What I have learned during the GSOC Period:

This will be helpful for future contributors, which will help to understand the code implementation better.

Cheetah Templating System:

Cheetah3 is a free and open-source template engine and code-generation tool written in Python. Cheetah is a domain-specific language for markup generation and templating which allows for full integration with existing Python code but also offers extensions to traditional Python syntax to allow for easier text generation.

• It allows us to implement python code, with the existing HTML, CSS, JS code.

• Each file created using a cheetah templating system is called a template file and saved using the .tmpl extension.

• for adding any code for python, we need to use the # symbol at the start then write the code:

    Examples below:
    #import zoo
    #import datastores.directories.service as ds
    #import os
    #import mm_access 
  

• For creating any variable we use #set:

    Examples below:
    #set tmpl=$conf['main']['templatesPath']+"/Distiller/form_line.html"
    #include $tmpl
    #set ftmpl=$self._CHEETAH__cheetahIncludes[$tmpl]
  

• For providing the definition for a function we need to declare the function using #def function_name :

    #def function name
    write code here  
    #end def
  

• Defined function can be called using $function_name: Note: If the function is defined using parameters, then we can call using $function_name(parm1,parm2,..)

    $function_name
  

• Conditional If-else statements can be written as:

    #if code for the condition:
    Statements to be executed
    #end if