QWC Data Service

Edit spatial and unlocated features of datasets via GeoJSON.

This service is integrated into qwc-docker, consult qwc-services.github.io for the general qwc-services documentation.

Setup

Uses PostgreSQL connection service or connection to a PostGIS database. This connection's user requires read and write access to the configured tables.

qwc_demo example

Uses PostgreSQL connection service qwc_geodb (GeoDB). The user qwc_service_write requires read and write access to the configured tables of the data layers from the QGIS project qwc_demo.qgs.

Setup PostgreSQL connection service file ~/.pg_service.conf:

[qwc_geodb]
host=localhost
port=5439
dbname=qwc_demo
user=qwc_service_write
password=qwc_service_write
sslmode=disable

Configuration

The static config and permission files are stored as JSON files in $CONFIG_PATH with subdirectories for each tenant, e.g. $CONFIG_PATH/default/*.json. The default tenant name is default.

Data Service config

• JSON schema
• Example dataConfig.json

Permissions

• JSON schema
• File location: $CONFIG_PATH/<tenant>/permissions.json

Example:

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qwc-services/qwc-services-core/master/schemas/qwc-services-permissions.json",
  "users": [
    {
      "name": "demo",
      "groups": ["demo"],
      "roles": []
    }
  ],
  "groups": [
    {
      "name": "demo",
      "roles": ["demo"]
    }
  ],
  "roles": [
    {
      "role": "public",
      "permissions": {
        "data_datasets": [
          {
            "name": "qwc_demo.edit_points",
            "attributes": [
              "id",
              "name",
              "description",
              "num",
              "value",
              "type",
              "amount",
              "validated",
              "datetime"
            ],
            "writable": true,
            "creatable": true,
            "readable": true,
            "updatable": true,
            "deletable": true
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Usage

Set the CONFIG_PATH environment variable to the path containing the service config and permission files when starting this service (default: config).

Base URL:

http://localhost:5012/

Service API:

http://localhost:5012/api/

Sample requests:

curl 'http://localhost:5012/qwc_demo.edit_points/'

General Information for all operations

Datatypes-Encoding

JSON only defines recommendations or has no information concerning the encoding of some quite common used database data types. Following a description on how these are encoded in the data service API.

• Date: ISO date strings YYYY-MM-DD
• Datetime: ISO date/time strings YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
• UUID: Hex-encoded string format. Example: '6fa459ea-ee8a-3ca4-894e-db77e160355e'

Feature-ID

For operations like updating or deleting features, records are identified by a feature id. This id refers to the primary key of the database table and is usually kept constant over time.

Filter expressions

Query operations support passing filter expressions to narrow down the results. This expression is a serialized JSON array of the format:

[["<name>", "<op>", <value>],"and|or",["<name>","<op>",<value>],...]

• name is the attribute column name. If name begins with ?, the filter is only applied if the column name exists.

• op can be one of

  "=", "!=", "<>", "<", ">", "<=", ">=", "LIKE", "ILIKE", "IS", "IS NOT"
  

  The operators are applied on the original database types.

  If value is null, the operator should be IS or IS NOT.

• value can be of type string, int, float or null.

  For string operations, the SQL wildcard character % can be used.

Filter examples

• Find all features in the dataset with a number field smaller 10 and a matching name field: [["name","LIKE","example%"],"and",["number","<",10]]
• Find all features in the dataset with a last change before 1st of January 2020 or having NULL as lastchange value: [["lastchange","<","2020-01-01T12:00:00"],"or",["lastchange","IS",null]]

Docker usage

To run this docker image you will need a PostGIS database. For testing purposes you can use the demo DB.

The following steps explain how to download the demo DB docker image and how to run the qwc-data-service with docker-compose.

Step 1: Clone qwc-docker

git clone https://github.com/qwc-services/qwc-docker
cd qwc-docker

Step 2: Create docker-compose.yml file

cp docker-compose-example.yml docker-compose.yml

Step 3: Start docker containers

docker-compose up qwc-data-service

For more information please visit: https://github.com/qwc-services/qwc-docker

Development

Create a virtual environment:

virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 --system-site-packages .venv

Without system packages:

python3 -m venv .venv

Activate virtual environment:

source .venv/bin/activate

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start local service:

CONFIG_PATH=/PATH/TO/CONFIGS/ python src/server.py

Testing

Run all tests:

python test.py

Run single test module:

python -m unittest tests.feature_validation_tests

Run single test case:

python -m unittest tests.feature_validation_tests.FeatureValidationTestCase

Run single test method:

python -m unittest tests.feature_validation_tests.FeatureValidationTestCase.test_field_constraints