Scope

Tornado-ExtJS-glue provides kickstart environment to write an ExtJS applications powered by a Tornado web server. It gives you bases classes to implement backend RESTfull APIs on top of tornado's scalable architecture and flexibility of SQLAlchemy models.

What's inside

teg.controller

• read requests data as json and create or update models directly with JSON
• apply server-side sorting, filtering and paging as needed
• send object to ExtJS store to be used as models in your js app without effort
• serialize your server side exceptions to js app, so it can give user valid messages
• helper decorators such as @jsonify and @authenticated aware of ExtJS formats and your ui/api prefixes

teg.model

• automatically serialize SQLAlchemy models into json used by ExtJS
• automatically update models from json
• provide facility to control server-side sorting/filtering

teg.exc

• base exception class capable of translation into json data for ExtJS exception handlers
• classes for various server side exceptions such as NotFound, Unauthorized and BadArguments

How to use it

Check out example folder for a working example of a ExtJS application and RESTfull API endpoints. Note that the ExtJS framework in not included. Simply copy ext-all-debug.js, ext-all.js and resources folder to static folder in example and start an app with python app.py -d