service-control

Branch	Status
develop
master

Table of Content

• Table of Content
• Summary of the project
• Local development
  • Dependencies
  • Setup
• Local Development
  • vs code Integration
    • Debug from vs code
    • Run tests from within vs code
• Type Checking
  • Mypy
  • Library types

Summary of the project

service-control provides and manages the verified permissions. TBC

Local development

Dependencies

Prerequisites on host for development and build:

• python version 3.12
• pipenv
• docker and docker compose

Setup

To create and activate a virtual Python environment with all dependencies installed:

make setup

To start the local postgres container, run this:

make start-local-db

You may want to do an initial sync of your database by applying the most recent Django migrations with

app/manage.py migrate

Cognito

This project uses Amazon Cognito user identity and access management. It uses a custom user attribute to mark users managed_by_service by this service.

To synchronize all local users with cognito, run:

app/manage.py cognito_sync

Local Cognito

For local testing the connection to cognito, cognito-local is used. cognito-local stores all of its data as simple JSON files in its volume (.volumes/cognito/db/).

You can also use the AWS CLI together with cognito-local by specifying the local endpoint, for example:

aws --endpoint $COGNITO_ENDPOINT_URL cognito-idp list-users --user-pool-id $COGNITO_POOL_ID

Importing Data from the BOD

The "Betriebsobjekte Datenbank" (BOD) is a central database for running and configuring the map viewer and some of its services. It contains metadata and translations on the individual layers and configurations for display and serving the data through our services such as Web Map Service (WMS), Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) and our current api (mf-chsdi3/api3).

You can import a BOD dump and migrate its data:

make setup-bod
make import-bod file=dump.sql
app/manage.py bod_migrate

To generate more BOD models, run:

app/manage.py inspectdb --database=bod

The BOD models are unmanaged, meaning Django does not manage any migrations for these models. However, migrations are still needed during tests to set up the test BOD. To achieve this, it is necessary to create migrations for the models and dynamically adjust the managed flag based on whether the tests or the server is running (django.conf.settings.TESTING). Since these migrations are only for testing purposes, the previous migration file can be removed and recreated:

rm app/bod/migrations/0001_initial.py
app/manage.py makemigrations bod

Afterward, the managed flag needs to be set to django.conf.settings.TESTING in both the models and the migrations.

Local Development

vs code Integration

There are some possibilities to debug this codebase from within visual studio code.

Debug from vs code

In order to debug the service from within vs code, you need to create a launch-configuration. Create a folder .vscode in the root folder if it doesn't exist and put a file launch.json with this content in it:

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "Python Debugger: Attach",
      "type": "debugpy",
      "request": "attach",
      "justMyCode": false,
      "connect": {
        "host": "localhost",
        "port": 5678
      }
    }
  ]
}

Alternatively, create the file via menu "Run" > "Add Configuration" by choosing

• Debugger: Python Debugger
• Debug Configration: Remote Attach
• Hostname: localhost
• Port number: 5678

Now you can start the server with make serve-debug. The bootup will wait with the execution until the debugger is attached, which can most easily done by hitting F5.

Run tests from within vs code

The unit tests can also be invoked inside vs code directly (beaker icon). To do this you need to have the following settings either in .vscode/settings.json or in your workspace settings:

  "python.testing.pytestArgs": [
    "app"
  ],
  "python.testing.unittestEnabled": false,
  "python.testing.pytestEnabled": true,

You can also create this file interactively via menu "Python: Configure Tests" in the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).

For the automatic test discovery to work, make sure that vs code has the Python interpreter of your venv selected (.venv/bin/python). You can change the Python interpreter via menu "Python: Select Interpreter" in the Command Palette.

Type Checking

Mypy

Type checking can be done by either calling mypy or the make target:

make type-check

This will check all files in the repository.

Library types

For type-checking, the external library mypy is being used. See the type hints cheat sheet for help on getting the types right.

Some 3rd party libraries need to have explicit type stubs installed for the type checker to work. Some of them can be found in typeshed. Sometimes dedicated packages exist, as is the case with django-stubs.

If there aren't any type hints available, they can also be auto-generated with stubgen