List repositories from multiple projects in Trac using mod_python

Posted by Steffen Eriksen on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Steffen Eriksen
Published on 2013-06-28T08:46:27Z Indexed on 2013/06/28 10:23 UTC
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Currently working on a customized webpage that shows the available projects I have in Trac (1.0.1). I am using mod_python to connect the trac interface. I found a standard page for this, but it didn't show listing of repositories. The page showed some variables to link to the different projects, but I can't find variables to the different repositories inside the projects.

I have set up the webpage from reading this: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInterfaceCustomization (under Site Appearance)

Short summary; editing ../conf.d/trac.conf:

PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /parent/dir/of/projects 
PythonOption TracEnvIndexTemplate /path/to/template

And making a template file I can edit at /path/to/template:

  <!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
          xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"
          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
      <head>
        <title>Available Projects</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <h1>Available Projects</h1>
        <ul>
        <dl>
          <li py:for="project in projects" py:choose="">
            <a py:when="project.href" href="$project.href"
               title="$project.description">$project.name</a>
                ## <dd> WANT TO ADD CODE HERE! </dd>
            <py:otherwise>
              <small>$project.name: <em>Error</em> <br /> ($project.description)</small>
            </py:otherwise>
          </li>
        </dl>
        </ul>
      </body>
    </html>

So... The code I want to add is something like:

<dd py:for="repos in project.repository" py:choose=""> 
<a py:when="repos.href" href="$repos.href"> $repos.name</a> </dd>

I can't figure out where to add the variables, or if there already exists some variables I can use. After searching through the files it seemed like main.py had something to do with the variables (/usr/local/Trac-1.0.1/trac/web/main.py), but at first look it didn't seem easy to just add more variables.

Is there a simple way to find the rest of the variables ? And how hard is it to add more variables? Will it perhaps be easier to do this an alternative way ? All I need is to link to the repositories dynamically

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