CatWalk

What is CatWalk?

CatWalk is a single page (buzzword compliant) Ajax application build on top of TurboGears. With it you can easily interact with your application model and manage your data. Think of it as phpMyAdmin or pgAdmin at the ORM level instead of the RDBMS. It is database agnostic, all it's information is pulled out of SQLObject - not from the underlying data store.

Use CatWalk

There are two main ways that you can access CatWalk. The preferred method is to open it directly from the toolbox.

You may instead want to mount CatWalk as a controller, though this may compromise data security. For example:

You may then access CatWalk from the browser, like so: http://example.org/catwalk.

Constraining access with identity

If your app is on a network, and you mount CatWalk as a controller, everybody on that network will be able to access CatWalk as well. To constrain access to it, you can use TurboGears' identity.

Once you have setup and configured identity, you can constrain access to CatWalk using rules relevant for your setup. For example this application have an admin group, and access to CatWalk is granted only to it's members:

User interface overview

  1. the left column lists all the SQLObject classes described in your model
  2. the grid widget, lists the records availables for the selected class, and let you remove or edit a record
  3. you can add a new record as well
  4. fields for joins display the number of related records (if any)

CatWalk let you configure the order of your columns by dragging and dropping. You can toggle their visibility as well.

The detail view let you edit a record and manage it's relations in context.