This is a page that contains the resources for GeoDashboard Refactoring.

Config file for Parser

This is evaluated in terms of python 

Possible config file formats

https://martin-thoma.com/configuration-files-in-python/

• Python Configuration File (.py)
  • python library: no need, just import
  • problem; it's not genetic format; and easy for others to add actual python code in the config file

• JSON
  • python library: built-in json 
  • problem: no comment preservation, the order of keys can be changed (if you rewrite it)

• YAML
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3444436/configobj-configparser-vs-using-yaml-for-python-settings-file
  • python library: 
    • pyYAML : no comments preservation, the order of keys can be changed (if you rewrite it)
    • ruamel.yaml: overcome the problems of pyYAML

• INI
  • python library: built-in ConfigParser, ConfigObj
  • problem: 
    • no complex structures with lists of unnamed elements containing mappings/dictionaries
    • no comment preservation, the order of keys can be changed (if you rewrite it) 

• XML
  • python library: many python xml library
  • problem: 
    • cumbersome to edit the file itself. 

Possible choice: YAML

• python Library: ruamel.yaml 
  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ruamel.yaml
  • https://bitbucket.org/ruamel/yaml

Caching API

Testing and looking in to caching technology for RESTful API

Useful articles

• Varnish vs Squid: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-fundamental-difference-between-varnish-and-squid-caching-architectures

Varnish

• Main site: https://www.varnish-cache.org/
• Monitoring (web UI) the varnish: http://munin-monitoring.org/ with Varnish plugin (https://github.com/munin-monitoring/contrib/tree/master/plugins/varnish4)

Memcached

• Main site: http://memcached.org/

Redis 

• Main site: http://redis.io/