act-types 0.7.5

ACT type handling

ACT types

Introduction

These scripts are used to add types to the ACT data model (object types and fact types).

Installation

1. This project requires that you have a running installation of the act-platform.
2. Install from pip

pip install act-types

act-types usage

To bootstrap the type system with default types (userid/act-baseurl must point to ACT installation):

act-types \
    --userid 1 \
    --act-baseurl http://localhost:8888 \
    --loglevel ERROR \
    --default-object-types \
    --default-fact-types \
    --default-meta-fact-types \
    add

It is safe to rerun the command above, after new types have been added to the data model.

You can also add types from your own files, using --object-types-file, --fact-types-file and --meta-fact-types-file that points to a json file on the same format as the default types.

To print default types (replace with fact/meta-fact for other types):

act-types --default-object-types print

act-graph-datamodel usage

Build a graph (graphviz) of the ACT data model.

act-graph-datamodel --help
usage: act-graph-datamodel [-h] [--uid UID] [--http_username HTTP_USERNAME]
                           [--http_password HTTP_PASSWORD]
                           [--parent_id PARENT_ID]
                           [--confluence_url CONFLUENCE_URL]
                           [--confluence_user CONFLUENCE_USER]
                           [--confluence_password CONFLUENCE_PASSWORD]
                           url

Local development

Use pip to install in local development mode. act-types (and act-api) uses namespacing, so it is not compatible with using setup.py install or setup.py develop.

In repository, run:

pip3 install --user -e .

It is also necessary to install in local development mode to correctly resolve the files that are read by the --default-* options when doing local changes. These are read from etc under act.types and if the package is installed with "pip install act-types" it will always read the files from the installed package, even though you do changes in a local checked out repository.