HEA Server Registry Microservice
Research Informatics Shared Resource, Huntsman Cancer Institute,
Salt Lake City, UT
The HEA Server Registry Microservice manages mappings of HEA Object types to the microservices for storing and
retrieving them.
Version 1.4.0
- Added support for overhauled heaobject.storage.* classes.
Version 1.3.0
- Added support for new heaobject.activity.DesktopObjectSummaryView class.
Version 1.2.0
- Added support for Python 3.12.
Version 1.1.1
- Dependency upgrades for compatibility with heaserver-keychain 1.5.0.
Version 1.1.0
- Started using permissions for collections.
Version 1.0.4
Version 1.0.3
- Use the type display name in the properties card.
- Hide some other heaobject.registry.Collection attributes in the properties card.
Version 1.0.2
- When requesting desktop objects as a Collection+JSON document, add the permissions property to the document.
- Return the type_display_name attribute.
Version 1.0.1
- Made the collection object form template fields read-only, and added the type field.
Version 1
Initial release.
Runtime requirements
Development environment
Build requirements
- Any development environment is fine.
- On Windows, you also will need:
- On Mac, Xcode or the command line developer tools is required, found in the Apple Store app.
- Python 3.10 or 3.11: Download and install Python 3.10 from https://www.python.org, and select the options to install
for all users and add Python to your environment variables. The install for all users option will help keep you from
accidentally installing packages into your Python installation's site-packages directory instead of to your virtualenv
environment, described below.
- Create a virtualenv environment using the
python -m venv <venv_directory>
command, substituting <venv_directory>
with the directory name of your virtual environment. Run source <venv_directory>/bin/activate
(or <venv_directory>/Scripts/activate
on Windows) to activate the virtual
environment. You will need to activate the virtualenv every time before starting work, or your IDE may be able to do
this for you automatically. Note that PyCharm will do this for you, but you have to create a new Terminal panel
after you newly configure a project with your virtualenv. - From the project's root directory, and using the activated virtualenv, run
pip install wheel
followed by
pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
. Do NOT run python setup.py develop
. It will break your environment.
Running tests
Run tests with the pytest
command from the project root directory. To improve performance, run tests in multiple
processes with pytest -n auto
.
Running integration tests
Trying out the APIs
This microservice has Swagger3/OpenAPI support so that you can quickly test the APIs in a web browser. Do the following:
- Install Docker, if it is not installed already.
- Run the
run-swaggerui.py
file in your terminal. This file contains some test objects that are loaded into a MongoDB
Docker container. - Go to
http://127.0.0.1:8080/docs
in your web browser.
Once run-swaggerui.py
is running, you can also access the APIs via curl
or other tool. For example, in Windows
PowerShell, execute:
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://localhost:8080/components/ -Method GET -Headers @{'accept' = 'application/json'}`
In MacOS or Linux, the equivalent command is:
curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/components/ -H 'accept: application/json'
Packaging and releasing this project
See the RELEASING.md file for details.