Djang0byte

Lightweight social networks engine written in python+django, that aims to bear great workloads. Features:

• Tree comments with rating;
• Blogs that contain posts, have their own rating, which in turn affects owner's rating;
• Posts (articles) with rating and tags;
• Notify system with last action feed;
• Private messages;
• Full text search;
• Code highlighting.

Install

For install copy settings/dist.py to settings/local.py, set db settings and run deploy.py.

Using VirtualEnv

To use virtualenv with Djang0byte you can do the following:

• Create a virtual environment, e.g.:

  $ virtualenv /var/tmp/djang0byte-env
  

• Configure database in settings/local.py as stated above, e.g.:

  DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'
  DATABASE_NAME = '/var/tmp/djang0byte.sqlite3'
  

• Make sure that xapian module is available in the virtual environment (it is not available on PyPI), e.g.:

  $ ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian/ /var/tmp/djang0byte-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
  

• Switch to the virtual environment:

  $ . /var/tmp/djang0byte-env/bin/activate
  

• Deploy all required components:

  $ python deploy.py
  

Here it is!

RPC API

Interface -- /json/

Objects

Post

• author -- User
• title -- unicode
• date -- datetime
• blog -- Blog
• rate -- int
• rate_count -- int

Draft

• author -- User
• title -- unicode
• blog -- Blog

Blog

• name -- unicode
• description -- unicode
• rate -- int
• rate_count -- int

Comment

• post -- Post
• text -- unicode
• rate -- int
• rate_count -- int
• created -- datetime

Methods

• main.rate_post(id=int, value=bool) -> {error=str} -- Rate post
• main.rate_comment(id=int, value=bool) -> {error=str} -- Rate comment
• main.rate_blog(id=int, value=bool) -> {error=str} -- Rate blog
• main.preview_comment(text=unicode) -> {text=unicode} -- Get comment preview
• main.change_favourite(post_id=int) -> Post -- change favourite
• main.change_spy(post_id=int) -> Post -- change spy
• main.get_last_comments(count=int, panel=bool) -> [Comment] -- Get last comments
• main.get_last_posts(count=int, panel=bool) -> [Post] -- Get last posts
• main.get_users(count=int, panel=bool) -> [User] -- Get users
• main.get_blogs(count=int, panel=bool) -> [Blog] -- Get blogs
• main.get_favourites(count=int, panel=bool) -> [Post] -- Get favourites
• main.get_spies(count=int, panel=bool) -> [Post] -- Get spied posts
• main.get_drafts(count=int, panel=bool) -> [Draft] -- Get drafts
• main.join_blog(blog_id=int) -> {status=bool} -- Join or withdraw blog
• main.post_options(post_id=int, disable_rate=bool, disable_reply=bool, pinch=bool) -> Post -- Change post options