CaveView status is now documented

core/views/caves.py

@@ -219,9 +219,9 @@ def rendercave(request, cave, slug, cave_id=''):
         
         # NOTE the template itself loads the 3d file using javascript before it loads anything else.
         # Django cannot see what this javascript is doing, so we need to ensure that the 3d file exists first.
-        # run this just for the side-effect of generating the 3d file? Nope, crashes. 
-        # TO DO - restructure this so that the regeneration is callable from here.
-        #discard_response = cave3d(request, cave_id=cave_id)
+        # So only do this render if a valid .3d file exists. TO BE DONE
+        # see design docum in troggle/templates/cave.html
+        # see rendercave() in troggle/core/views/caves.py
         templatefile = 'cave.html'
         if request.user.is_authenticated:
             editable = True

templates/cave.html

@@ -3,11 +3,33 @@
 {% block extraheaders %}
 {% if cave.survex_file %}
 
-<!--# This is presumably very similar caveview.css but why is it copied here ?
+<!--
+#Wookey says (Nov.2021) that the CaveView integration was done by Martin Green
+#at an expo training weekend.
+# This design assumes that all .3d files are in the same folder, as
+# specified by THREEDCACHEDIR in localsettings.py which implicitly is
+# assuming that all survex files have unique filenames - which is not true
+#  there are about 20 duplicates, see report items in DataIssues 
+# http://expo.survex.com/pathsreport
+# http://expo.survex.com/dataissues
+
+# This also means that all survex files must be individually run through survex, 
+# (which takes as much time as the rest of the import procedure for all data).
+# Olly says it would be more accurate to just produce one 1623.3d and then to
+# separate out the bit for each cave. He's right: we are losing the corrections
+# from adjacent caves and surface surveys doing it this way.
+# The code is RunSurvexIfNeeded() in parsers/survex.py
+
+# SUGGESTION we shuld just ditch and put ever .3d file in the same folder as 
+# the .svx file, using the {{svx3d}} template variable set in rendercave() in 
+# core/views/caves.py but with a full path.
+
+
+# This css code below is very similar caveview.css but why is it copied here ?
 # Because it is NOT exactly the same as the distrubuted CaveView code.
-#e.g. the body {} bit in Caveview/css/caveview.css is missing here:
-# Needs to be separated out into JSLIB local. (PMS 27/4/2021)
--->
+# e.g. the body {} bit in Caveview/css/caveview.css is missing here:
+
+#-->
 <style>
 
 div.cv-panel {
@@ -426,7 +448,7 @@ div#scene {
         CV.UI.init( 'scene', {
             home: '/javascript/CaveView/',
             surveyDirectory: '/expowebcache/3d/',
-            terrainDirectory: '/loser/surface/terrain/'  // cannot work, apache not handling this
+            terrainDirectory: '/loser/surface/terrain/'  // cannot work, apache not handling this url
         } );
 
         // load a single survey to display