Variable Schema Proof of Concept

This project is about implementing user-defined schemas using mongodb and either python or NodeJS.

#Setup You must install mongodb and python 2.7 (should be installed already if you're running OSX), and then you have to perform database setup. Simply run mongo dbsetup.js on your local installation (assuming that you've got no permissions restrictions in place) to preconfigure the database.

##Python

The python project has the following dependencies (installed via pip):

• pymongo
• flask

Once you've installed the proper packages, you can run the application using python app.py

###About the Python Implementation

Most of the real stuff is in varies.py and app.py. varies.py contains an interface for mongodb and arranges the construction of the database objects. app.py uses routing to determine which operation is being performed.

###Testing

1. Run the app
2. Go to http://localhost:5000/ and add a new schema
3. Browse to http://localhost:5000/new/<schema_name> and fill out the form
4. Click the Add Entry Button on the Entry adding page
5. Click the "Go To Objects" Link at the bottom of the page
6. Click on one of the created object links on the "Objects" Page

Note: I am going to flesh out the back half (which is loading the records based on the associated schema, but more on that later)

##NodeJS

This section will show up in a bit once I've implemented the Node version of this proof-of-concept