Software Heritage - Storage
Abstraction layer over the archive, allowing to access all stored source code artifacts as well as their metadata.
Quick start
Dependencies
Python tests for this module include tests that cannot be run without a local Postgresql database, so you need the Postgresql server executable on your machine (no need to have a running Postgresql server). They also expect a cassandra server.
Debian-like host
$ sudo apt install libpq-dev postgresql-11 cassandraNon Debian-like host
The tests expect the path to cassandra to either be unspecified, it is then looked up at /usr/sbin/cassandra, either specified through the environment variable SWH_CASSANDRA_BIN.
Optionally, you can avoid running the cassandra tests.
(swh) :~/swh-storage$ tox -- -m 'not cassandra'Installation
It is strongly recommended to use a virtualenv. In the following, we consider you work in a virtualenv named swh. See the developer setup guide for a more details on how to setup a working environment.
You can install the package directly from pypi:
(swh) :~$ pip install swh.storage
[...]Or from sources:
(swh) :~$ git clone https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-storage.git
[...]
(swh) :~$ cd swh-storage
(swh) :~/swh-storage$ pip install .
[...]Then you can check it’s properly installed:
(swh) :~$ swh storage --help
Usage: swh storage [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Software Heritage Storage tools.
Options:
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
rpc-serve Software Heritage Storage RPC server.Tests
The best way of running Python tests for this module is to use tox.
(swh) :~$ pip install toxtox
From the sources directory, simply use tox:
(swh) :~/swh-storage$ tox
[...]
========= 315 passed, 6 skipped, 15 warnings in 40.86 seconds ==========
_______________________________ summary ________________________________
flake8: commands succeeded
py3: commands succeeded
congratulations :)Note: it is possible to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to specify the version of the JVM to be used by Cassandra. For example, at the time of writing this, Cassandra is meant to be run with Java 11. On Debian bookworm, one needs to manually install openjdk-11-jre-headless from bullseye or unstable and set the appropriate environment variable:
(swh) :~/swh-storage$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64
(swh) :~/swh-storage$ tox
[...]Development
The storage server can be locally started. It requires a configuration file and a running Postgresql database.
Sample configuration
A typical configuration storage.yml file is:
storage:
cls: postgresql
db: "dbname=softwareheritage-dev user=<user> password=<pwd>"
objstorage:
cls: pathslicing
root: /tmp/swh-storage/
slicing: 0:2/2:4/4:6which means, this uses:
a local storage instance whose db connection is to softwareheritage-dev local instance,
the objstorage uses a local objstorage instance whose:
root path is /tmp/swh-storage,
slicing scheme is 0:2/2:4/4:6. This means that the identifier of the content (sha1) which will be stored on disk at first level with the first 2 hex characters, the second level with the next 2 hex characters and the third level with the next 2 hex characters. And finally the complete hash file holding the raw content. For example: 00062f8bd330715c4f819373653d97b3cd34394c will be stored at 00/06/2f/00062f8bd330715c4f819373653d97b3cd34394c
Note that the root path should exist on disk before starting the server.
Starting the storage server
If the python package has been properly installed (e.g. in a virtual env), you should be able to use the command:
(swh) :~/swh-storage$ swh storage -C storage.yml rpc-serveThis runs a local swh-storage api at 5002 port.
(swh) :~/swh-storage$ curl http://127.0.0.1:5002
<html>
<head><title>Software Heritage storage server</title></head>
<body>
<p>You have reached the
<a href="https://www.softwareheritage.org/">Software Heritage</a>
storage server.<br />
See its
<a href="https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-storage/">documentation
and API</a> for more information</p>And then what?
In your upper layer (loader-git, loader-svn, etc…), you can define a remote storage with this snippet of yaml configuration.
storage:
cls: remote
url: http://localhost:5002/storage:
cls: pipeline
steps:
- cls: buffer
min_batch_size:
content: 10000
content_bytes: 104857600
directory: 1000
revision: 1000
- cls: filter
- cls: remote
url: http://localhost:5002/Cassandra
As an alternative to PostgreSQL, swh-storage can use Cassandra as a database backend. It can be used like this:
storage:
cls: cassandra
hosts:
- localhost
keyspace: swh
objstorage:
cls: pathslicing
root: /home/storage/swh-storage/
slicing: 0:2/2:4/4:6The Cassandra swh-storage implementation supports both Cassandra >= 4.0-alpha2 and ScyllaDB >= 4.4 (and possibly earlier versions, but this is untested).
While the main code supports both transparently, running tests or configuring the schema requires specific code when using ScyllaDB, enabled by setting the SWH_USE_SCYLLADB=1 environment variable.
Release files for swh.storage 4.3.0
For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.
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