Excerpts from Leon van der Ree's message of Fri May 20 11:21:15 -0300 2011: > Hi all,
Hi, > First a short intro, since this is my first post > > Last few years I have been working on and with Symfony (Php) a lot, > but since I am done with the ugly bugs within Php I decided to switch > to another development environment. I have always been interested in > other languages and frameworks and Python and Django always looked > very promising to me. Now that I have a new job I was able to make > this switch so I dived into Python and Django. I think I now have a > basic understanding of how to optimally use the dynamic capabilities > of Python (something that you can't properly meke use of in Php if you > ask me) and I understand the design of Django. Untill now all seems > brilliant! Welcome! > My first assignment in Django is to develop a social-media powered > website, so I started to explore the community plugins but now got a > bit disappointed. I haven't found anything that is capable to handle > several different social networks. Am I missing something or isn't it > there yet? > > So far I found several social-authorization applications, but most of > them where tightly coupled with the social networks they can handle so > there is no easy way of adding different networks from outside the > application (by E.G. adding an extra application for another network > and provide it to the generic-app through your project > configuration). > Other social media plugins that I found are capable of doing more than > only authorization, but are build specifically for one social network. > Django is so nicely organised, and capable of being extended with all > kind of functionality, so I would have expect social-media apps that > where designed this way as well? You might have found http://github.com/omab/django-social-auth/ already, as you can see it's easy to extend adding more and more authentication backends, they can be on a separated module even. But, it only take care of authentication, that's because there are plenty of projects that handle user data retrieval and each project have different needs. And I prefer the do-one-single-thing principle. Anyway It's easy to extend using the defined signals, there you can easily retrieve user data from the different social-media sites. > My idea of a social media application is that it should be extendable > and capable of doing more than only handling authorisation. Depending > on the social network you have more or less functionality that can be > used. E.G. Facebook and Twitter both support posting messages, but > only Facebook supports liking things. But you have thinkgs like Orkut > (and in Holland Hyves) as well, which could make use of the same > generic interface to support like-ing and sending messages, while > others, like e.g. gmail only support authorisation. This could be a interesting side project, but it should do only that, no more IMO. > I think there can be a generic interface with functionality and > specialised classes per social network that implement this > functionality. Than in your project settings you should be able to > simply (configure and) enable these networrks.These specialised > classes for all the different networks can be provided in different > apps, so anyone can build new connections without modifying the > generic social-app. In these specialised apps you can choose how to > implement the connection to the network yourself (use the entire > python facebook library, or write a custom facebook authroisation > module yourself). I think a good base for this is the implementation > of django-allauth although it currently has some hardcoded > configuration (urls, templatetags, etc) and is limited to only > authorisation. > > Any feedback about this would be greatly appreciated! > Leon Thanks, Matías -- Matías Aguirre <matiasagui...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
