doc/index.rst
author Laurent Wouters <lwouters@cenotelie.fr>
Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:34:07 +0100
changeset 12931 6eae252361e5
parent 12863 f725078656bd
permissions -rw-r--r--
[rql] Store selected variables for RQL select queries in ResultSet (#17218476) By storing the name of the selected variables for RQL select queries in the ResultSet (within the "variables" attribute), the information can be passed down to specific protocols, e.g. rqlio that may wish to pass is down further to clients. In turn, clients can then choose to present the results of RQL select queries as symbolic bindings using the names used in the query's projection, instead of ordinal arrays.

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|cubicweb| - The Semantic Web is a construction game!
=====================================================

|cubicweb| is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL,
that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing
components (called `cubes`) and following the well known object-oriented design
principles.

Main Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* an engine driven by the explicit :ref:`data model
  <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationDataModel>` of the application,

* a query language named :ref:`RQL <RQL>` similar to W3C's SPARQL,

* a :ref:`selection+view <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationCustomViews>`
  mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,

* a library of reusable :ref:`components <Cube>` (data model and views) that
  fulfill common needs,

* the power and flexibility of the Python_ programming language,

* the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories and Mercurial
  for storage backends.

Built since 2000 from an R&D effort still continued, supporting 100,000s of
daily visits at some production sites, |cubicweb| is a proven end to end solution
for semantic web application development that promotes quality, reusability and
efficiency.

QuickStart
~~~~~~~~~~

The impatient developer will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv` then to :ref:`ConfigEnv`.

Social
~~~~~~

*   Chat on the `jabber forum`_
*   Discuss on the `mailing-list`_
*   Discover on the `blog`_
*   Contribute on the forge_
*   Find published python modules on `pypi <https://pypi.org/search/?q=cubicweb>`_
*   Find published npm modules on `npm <https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=keywords:cubicweb>`_


.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _`jabber forum`: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6718
.. _`mailing-list`: http://lists.cubicweb.org/mailman/listinfo/cubicweb
.. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/blog/1238


Narrative Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A.k.a. "The Book"

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   book/intro/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   tutorials/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   book/devrepo/index
   book/devweb/index
   book/pyramid/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   book/admin/index
   book/additionnal_services/index
   book/annexes/index



Changes
~~~~~~~

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   changes/changelog


Reference documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

API
'''

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :glob:

    api/*

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :glob:

    js_api/*

Developpers
~~~~~~~~~~~

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :glob:

    How to contribute to the code base <https://hg.logilab.org/master/cubicweb/file/tip/README#l56>
    General contribution guide for cubes <https://www.logilab.org/Card/contributing>
    Priorities are discussed over on the development dashboard <https://www.cubicweb.org/card/cw-dev-board>
    dev/*

Indexes
~~~~~~~

* the :ref:`genindex`,
* the :ref:`modindex`,