Displays for Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon, using vue.js
Available as web displays at:
This repository aims to scratch two current itches:
- Use a modern Javascript Framework to access the dictionaries at
the Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon.
- The javascript framework chosen is Vue 2 . I've tried learning enough of the React and Angular2 frameworks to do the same , but never got them working. Maybe other programmers with familiarity with other frameworks can translate these Vue examples.
- The access to Cologne data is via a call to its 'apidev' framework. The current work in this repository will suggest improvements to that api.
- Help me improve my Sanskrit vocabulary. The Basicv0.3 application provides
a simple way to gain access to the dictionaries using specialized word lists.
- In my case, I am reading Hitopadesha, and the wordlists will contain the words in that text, in order of the text. This should make it more efficient to use the dictionary in conjunction with reading that particular text.
- This Basicv0.3 application can be easily specialized to other learning goals. By forking this repository, and changing the wordlist, other non-programmers could create useful material for a variety of Sanskrit class materials.
The Cologne web site is currently HTTP, and does not support HTTPS. When making a javascript api call to the Cologne server from an HTTPS web site such as this one on GitHub, sometimes the connection will be blocked by a security feature. As a way to get around this, I made a small application on an HTTPS web site at https://www.pythonanywhere.com/; all this application does is pass along information to the Cologne site.
One current drawback is that the first call to pythonanywhere site sometimes times out, as my web-site has to, it seems, 'wake up'. If this happens to you in running Basicv0.3, etc., just repeat your call.
If enough people use adaptations of this code and have similar problems, I'll work on finding a more robust solution.
This is functionally like Basicv0.3 -- You get to choose a wordlist, and then can get dictionary lookups by clicking on the words in the wordlist. The difference is that the wordlists format is different.
- app_wordlists.js is a simple javascript file defining the array of
wordlists. Each wordlist in the array is a Javascript object literal
{name:'wordlist name', input:'spelling method', url:'url of wordlist file'} - The wordlists directory contains the files mentioned in the array
of wordlists. Thus, if app_wordslists.js specifies a wordlist as
{name:'My favorite words',input:'slp1',url:'../wordlists/favwords.txt'}, then there should be a file 'favwords.txt' in the wordlists directory. - The format of a wordlist file currently is:
- a file of lines, with one word on each line.
- each line can have other information, separated from the word by one or more spaces. This extra information is optional; if present it is not currently used by Basicv0.4
- Server required for Basicv0.4. This is in contrast to Basicv0.3,
which works even if index.html is opened on your local computer as a file.
An example on my computer of the 'file://' protocol for browser url:
- Works: file:///C:/Users/Jim/Documents/GitHub/sanlex-vue/basicv0.3/index.html
- Doesn't work: file:///C:/Users/Jim/Documents/GitHub/sanlex-vue/basicv0.4/index.html
The display here opens, but no wordlist can be chosen due to CORS error.