Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of pstamp_web_interface_features

Timestamp:

Jan 13, 2010, 11:56:04 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

welling

Comment:

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pstamp_web_interface_features

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 [[Image(stampserver_screenshot.png)]]
 
-Selection is by sky coordinates, and optionally date range and filter.  Records are fetched from a MySQL database 
+Selection is by sky coordinates, and optionally date range and filter.  This example shows decimal coordinates but
+sexigesimal values work as well.  Records are fetched from a MySQL database 
 and shown as a table; observations which are not available are grayed out.  The user can check-mark some or all
 of the available records, and then request data products for those records.  The data products are produced 
@@ -232 +233 @@
 
 === Underlying Software ===
+
+The page is written in python, running under the mod_python plug-in in an apache web server.  SQLAlchemy is used to interface
+to a MySQL database of images.  The database table is derived from the IPP database in an offline operation; the IPP 
+database tables are organized to describe data processing rather than the simple existence of images.  The table knows
+which observations exist and which images are available.  Only the most recent processing run for a given observation is 
+included.
+
+Most of the forms checking is done on the server side; the form includes a small amount of javascript code.  It would
+probably be better to do more of the checking with javascript.  Table sorting could be added easily via [ http://kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/
+sorttable].