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Introduction
An Instagram clone implemented with a templated static site generator. This is the first of an EECS 485 three project sequence: a static site generator from templates, server-side dynamic pages, and client-side dynamic pages.
The learning goals of this project include HTML, CSS, templates, Python programming, and basic shell scripting. It is also a readiness test that will give you an idea of what EECS 485 will be like.
Write a Python program that takes as input HTML templates, JSON data and misc. static files (like images and CSS) and generates as output a web site of static content. Then, use your new tool to build a non-interactive website. Jekyll and Pelican are two examples of open source static site generators.
Heres a preview of what your finished project will look like. insta485generator is the name of the Python program you will write. insta485 is an input directory containing HTML templates, JSON data and misc. static files (like images and CSS). insta485/html is an output directory containing generated static HTML files.
$ insta485generator insta485
$ cd insta485/html/
$ python3 -m http.server 8000
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/)
Then you will navigate to http://localhost:8000 and see the non-interactive website that you created.
If youre new to HTML, CSS and Python, here are some helpful resources:
W3 Schools Beginners Guide to HTML
This spec will walk you through these parts:
- Setting up your computer
- Hand coded HTML
- Creating Python starter files
- insta485generator specification
- Static Templated Insta485 specification
- Submitting and grading
- FAQ
Setting up your computer
Well walk you through setting up your operating system, Python virtual environment and version control.
Operating System
Set up your computer for local development using the Operating System Tutorial.
You should now have a folder for your project. Your folder location might be different.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
Version Control
Set up version control using the Version control tutorial.
After youre done, you should have a local repository with a clean status and your local repository should be connected to a remote GitLab repository.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with origin/master.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
$ git remote -v origin https://gitlab.eecs.umich.edu/awdeorio/p1-insta485-static.git (fetch) origin https://gitlab.eecs.umich.edu/awdeorio/p1-insta485-static.git (push) You should have a .gitignore file (instructions).
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ head .gitignore
This is a sample .gitignore file thats useful for EECS 485 projects.
Python virtual environment
Create a Python virtual environment for project 1 using the Python Virtual Environment Tutorial.
You should now have Python tools installed locally.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ ls env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ which python
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static/env/bin/python
$ which pip
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static/env/bin/pip
Python debugger
Learn how to use the Python debugger, pdb using the Python Debugging Tutorial.
Browser tutorial
Learn about the developer tools built into your browser with the Browser Tutorial.
Starter files
Download and unpack the starter files.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ wget https://eecs485staff.github.io/p1-insta485-static/starter_files.tar.gz $ tar -xvzf starter_files.tar.gz
Move the starter files to your project directory and remove the original starter_files/ directory.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ mv starter_files/* .
$ rm -rf starter_files starter_files.tar.gz You should see these files.
$ tree
.
VERSION
hello
config.json
templates
index.html
hello_css
config.json
static
css
style.css
templates
index.html
insta485
config.json static
uploads
e1a7c5c32973862ee15173b0259e3efdb6a391af.jpg
setup.py tests
util.py
| VERSION | Version of the starter files |
| hello/ | Sample input for insta485generator |
| hello_css/ | Sample input for insta485generator |
| insta485/ | Static templated Insta485 goes here |
| insta485/config.json | Data for future Insta485 templates |
| insta485/static/uploads/ | Sample images for Insta485 |
| setup.py | insta485generator python package configuration |
| tests/ | Public unit tests |
Before making any changes to the clean starter files, its a good idea to make a commit to your Git repository.
Hand coded HTML
Once you have your computer set up, youll write two HTML files by hand: html/index.html and html/u/awdeorio/index.html . This will give you practice with HTML and CSS, which youll later
generate using Python code.
For those developing locally, navigate to your projects root directory. Also, remember to activate your Python virtual environment every time you begin a coding sessions (AKA start a new shell).
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ source env/bin/activate
Create a directory layout using mkdir . The image logo.png is optional; you can style your website however you like. Here are some commands to get you started.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ mkdir html/
$ mkdir html/css/
$ mkdir html/images/
$ mkdir html/u/
$ mkdir html/u/awdeorio/
$ mkdir html/uploads/
$ touch html/css/style.css # touch creates empty files
$ touch html/index.html
$ touch html/u/awdeorio/index.html
$ cp insta485/static/uploads/* html/uploads/
Add the initial file structure to the git repo.
Here are the files you should have when you are done.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ tree html/ html/
css
style.css
images
index.html
u
awdeorio
index.html
uploads
122a7d27ca1d7420a1072f695d9290fad4501a41.jpg
2ec7cf8ae158b3b1f40065abfb33e81143707842.jpg
505083b8b56c97429a728b68f31b0b2a089e5113.jpg
5ecde7677b83304132cb2871516ea50032ff7a4f.jpg
73ab33bd357c3fd42292487b825880958c595655.jpg
9887e06812ef434d291e4936417d125cd594b38a.jpg
ad7790405c539894d25ab8dcf0b79eed3341e109.jpg
e1a7c5c32973862ee15173b0259e3efdb6a391af.jpg
Start your two HTML files ( html/index.html and html/u/awdeorio/index.html ) like this. Edit HTML files with a text editor.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
Hello world!
</html>
Run a test server and browse to http://localhost:8000/ where you will see hello world. Again, recall that this is a static file server, which serves copies of files from the servers file system. In this example, the file is a plain text file containing HTML.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ cd html/
$ python3 -m http.server 8000
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/)
Keep up your good git habits by committing files when youve completed each small task.
Continue working on html/index.html . When youre done, the page should have the following content, although yours might look different. For example, a logo is not required. To be clear: there are no autograder tests for your CSS layout. You can make it look however you want. What you must include is the text, images, and links shown in the screenshot below. For details on what links to include, see the All pages and Index sections. You may have to reference your
config.json file to figure out what URLs some links may lead to (its okay if some lead to
nowhere for this hand-coded portion). Dont forget to git add and git commit when youre done.
Next, code html/u/awdeorio/index.html . When youre done, the page should have the following content, although yours might have different styling. Again, were not requiring any particular
CSS styling. See the /u/<user_url_slug>/ section for more details about the links to include. Dont forget to git add and git commit when youre done.
All HTML should be W3C HTML5 compliant. Heres how to check yours at the command line.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static $ html5validator root html/
Test
Run the public autograder testcases on your hand coded HTML.
$ pytest -v tests/test_handcoded_html.py tests/test_handcoded_index.py tests/test_handcode
========================== 12 passed in 3.76 seconds ===========================
Creating the Python starter files
This section will help you get your Python files set up.
Our program will be called insta485generator . The following steps will help you to create a Python package for it. (More info in the Python documentation on modules, especially the section on packages.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ mkdir insta485generator/
$ cd insta485generator/
All Packages must have an __init__.py file. Our starter package is simple, so it wont do anything. Create the file insta485generator/__init__.py (be sure to include the 2 underscores before and after init) and add a comment like this to it:
A static site generator.
Now within the insta485generator directory, create a new file called __main__.py . Our main function will go in insta485generator/__main__.py . We have given you the skeleton code below.
Build static HTML site from directory of HTML templates and plain files.
def main():
Top level command line interface. print(Hello world!)
if __name__ == __main__: main()
Now, try running it:
$ python3 insta485generator/__main__.py Hello world!
Next, well install our package into our development environment. Double-check that the development environment is still active. If its not, then activate it with source env/bin/activate .
$ echo $VIRTUAL_ENV
/Users/awdeorio/src/p1-insta485-static/solution/awdeorio/env
The setup.py file provided with the starter files describes how your package should be installed. Weve included some libraries that will be helpful later. You are not allowed to add any additional dependencies other than the ones that we specify. More info about setup scripts and Python entry points.
At this point, weve got these files (excluding env , __pycache__ and html ):
$ tree insta485generator matchdirs -I __pycache__ insta485generator __init__.py
__main__.py
We can now use pip to install insta485generator package using setup.py . Well install in editable mode so that we wont have to reinstall when we make changes to our Python source code. Again, be sure that your virtual envirnment is active.
$ echo $VIRTUAL_ENV
/Users/awdeorio/src/p1-insta485-static/solution/awdeorio/env
$ pip install -e .
Running setup.py develop for insta485generator Successfully installed insta485generator
Because of the entry point in setup.py ( insta485generator =
insta485generator.__main__:main ), theres now an executable that calls our insta485generator packages main() function!
$ insta485generator Hello world!
How did it do that? When you activate your virtual environment with source env/bin/activate , your shells PATH environment variable is temporarily modified to include programs installed to ./env/bin/ . Prove it to yourself:
$ echo $PATH
/Users/awdeorio/src/p1-insta485-static/solution/awdeorio/env/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local $ which insta485generator
/Users/awdeorio/src/p1-insta485-static/solution/awdeorio/env/bin/insta485generator
When you get this working, it may be a good point to commit to git
### `pytest` utility
Learn how to use the Python `pytest` unit test utility using the [`pytest` Tutorial](setup Now you can continue developing `insta485generator` by adding code to `insta485generator/_
# `insta485generator` specification
We will now begin implementing the functionality for our insta485generator. We will modify
- Handle command line arguments using the [click library](https://click.palletsprojects.c
- Render the provided templates and write them to output files and create all the necessa
- Copy over a static directory if it is provided
- Handle errors
The inputs to `insta485generator` are templated HTML files with data in JSON format. The
We have provided two examples to help you get your `insta485generator` working. We recomme
The command line utility supports the following options. Hint: use the [click library](ht
`console
$ insta485generator
Usage: insta485generator [OPTIONS] INPUT_DIR
Try insta485generator help for help.
Error: Missing argument INPUT_DIR.
$ insta485generator help
Usage: insta485generator [OPTIONS] INPUT_DIR
Templated static website generator.
Options:
-v, verbose Print more output.
help Show this message and exit.
The configuration for one website is an input directory containing a data file ( config.json ), a templates/ directory and an optional static/ directory. Templates are rendered and written to
output files, and static files are copied without modification.
We will now walk through the hello example. The hello/ example is provided with the starter files.
$ tree hello/
.
config.json
templates
index.html
A configuration file (e.g., hello/config.json ) is a JSON string with a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary contains a url , the name of a template file and a context dictionary. The template file is rendered using the context dictionary. Hint: Python has a built in JSON library.
[
{
url: /,
template: index.html,
context: {
words: [
hello,
world
]
}
}
]
Templates use jinja2 syntax, for example hello/templates/index.html below. Hint: check out the Jinja2 library.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
<head><title>Hello world</title></head>
<body>
{% for word in words %}
{{word}}
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>
Running insta485generator INPUT_DIR renders templates, copying the results to an output directory. The output directory is ${INPUT_DIR}/html , where ${INPUT_DIR} is the command line argument INPUT_DIR .
After you finish insta485generator , it will render templates and create directories like this example.
$ tree hello hello
config.json
templates
index.html
$ insta485generator hello
$ tree hello hello
config.json
html
index.html templates
index.html
Output files rendered from templates no longer contain any template code, for example hello/html/index.html . The algorithm for an output filename is os.path.join(input_dir,
html, url.lstrip(/), index.html) where input_dir is the command line argument INPUT_DIR and url is the URL read from the config.json file.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
<head><title>Hello world</title></head>
<body> hello world
</body>
Finally, serve up the newly created site and browse to http://localhost:8000/.
$ cd hello/html/
$ python3 -m http.server 8000
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/)
Weve published the test_hello autograder testcase. After copying the test directory from the starter files to your working directory, you can run it yourself like this:
$ pytest -v tests/test_hello.py
============================= test session starts ==============================
::TestHello::test_files PASSED [ 50%] ::TestHello::test_index PASSED [100%]
=========================== 2 passed in 0.59 seconds ===========================
More examples
Heres an example of the verbose option. The position of the option doesnt matter.
$ rm -rf hello/html
$ insta485generator hello verbose
Rendered index.html -> hello/html/index.html
Heres a slightly more complicated example with a static CSS style file. The hello_css/ example is provided with the starter files.
$ tree hello_css hello_css config.json
static
css
style.css
templates
index.html
This is the config file hello_css/config.json :
[
{
url: /,
template: index.html,
context: {
words: [
hello,
world
]
}
}
]
Heres hello_css/templates/index.html :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
<head>
<title>Hello world</title>
<link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/css/style.css>
</head>
<body>
{% for word in words %}
<div class=important>{{word}}</div>
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>
And hello_css/static/css/style.css :
body {
background: pink;
}
div.important { font-weight: bold; font-size: 1000%;
}
Build and list output files
$ insta485generator -v hello_css
Copied hello_css/static/ -> hello_css/html/
Rendered index.html -> hello_css/html/index.html
$ tree hello_css/html hello_css/html css
style.css index.html
Weve published the test_hello_css autograder testcase. You can run it yourself like this:
$ pytest -v tests/test_hello_css.py
============================= test session starts ==============================
::TestHelloCSS::test_css_dir PASSED [ 33%]
::TestHelloCSS::test_files PASSED [ 66%] ::TestHelloCSS::test_index PASSED [100%]
=========================== 3 passed in 0.59 seconds ===========================
A few notes about the jinja2 library
Wed like to save you a bit of frustration getting the jinja2 library working the same way our instruction solution works. First, in order to make template inheritance work correctly, youll need to use the FileSystemLoader . Second, were going to enable auto escaping for security reasons.
Heres how we configured out template environment in our instructor solution:
template_env = jinja2.Environment(
loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader(template_dir), autoescape=jinja2.select_autoescape([html, xml]), )
Python code style
Verify that your Python code conforms the PEP 8 Style Guide for Python. Check for common Python errors and additional style guidelines using Pylint. Confirm that internal documentation (comments) conforms to the PEP 257 Docstring Conventions.
$ pip install pycodestyle pydocstyle pylint
$ pycodestyle setup.py insta485generator
$ pylint disable=no-value-for-parameter setup.py insta485generator
No config file found, using default configuration
Your code has been rated at 10.00/10 (previous run: 10.00/10, +0.00)
$ pydocstyle setup.py insta485generator
HINT test your style frequently. Its hard to fix the style of a large code base with many errors. Later, well automate these tests with a script ( insta485test ). Remember when you were first learning to code in C/C++? Did you ever see a classmate code their entire project, and then say OK, now all I have to do is compile it!. Bad idea! Just like C/C++ compilation, check your code in small increments.
Test
Run the public autograder testcases on your insta485generator .
$ pytest tests/test_hello.py tests/test_hello_css.py
=========================== 5 passed in 1.14 seconds ===========================
Static Templated Insta485 specification
In this part of the project, you will write HTML template files that you can render using insta485generator to create a non-interactive Instagram clone. First, this section will help you
create skeleton files. Then, in the URLs section, well describe each page in detail and provide a screen shot.
First, set up the directory structure using mkdir and the provided starter files. Use your handcoded HTML files earlier in the project as a starting point. Put the HTML files in
insta485/templates/index.html and insta485/templates/user.html . When youre done, you
should have a new directory called insta485 that looks like this:
$ tree insta485 insta485
config.json
static
css
style.css
images
logo.png
uploads
122a7d27ca1d7420a1072f695d9290fad4501a41.jpg
2ec7cf8ae158b3b1f40065abfb33e81143707842.jpg
505083b8b56c97429a728b68f31b0b2a089e5113.jpg
5ecde7677b83304132cb2871516ea50032ff7a4f.jpg
73ab33bd357c3fd42292487b825880958c595655.jpg
9887e06812ef434d291e4936417d125cd594b38a.jpg
ad7790405c539894d25ab8dcf0b79eed3341e109.jpg e1a7c5c32973862ee15173b0259e3efdb6a391af.jpg
templates
index.html
user.html
A few things to note. First, images/logo.png is optional. You are welcome to create any logo you want, or to omit it and use plain text. Second, remember that everything inside insta485/static/ will be copied to insta485/html/ by insta485generator . Also note that the config.json should come from the starter code, you do not have to write this by hand.
Use insta485generator to render the templates and copy the static files. Yea, yea, our HTML files dont have any Jinja2 syntax in them, but theyre still valid template files!
$ rm -rf insta485/html
$ insta485generator insta485
Error_Jinja: jinja2 template following.html
TemplateNotFound: following.html
Were getting an error because the provided insta485/config.json contains configurations for URLs that we havent written templates for. Lets create a temporary configuration thats shorter. First back up the old one.
$ cp -v insta485/config.json insta485/config.json.bak
insta485/config.json -> insta485/config.json.bak
Then, edit insta485/config.json so that it only contains configurations for URLs that use the index.html and user.html templates. Be careful, JSON doesnt allow trailing commas!
[
{
url: /,
template: index.html,
context: {
logname: awdeorio, posts: [
]
} },
{
url: /u/michjc/,
template: user.html, context: {
}
}
]
Now, try running insta485generator again. Start a development server and youll see the rendered templates, which at this point are just copies of your hand coded HTML files.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ rm -rf insta485/html
$ insta485generator insta485 -v
Copied insta485/static/ -> insta485/html/
Rendered index.html -> insta485/html/index.html
Rendered user.html -> insta485/html/u/awdeorio/index.html
Rendered user.html -> insta485/html/u/jflinn/index.html Rendered user.html -> insta485/html/u/jag/index.html
Rendered user.html -> insta485/html/u/michjc/index.html
$ cd insta485/html/
$ python3 -m http.server 8000
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/)
$ cd ../../
Utility scripts
During development, were going to be regenerating this website a lot. Web developers often use short shell scripts to make their lives easier. First, complete the Shell Scripting Tutorial.
Write a script to clean up the automatically generated insta485/html/ directory, build the static site using insta485generator , and start a development server on port 8000. Well give you the solution here for bin/insta485run . Create a folder called bin and copy the following code into a file called insta485run (note no file extension).
#!/bin/bash
# # insta485run
# # Clean, build and start server
#
# Andrew DeOrio <[email protected]>
# Stop on errors, print commands # See https://vaneyckt.io/posts/safer_bash_scripts_with_set_euxo_pipefail/ set -Eeuo pipefail
set -x # Clean
rm -rf insta485/html
# Build
insta485generator insta485
# Serve cd insta485/html python3 -m http.server 8000
Now, make the script executable so you can use it like a command.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ chmod +x bin/insta485run
$ ./bin/insta485run
+ rm -rf insta485/html/css insta485/html/index.html insta485/html/u
+ insta485generator insta485
+ cd insta485/html
+ python3 -m http.server 8000
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/)
Check for shell script pitfalls.
insta485test script
Write another script called bin/insta485test that does the following things in this order:
- Stops on errors and prints commands
- Runs all unit tests using pytest tests/
- Runs pycodestyle insta485generator
- Runs pydocstyle insta485generator
- Runs pylint disable=no-value-for-parameter setup.py insta485generator
- Cleans up a previous insta485/html directory
- Builds a new insta485/html directory using insta485generator
- Validates hand-coded HTML in html/ using html5validator ( html5validator ignore
JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS root html )
- Validates generated HTML in insta485/html/ using html5validator ( html5validator -ignore JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS root insta485/html )
Progress so far
Heres a complete list of the files in our project up to this point. Note that it excludes env and
__pycache__ . This will differ from your final tree because it is missing the templates we will create in the next step.
$ pwd
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ tree matchdirs -I env|__pycache__|*.egg-info
.
bin
insta485run
insta485test
html
css
style.css
images
logo.png
index.html
u
awdeorio
index.html
uploads
122a7d27ca1d7420a1072f695d9290fad4501a41.jpg
2ec7cf8ae158b3b1f40065abfb33e81143707842.jpg
505083b8b56c97429a728b68f31b0b2a089e5113.jpg
5ecde7677b83304132cb2871516ea50032ff7a4f.jpg
73ab33bd357c3fd42292487b825880958c595655.jpg
9887e06812ef434d291e4936417d125cd594b38a.jpg
ad7790405c539894d25ab8dcf0b79eed3341e109.jpg
e1a7c5c32973862ee15173b0259e3efdb6a391af.jpg
insta485
config.json
config.json.bak
html
css
style.css
images
logo.png
index.html
u
awdeorio
index.html jag
index.html jflinn
index.html michjc
index.html
uploads
122a7d27ca1d7420a1072f695d9290fad4501a41.jpg
2ec7cf8ae158b3b1f40065abfb33e81143707842.jpg
505083b8b56c97429a728b68f31b0b2a089e5113.jpg
5ecde7677b83304132cb2871516ea50032ff7a4f.jpg
73ab33bd357c3fd42292487b825880958c595655.jpg
9887e06812ef434d291e4936417d125cd594b38a.jpg
ad7790405c539894d25ab8dcf0b79eed3341e109.jpg
e1a7c5c32973862ee15173b0259e3efdb6a391af.jpg
static
css
style.css
images
logo.png
uploads
122a7d27ca1d7420a1072f695d9290fad4501a41.jpg
2ec7cf8ae158b3b1f40065abfb33e81143707842.jpg
505083b8b56c97429a728b68f31b0b2a089e5113.jpg
5ecde7677b83304132cb2871516ea50032ff7a4f.jpg
73ab33bd357c3fd42292487b825880958c595655.jpg
9887e06812ef434d291e4936417d125cd594b38a.jpg
ad7790405c539894d25ab8dcf0b79eed3341e109.jpg e1a7c5c32973862ee15173b0259e3efdb6a391af.jpg
templates
index.html
user.html
insta485generator
__init__.py
__main__.py
setup.py
tests
test_hello.py
test_hello_css.py
URLs
Now, write templates for each type of URL. You are welcome to add extra files, for example, if youd like to use template inheritance. Style the pages any way you like.
List of URLs and templates:
/ -> index.html
/u/<user_url_slug>/ -> user.html
/u/<user_url_slug>/followers/ -> followers.html /u/<user_url_slug>/following/ -> following.html
/p/<postid_slug>/ -> post.html
/explore/ -> explore.html
All pages
Include a link to / in the upper left hand corner.
Include a link to /explore/ and /u/<logged_in_user>/ in the upper right hand corner.
Include <title>insta485</title> . Nothing else should be in the <title> section
Index /
All posts from other users that the logged in user is following (including their own). The logged in user is specified by logname in config.json . The posts are in the order that they appear in the JSON config file. For each post:
Link to the post detail page /p/<postid_slug>/ by clicking on the timestamp.
Link to the post owners page /u/<user_url_slug>/ by clicking on their username or profile picture.
Time since the post was created
Number of likes, using correct English
Comments, with owners username, in the order that they appear in the JSON config file.
Link to the comment owners page /u/<user_url_slug>/ by clicking on their username. Actual image corresponding to the post.
Heres an example of correct English for number of likes 0 likes, 1 like, 2 likes. The same plural rules apply to number of posts, likes, and followers. Following is always the same 0 following, 1 following, 2 following.
/u/<user_url_slug>/
screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3, screenshot 4
Be sure to include
username ( user_url_slug )
Relationship
following if the logged in user is following user_url_slug
not following if the logged in user is not following user_url_slug
Blank if logged in user == user_url_slug
Number of posts, with correct English
Number of followers, with correct English
Link to /u/<user_url_slug/followers/ Number following
Link to /u/<user_url_slug/following/
Name
A small image for each post
Clicking on the image links to /p/<postid_url_slug>/
/u/<user_url_slug>/followers/ screenshot
List the users that are following user_url_slug . For each, include:
Icon
Username, with link to /u/<username>/
Relationship to logged in user
following if logged in user is following username
not following if logged in user is not following username Blank if logged in user == username
/u/<user_url_slug>/following/ screenshot
List the users that user_url_slug is following. For each, include:
Icon
Username, with link to /u/<username>/
Relationship to logged in user
following if logged in user is following username
not following if logged in user is not following username Blank if logged in user == username
/explore/ screenshot
This page lists all users that the logged in user is not following and includes:
Icon
Username with link to /u/<user_url_slug/
/p/<postid_url_slug>/
screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3, screenshot 4
This page shows one post. Include the same information for this one post as is shown on the main page / .
Test
Run the public autograder testcases on your insta485 .
$ pytest tests/test_followers.py tests/test_following.py tests/test_generated_html.py test
========================== 17 passed in 5.59 seconds ===========================
Error messages
Catch all jinja, json, and FilenotFound exceptions and print sensible error messages (make sure the error message starts with Error_). Then, exit non-zero. Heres an example:
$ pwd/
/Users/awdeorio/src/eecs485/p1-insta485-static
$ insta485generator insta485
Error_JSON: failed to parse insta485/config.json Expecting value: line 370 column 1 (char 8976)
$ echo $?
1
Make sure the errors begin as described:
For all jinja related exceptions, the error begins with Error_Jinja For all json related exceptions, the error begins with Error_JSON
For all FileNotFound related exceptions, the error begins with Error_FileNotFound
Note: in the bash shell, echo $? prints the exit code (return value) of the previous command.
You should handle the case in which the output directory already has files in it. The example below shows how the program should behave in this case.
$ rm -rf hello/html
$ insta485generator hello
$ insta485generator hello
Error_Output_Dir: output directory already contains files: hello/html
Submitting and grading
Run the published autograder test cases locally.
$ pytest tests/
========================== 38 passed in 12.67 seconds ==========================
Submit a tarball to the autograder, which is linked from https://eecs485.org. Include the disable-copyfile flag only on macOS.
$ tar
disable-copyfile
exclude *__pycache__*
exclude insta485/html
-czvf submit.tar.gz
bin html insta485 insta485generator setup.py
The autograder will run pip install -e YOUR_SOLUTION . The exact library versions in the setup.py provided with the starter files is cached on the autograder, so be sure not to add extra
library dependencies to setup.py .
Avoid adding any large images to the tarball. The Autograder may throw an error in case the size of the tarball is greater than 5MB. Use the following command to verify the size of the tarball:
$ du -h submit.tar.gz
2.1M submit.tar.gz
Direct link to the Fall 2019 Project 1 autograder: https://autograder.io/web/project/404.
Rubric
This is an approximate rubric. Note than we cannot give additional information about what the private testcases do. To maximize points, make sure that you are following all directions in the spec. Note that the public tests cases do not test everything that your program must do.
| Test | Value |
| Public unit tests | 50% |
| Public Python and HTML style | 10% |
| Hidden unit tests run after the deadline | 40% |
FAQ
Can I use Python2?
No. You can check your version of your default Python like this:
$ python version Python 2.7.13
After activating a virtual environment, the default python executable may change. For example:
$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ python version Python 3.6.1
Can I disable any code style checks?
Do not disable any code style check from any code style tool ( pycodestyle , pydocstyle , pylint ).
Can I spawn new processes?
When writing insta485generator , do not use any code that spawns a new process. The autograder will fail if new processes are spawned. Examples of Python snippets that spawn a new process: os.system() , sh.ls() , subprocess.check_call() . If youre uncertain whether a new process is being spawned, please ask!
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