CKAN Service Provider

A library for making web services that make functions available as synchronous or asynchronous jobs. Used by DataPusher.

Getting Started

To install ckanserviceprovider for development:

git clone https://github.com/ckan/ckan-service-provider.git
cd ckan-service-provider
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

To get started making a web service with ckanserviceprovider have a look at /example. You can run the example server with python example/main.py example/settings_local.py.

For a real-world example have a look at DataPusher.

Running the Tests

To run the ckanserviceprovider tests:

nosetests

Building the Documentation

To build the ckanserviceprovider docs:

python setup.py build_sphinx

Releasing a New Version

To release a new version of ckanserviceprovider:

1. Increment the version number in setup.py

2. Build a source distribution of the new version and publish it to PyPI:

   python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
   pip install --upgrade twine
   twine upload dist/*
   

   You may want to test installing and running the new version from PyPI in a clean virtualenv before continuing to the next step.

3. Commit your setup.py changes to git, tag the release, and push the changes and the tag to GitHub:

   git commit setup.py -m "Bump version number"
   git tag 0.0.1
   git push
   git push origin 0.0.1
   

   (Replace both instances of 0.0.1 with the number of the version you're releasing.)

Authors

The original authors of ckanserviceprovider were David Raznick david.raznick@okfn.org and Dominik Moritz dominik.moritz@okfn.org. For the current list of contributors see github.com/ckan/ckan-service-provider/contributors