Gaia Preload webapp generation script

Why need Gaia Preload App script

Pre-bundled webapp are not quite the same as usual webapp, since Pre-bundled webapp may be seen before internet is ready. It have to store linked icon to buildin base-64 strings, provide correspondent matadata.json, prefetched appcache..., etc.

Gaia Preload App script provide a preload.py script that help build pre-bundled webapp from a given .webapp URL.

Usage

fetch a single webapp

Find a webapp URL that want to bundled with, and run the command:

$ python preload.py http://<webapp url>

It will generate a folder with target webapp name.

batch process to fetch multiple webapp

You can form a list file that batched the process. The format is

Facebook,http://fa....
Twitter,https://twi....

Put preload.py script with list file in the same folder, then run the command:

$ python preload.py

preload.py script will parse the list file and do the conversion for you.

convert web icon to base64 string

fetch icon from URL and convert it to base64 string

$ python preload.py --icon http://<icon url>

Setup unit test

$ virtualenv .env
$ source .env/bin/activate
$ pip install mock
$ python preload_test.py

Experimental: Minilla web UI

We'd developing the Minilla web UI that help people ease the customization work with web interface.

The Minilla only depends on python, so you can run

$ python wsgi.py

open browser to http://localhost:8000 and use it.