botsislabutils 1.1.0

Commonly used utilities for Botsis Lab

The Botsis Lab Utilities package provides a set of commonly used tools within projects developed at the Botsis Lab at Johns Hopkins University.

Installation

The package can be installed using pip:

pip install botsislabutils

Available Modules

MySQL Interface

The mysql_interface module provides a set of functions for commonly used MySQL operations.

Dependencies:

• A set of environment variables for MySQL connection:
  • DATABASE_USER: MySQL username
  • DATABASE_PASS: MySQL password
  • DATABASE_HOST: MySQL host (default: localhost)
  • DATABASE_PORT: MySQL port (default: 3306)
  • DATABASE_SCHEMA_NAME: MySQL database name

Configuration

The config_manager module provides functions for reading and writing configuration to and from a MySQL database.

Dependencies:

• MySQL database connection (using the mysql_interface module).
• Table configuration in the database, which contains two columns: key and value.

Authorization

The authorization_manager module contains functions for interacting with users.

Dependencies:

• MySQL database connection (using the mysql_interface module).
• Table user_role in the database, which maps usernames to roles.

Authentication

The authentication_manager module provides functions for user authentication.

Dependencies:

• MySQL database connection (using the mysql_interface module).
• config_manager module for retrieving SSO configuration.
• Table user in the database, which contains a username column.
• Authorization module (to retrieve user roles).

Logging

The logger module provides a simple logging interface which prepends log messages with a timestamp.

Service Utility

The service_utility module provides functionality used by Flask services.

Dependencies:

• authentication_manager module for user authentication.
• authorization_manager module for user authorization.