Deploy gyft2 as a web service

[athityakumar]

Instead of cloning the repo and running the script, we could rather have students uploading their downloaded html file to our website and downloading an ICS file in return. A simple flask app, with no db requirements and just providing an ICS file to download would do. 😄

WDYT?

[xypnox]

It is a great idea. 👍

[Raghwendra-Dey]

Could i try to make a django app for this?
The app could be simple like only a file upload option and two questions whether they are uploading the data.txt file or the timetable.html file, and if html file then whether they want the ics or data.txt output.

[athityakumar]

@Raghwendra-Dey - Hmm, but Django is pretty heavy. And as our use-case is pretty simple with very minimal requirements (no db, just 1 route) - I think it makes more sense to go with something lighter like flask. 😄

[Raghwendra-Dey]

@athityakumar but without db how will we take the timetable of the user as input?

[athityakumar]

I thought we'd be computing everything in memory and just provide a downloadable ICS file. What do you think of storing in db?

[Raghwendra-Dey]

I am not thinking of storing anything but, to get the html timetable of the user we need some db no? where the user would be submitting the timetable through forms and then after processing we offer them to download the ics file and then delete their timetable.