Overview

Morepath

Morepath is a web framework build the idea of creating REST APIs in mind. It has some really great features which help to create an awesome and secure API.

  • It's model-driven which means the routing points to models instead of views and the views are also bind to models. This makes it an easy fit for REST.
  • The model based design allows also for automatic hyperlink creation which doesn't break.
  • It's easy to setup an identity depending on an identity_policy.
  • It has a powerful permission system which is based on models and allows fine-grained settings for per view permissions.
  • Morepath is highly extensible by subclassing your App from an extension App which has features you want to add to your App. These can be public Morepath extensions or just some custom features you want to add to several Apps. You can also create a default App and change settings/features by subclassing depending on the runtime environment like production or testing.
  • Morepath is build on top of the Reg dispatcher, which gives us some great low level features like creating services.

JSON Web Token (JWT)

A token based authentication system using JSON Web Token (JWT).

For implementing JWT in Morepath we use the more.jwtauth extension. It provides a JWT based identity_policy and some extra features like token refreshing.

PonyORM

Easy to use and powerful database query syntax which integrates greatfully with Python.

With more.pony we have an awesome Morepath integration which binds the database session to the request so you can interact with the database in your App directly without using db_session.

Cerberus

Cerberus provides powerful yet simple and lightweight data validation functionality out of the box and is designed to be easily extensible, allowing for custom validation. It has also normalization capabilities.

It easily fits with Morepath through the more.cerberus extension.

The Cerberus schema is defined in server/schema.yml.

pymitter

pymitter is a Python port of the extended Node.js EventEmitter 2 approach providing namespaces, wildcards and TTL.

It allows us to emmit signals on database events.

It integrates with the lightweight more.emit wrapper extension.

Yagmail

The Yagmail SMTP client is used by the MailerService for sending emails. It's quite simple and lightweight but has some cool features like storing passwords in the keyring and has also a great Gmail integration. The newest version supports also oauth2 authentication. It's quite usable though it's not yet really mature.

It's dangerous

Itsdangerous is used by the TokenService. It uses URLSafeTimedSerializer to sign links which are sent by email to the user and which should expire after a certain time.

email_validator

email_validator is a robust email address syntax and deliverability validation library.

EmailValidationService uses it to normalize and verify email addresses. During verification it checks also if the email domain is a resolvable domain name.