Required python packages (check requirements.txt):
- requests
- Flask
- Flask-SQLAlchemy
- Flask-Bootstrap
- marshmallow
- BeautifulSoup
- ijson
- xattr
Testing:
- mock
- nose
- httmock
Instructions:
git clone https://github.com/EudatHttpApi/http-api.git
# install cffi development package, e.g.
yum install libffi-devel
pip install -r requirements.txt
git clone https://code.google.com/p/irodspython/
# follow install instructions in irodspython/PyRods/
cd http-api
./db_create.py
python run.py
Find more detailed instructions including how to install in a virtualenv here: https://github.com/EudatHttpApi/http-api/wiki/Installation-guide
| Functionality | Support Level | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP GET | yes | |
| HTTP PUT | yes | |
| HTTP DELETE | yes | |
| HTTP POST | no | |
| CDMI GET | yes | containers and objects |
| CDMI PUT | partial | yes (containers) and yes, but very slow and resource-intensive (objects) |
| CDMI DELETE | yes | containers and objects |
| CDMI POST | no | |
| CDMI Object IDs | partial | creation works and gets saved, but you cannot access by object ID directly |
| Authentication | Username/Password | |
| PIDs | yes | stored in object user metadata |
| Registration | partial | works only for src URL that are free to read or user/password-protected |
Primarily all code has to adhere to PEP8 http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/.