cattle_grid 0.5.4

Middleware for the Fediverse

cattle_grid

THIS README needs to be updated for cattle_grid 0.2.0

cattle_grid is meant to simplify handling authentication in server to server communication of the Fediverse. cattle_grid checks the HTTP signatures based on the headers. For this public keys are retrieved and cached.

For installation instructions see the documentation.

Development

Testing

You can run the pytest tests via

uv run pytest

or in watch mode

uv run ptw .

Running behave tests

Build the container via

./update_docker.sh

This script uses the requirements from pyproject.toml via uv export to install python dependencies in the container. This means this script needs to be rerun, if you make changes to the dependencies. Startup the docker environment via

docker compose up

Open a runner container

docker compose run --rm --name runner cattle_grid_app /bin/sh

Inside this container, you now run

fediverse-features
behave

The first step downloads some features from fediverse-features and the second step runs the test suite.

Building end 2 end reports (as done by CI)

The process to build the end to end reports is described here. The reports should be published to this repository and then made available here.

Running as stand alone

Create a requirements.txt file and start a virgin docker container

uv export --no-editable --no-emit-project --no-hashes --no-dev > requirements.txt
docker run --rm -ti -p 8000:8000\
    -v ./cattle_grid:/app/cattle_grid\
    -v ./requirements.txt:/app/requirements.txt \
    --workdir /app\
    helgekr/bovine:python3.13 /bin/sh

Once inside the docker container install dependencies

pip intall -r requirements.txt

and run cattle_grid via

uvicorn cattle_grid:create_app --factory --host 0.0.0.0

This currently fails.