Spring Python is an offshoot of the Java-based Spring Framework and Spring Security, targeted for Python. This project currently contains the following features:
- Inversion Of Control (dependency injection) – use either classic XML, or the python @Object decorator (similar to the Spring JavaConfig subproject) to wire things together. While the @Object format isn’t identical to the Guice style (centralized wiring vs. wiring information in each class), it is a valuable way to wire your python app.
- Aspect-oriented Programming – apply interceptors in a horizontal programming paradigm (instead of vertical OOP inheritance) for things like transactions, security, and caching.
- DatabaseTemplate – Reading from the database requires a monotonous cycle of opening cursors, reading rows, and closing cursors, along with exception handlers. With this template class, all you need is the SQL query and row-handling function. Spring Python does the rest.
- Database Transactions – Wrapping multiple database calls with transactions can make your code hard to read. This module provides multiple ways to define transactions without making things complicated.
- Security – Plugin security interceptors to lock down access to your methods, utilizing both authentication and domain authorization.
- Remoting – It is easy to convert your local application into a distributed one. If you have already built your client and server pieces using the IoC container, then going from local to distributed is just a configuration change.
- Samples – to help demonstrate various features of Spring Python, some sample applications have been created:
- PetClinic – Spring Framework’s sample web app has been rebuilt from the ground up using python web containers including: CherryPy. Go check it out for an example of how to use this framework. (NOTE: Other python web frameworks will be added to this list in the future).
- Spring Wiki – Wikis are powerful ways to store and manage content, so we created a simple one as a demo!
- Spring Bot – Use Spring Python to build a tiny bot to manage the IRC channel of your open source project.