Hello
Looking at writing a front end to an AWS orchestration tool in web2py, I
already have the functionality required coded in python defs, so just
looking at presenting things nicely.
One thing I'll have to do a lot of, is present grids and dropdowns of data
that have come from lists and dictionaries returned by boto module, for
example in my controller, I tested this:
@auth.requires_login()
def stacklist():
xadb = DAL('sqlite:memory:')
xadb.define_table('stacks', Field('stack_name', label='Stack Name'),
Field('stack_status', label='Status'))
xadb.stacks.truncate()
awskey=auth.user['AWSKey']
awssec=auth.user['AWSSecret']
e2conn = boto.ec2.connect_to_region('eu-west-1',
aws_access_key_id=awskey,
aws_secret_access_key=awssec)
cfconn = boto.cloudformation.connect_to_region('eu-west-1',
aws_access_key_id=awskey,
aws_secret_access_key=awssec)
regions = boto.ec2.regions(aws_access_key_id=awskey,
aws_secret_access_key=awssec) #
# get and populate cloudformer stacks
#
stackList = cfconn.list_stacks()
for stackSummary in stackList:
xadb.stacks.insert(stack_name=stackSummary.stack_name, stack_status=
stackSummary.stack_status)
form = SQLFORM.grid(xadb.stacks,orderby=[xadb.stacks.stack_status,])
return dict(form=form)
This works, but if I wanted to create a dropdown for regions instead of
hard coding eu-west-1, I'd be doing this sort of thing again with a
different temporary db. And then there's lists for RDS snapshots, ec2
images, ec2 snapshots etc. Lots of lists of AWS resources to be presented.
Am I going about this the best way ? What other options exist for me to
present lists and dropdowns of data returned from third party API calls?
Thanks
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