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<section id="coding-standards">
<span id="id1"></span><h1><span class="target" id="index-0"></span>Coding Standards<a class="headerlink" href="#coding-standards" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>pgAdmin uses multiple technologies and multiple languages, each of which have
their own coding standards.</p>
<section id="general">
<h2>General<a class="headerlink" href="#general" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>In all languages, indentations should be made with 4 spaces, and excessively long
lines wrapped where appropriate to ensure they can be read on smaller displays
(80 characters is used in many places, but this is not a required maximum size
as it’s quite wasteful on modern displays). Typically lines should not be longer
than 120 characters.</p>
<p>Comments should be included in all code where required to explain its
purpose or how it works if not obvious from a quick review of the code itself.</p>
</section>
<section id="css-3">
<h2>CSS 3<a class="headerlink" href="#css-3" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>CSS3 is used for styling and layout throughout the application.</p>
<p>Most custom styling comes from individual modules which may advertise static
stylesheets to be included in the module that is loading them via hooks.</p>
<p>Styling overrides (for example, to alter the look and feel) will
typically be found in the <strong>overrides.css</strong> file in the main static file
directory for the application.</p>
<p>Styling should never be applied inline in HTML, always through an external
stylesheet, which should contain comments as appropriate to explain the usage
or purpose for the style.</p>
<p>Styles should be specified clearly, one per line. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-css notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c">/* iFrames should have no border */</span>
<span class="nt">iframe</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">border-width</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="c">/* Ensure the codemirror editor displays full height gutters when resized */</span>
<span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">CodeMirror</span><span class="o">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">CodeMirror-gutters</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">height</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="kt">%</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="cp">!important</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>All stylesheets must be CSS3 compliant.</p>
</section>
<section id="html-5">
<h2>HTML 5<a class="headerlink" href="#html-5" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>HTML 5 is used for page structure throughout the application, in most cases
being rendered from templates by the Jinja2 template engine in Flask.</p>
<p>All HTML must be HTML 5 compliant.</p>
</section>
<section id="javascript">
<h2>Javascript<a class="headerlink" href="#javascript" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Client-side code is written in Javascript using ReactJS and various plugins.
Whilst much of the code is rendered from static files, there is also code that
is rendered from templates using Jinja2 (often to inject the users settings) or
constructed on the fly from module hooks.</p>
<p>A typical Javascript function might be formatted like this (this snipped is from
a template):</p>
<div class="highlight-javascript notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1">// Delete a server group</span>
<span class="kd">function</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">delete_server_group</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">item</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">alertify</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">confirm</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;Delete server group?&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;Are you sure you wish to delete the server group &quot;{0}&quot;?&#39;</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;{0}&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">tree</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getLabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">item</span><span class="p">)),</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">function</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">var</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">id</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">tree</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getId</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">item</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">post</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;{{ url_for(&#39;NODE-server-group.delete&#39;) }}&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">id</span><span class="o">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">id</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">})</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">done</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kd">function</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">data</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">data</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">success</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">==</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">0</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">report_error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">data</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">errormsg</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">data</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">info</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">else</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">var</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">next</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">tree</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">next</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">item</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">var</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">prev</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">tree</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">prev</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">item</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">tree</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">remove</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">item</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">next</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">length</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">tree</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">select</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">next</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">else</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">prev</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">length</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">tree</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">select</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">prev</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">null</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>Note the use of a descriptive function name, using the underscore character to
separate words in all lower case, and short but descriptive lower case variable
names.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>From version 3.0 onwards, new or refactored code should be written using
ES6 features and conventions.</p>
</div>
</section>
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<h2>Python<a class="headerlink" href="#python" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Python is used for the backend web server. All code must be compatible with
Python 2.7 and should include PyDoc comments whilst following the official
Python coding standards defined in
<a class="reference external" href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a>. An example function along
with the required file header is shown below:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1">##########################################################################</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># pgAdmin 4 - PostgreSQL Tools</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># Copyright (C) 2013 - 2024, The pgAdmin Development Team</span>
<span class="c1"># This software is released under the PostgreSQL Licence</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1">##########################################################################</span>
<span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;Integration hooks for server groups.&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">flask</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">render_template</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">url_for</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">flask.ext.security</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">current_user</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">pgadmin.settings.settings_model</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">db</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ServerGroup</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_nodes</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;Return a JSON document listing the server groups for the user&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="n">groups</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ServerGroup</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">query</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">filter_by</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">user_id</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">current_user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">id</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">value</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">group</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">groups</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">value</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;{&quot;id&quot;:</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s1">,&quot;label&quot;:&quot;</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s1">&quot;,&quot;icon&quot;:&quot;icon-server-group&quot;,&quot;inode&quot;:true},&#39;</span> \
<span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">id</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">group</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">value</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">value</span><span class="p">[:</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">value</span>
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