I think you will need some kind of headless browser to execute the JS on the server. Maybe something like https://github.com/ryanpetrello/python-zombie or http://code.google.com/p/py-webkit-html-manipulator/.
Anthony On Friday, June 29, 2012 5:06:20 PM UTC-4, Andrew wrote: > > Hello, > I have been using the wonderful d3 library with web2 py. See > http://d3js.org/ for more information. But it is aimed at the browser. > It is great to visualise json output from web2py. > > One thing it does is generate svg content. I would like to be able to > generate a png image from the svg definition, but on the server. I know > it's possible with phantom.js and node.js (from another group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!topic/d3-js/XHbidy5pY8A), > but I'm not sure if they fit into a web2py context, or if that is the > right approach with web2py. Does something like a "Headless web kit > browser" fit into web2py approach? > . > I'm wondering is it possible, using something like response.render to > generate the svg in a controller and generate a png image (which I could > save or include in PDF output). Would I include these other libraries, but > where, in the view? > > Anyway, I think d3 is fantastic and it would be great to be able to > exploit it (more!) in web2py. Happy to put up some simple examples that > show how to do it (the browser part at least) > > Thanks > >
