The application uses Django purely for testing to allow easy access to mock data.

Why devganetiviz? When -

• (a) you already have ganetiviz inside GWM?
• (b) you already have ganetiviz-cytoscape?

Okay so here's how it goes.

I was working with the ganetiviz-cytoscape which was basically the front end component of ganetiviz an extension application I am writing for Ganeti Web Manager a.k.a GWM.

• If someone wants to contribute just to the front end of ganetiviz without worrying about installing gwm and running a ganeti or vagrant-ganeti cluster; he should be able to do so.

• It acts as a testing zone where you get the mock cluster data required to add any new front-end feature using available data.Mock data is sufficiently large which provides a more insightful look than a small virtual cluster.

So that should serve as a reason for (a)

I wanted to add a feature that fetches separate data for each instance on the graph on clicking it. This was easy to add to ganetiviz in GWM, as I just had to add a pattern that matches different instances to the corresponding instance json data. The json data is dynamically fetched by a GWM-RAPI proxy view, and is different for each instance, since each instance has its own parameters.

Now to get this feature in ganetiviz-cytoscape. Firstly, its okay that I return the same json data for every instance. (since ganetiviz-cytoscape is about mock data and not live data.)

ganetiviz-cytoscape had a devserver which was used to run a SimpleHttpServer to serve static files in the root directory of Ganetiviz. But this server is not sufficient to provide the kind of functionality a django devserver can along with the URLConf.

What's the solution?

• Lets get in django devserver to work for us?
• How?
• Lets convert ganetiviz-cytoscape into a django project.
• The result: ganetiviz-cytoscape + Django = devganetiviz (THIS REPOSITORY) :)

Since ganetiviz is a django app itself inside GWM. Having devganetiviz as a separate django project keeps things very close to the GWM ganetiviz. (ie. The diff's between the common files is less as compared to the earlier ganetiviz-cytoscape.)

For now the installation only requires Django >= 1.4.5

    pip install -r requirements.txt

    $ cd devganetiviz
    $ ./manage.py runserver

Visit http://localhost:8000/ to see the ganetiviz cluster graph. There are no models so no need to run syncdb. :) All the fixure data is available in json files and you should not modify them unless you know what you are doing, as that is how the actual ganetiviz returns live data.

devganetiviz is NOT an alternative for ganetiviz in GWM. It is a complementary project to support the ganetiviz app in GWM.