Socon

Socon is a high-level Python framework that helps you develop a generic and robust framework for your different projects. Let us forget about writing hundred of scripts with thousands of configurations, this framework will help your organize your work and will speed your development.

Socon's create a generic Django like project structure. It's a structure that contains all the element for you to get started with your framework and all your different projects.

Why Socon ?

I believe we have all ended-up in a situation where we have had multiple projects that need to share the same scripts or components. Some projects may need a specific configuration or a specific function to be executed. Also, we often spend a great amount of time writing a script that is not generic enough to be used by all of our different projects.

Socon has been designed to simplify all that. Socon works with commands. Socon will let you define common commands that can be shared across projects. Each project can either write their own commands, or override common commands to change their behaviors by adding or removing functionalities.

The framework also provide features like managers and hooks. These features will allow you to increase the functionalities of your framework while maintaining genericity across your different projects.

Documentation

The full documentation is in the "docs" directory on GitHub or online at https://socon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

If you are just getting started, We recommend that you read the documentation in this order:

• Read docs/intro/install.txt for instructions on how to install Socon.
• Walk through each tutorial in numerical order: docs/intro/tutorials
• Jump to the docs/how-to for specific problems and use-cases.
• Checkout the docs/ref for more details about API's and functionalities.

Check docs/README for instructions on building an HTML version of the docs.

Example

Let's imagine that you have two different projects. One project called artemis and the other one apollo. Both of these NASA projects need to launch a different rocket.

There are two possibilities:

• Write a different scripts for each project but you lose the genericity.
• Or write a generic script that will load a configuration file with the information of both rockets and the launch procedure. This will be the best solution, but it will be time consuming and might not take into account all the possibilities.

Socon was created to facilitate the second method. You are able to create common commands that are available to all projects you have created using the createproject command.

from socon.core.management.base import ProjectCommand, Config
from socon.core.registry.base import ProjectConfig


class LaunchCommand(ProjectCommand):
    name = 'launch'

    def handle(self, config: Config, project_config: ProjectConfig):
        spacecraft = project_config.get_setting('SPACECRAFT')
        print(f'Launching the {spacecraft} SpaceCraft to the moon')

This command is declared in the common space of your framework created by the createcontainer command.

We are using a project_config object to load the name of the spacecraft. This project_config object is loaded when you start the command and you specify the project.

The SPACECRAFT variable is stored in a file called config.py at the root of every project created by the command createproject.

# Artemis config.py
SPACECRAFT = 'Artemis 1'

# Apollo config.py
SPACECRAFT = 'Saturn V'

Now that everything is setup. You can just run the following:

$ python manage.py launch --project artemis
$ Launching the Artemis 1 SpaceCraft the the moon

$ python manage.py launch --project apollo
$ Launching the Saturn V SpaceCraft the the moon

Of course the framework capabilities do not stop here. You can go even further, for example by redefining functionalities of the launch command.

We invite you to walk through each tutorial in numerical order here: docs/intro/tutorials

Contribution

Anyone can contribute to Socon's development. Checkout our documentation on how to get involved: https://socon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/internals/contributing.html

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License

Copyright Stephane Capponi and others, 2023 Distributed under the terms of the BSD-3-Clause license, Socon is free and open source software.

Socon also reused codes from third-party. You can find the licenses of these third-party in the licenses folder. Each files that has been reused and modified contains an SPDX section to specify the license used and the Copyright. If you want more information about our license and why we reused code from third-party, check the docs/intro/overview.txt