doc/index.rst
author Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@logilab.fr>
Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:24:53 +0200
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Account for new psycopg2 exception classes mapping From psycopg2 >= 2.8, specific exceptions are raised corresponding to postgresql errors. E.g. a CheckViolation exception is raised instead of a generic IntegrityError previously when a constraint violation occurs. The way we intercept database errors, especially for constraint violation, is not compliant with that because we do not catch subclasses of IntegrityError in native source's doexec() method. We fix this by checking for the presence of IntegrityError error in exception class's mro. This is still overcomplicated and clumsy, because we still use string comparison, but this is the best we can do as far as I know. (A better fix would be 'isinstance(ex, IntegrityError)' but we have no engine-independent error classes, so this is not possible. Something like sqlalchemy's DBAPI Errors [1] might help: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/errors.html#dbapi-errors)

=====================================================
|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, Subversion 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_


.. _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

    book/en/devweb/js_api/index

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

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

    How to contribute to the code base <https://hg.logilab.org/master/cubicweb/file/tip/README#l39>
    General contribution guide for cubes <https://www.logilab.org/Card/contributing>
    dev/*

Indexes
~~~~~~~

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