predefine type of current entry, without running check() from every model.

NonHTML¶

Model for entries whose extension doesn’t end with .html, usually last of models in TYPE_LIST. isdir returns False by default.

Page¶

Page is a model for single html pages and it’s check() returns True if path ends with .html. Does nothing special.

Post¶

Model for a blog post, determined by checking if it’s name is prepended with a date (either separated by dashes or by slashes, f.e. ‘blog/2010/03-14-some-post.html’).

Special behavior contains adding itself to a sorted collection of posts on a Site object (site.posts) and by adding tag from tags to a sorted collection of tags on Site object (site.tags).

Configuration variables:

tags (default: []) - list of tag names.

Tag¶

Entry for a tag. Most of the special behavior is done by adding an event handler to site-travered signal, which adds virtual pages for tags.