An outline of the architecture for a multi-directory file-system in IPython notebook's dashboard.

multidirectory.md

Architecture of IPython notebook's Dashboard

The tables below show the current RESTful web service architecture implemented in IPython notebook. The listed URL's use the HTTP verbs to return representations of the desired resource.

We are in the process of creating a new dashboard architecture for the IPython notebook, which will allow the user to navigate through multiple directory files to find desired notebooks.

Current Architecture

This chart shows the web-services in the single directory IPython notebook.

HTTP verb	URL	Action
GET	/notebooks	returns list of dicts with each notebook's info
POST	/notebooks	if sending a body, saving that body as a new notebook; if no body, create a new notebooks
GET	/notebooks/<notebook_id>	get JSON data for notebook
PUT	/notebooks/<notebook_id>	saves an existing notebook with body data
DELETE	/notebooks/<notebook_id>	deletes the notebook with the given ID

This chart shows the architecture for the IPython notebook website.

HTTP verb	URI	Action
GET	/	navigates user to dashboard of notebooks and clusters
GET	/<notebook_id>	go to webpage for that notebook
GET	/new	creates a new notebook with profile (or default, if no profile exists) settings
GET	/<notebook_id>/copy	opens a duplicate copy of the notebook with the given ID in a new tab
GET	/<notebook_id>/print	prints the notebook with the given ID; if notebook ID doesn't exist, displays error message
GET	/login	navigates to login page; if no user profile is defined, it navigates user to dashboard
GET	/logout	logs out of current profile, and navigates user to login page

This chart shows the Web services that act on the kernels and clusters.

HTTP verb	URL	Action
GET	/kernels	return the list of kernel ID's currently running
GET	/kernels/<kernel_id>	---
GET	/kernels/<kernel_id>/<kernel_action>	performs action (restart/kill) kernel with given ID
GET	/kernels/<kernel_id>/iopub	---
GET	/kernels/<kernel_id>/shell	---
GET	/rstservice/render	---
GET	/files/(.*)	---
GET	/clusters	returns a list of dicts with each cluster's information
POST	/clusters/<profile_id>/<cluster_action>	performs action (start/stop) on cluster with given profile ID
GET	/clusters/<profile_id>	returns the JSON data for cluster with given profile ID