ckanext-ands 0.0.8

Mints DOI ids using ANDS

ckanext-ands

Allows submission of ANDS DOI requests for datasets.

Users can submit a DOI request which only sends an email to defined admins. Sysadmins can directly add a DOI to a dataset from the Dataset’s page via ANDS API.

Requirements

Tested with CKAN 2.5.1

Installation

To install ckanext-ands:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate

2. Install the ckanext-ands Python package into your virtual environment:

   pip install ckanext-ands

3. Add ands to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/production.ini).

4. Restart CKAN. For example if you’ve deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

   sudo service apache2 reload

Config Settings

The following are required:

ckanext.ands.DOI_API_KEY = xxyyzz
ckanext.ands.shared_secret = asdfasdf

# Email addresses to notify admins of a DOI request, comma separated
ckanext.ands.support_emails = [e-mail],[e-mail]

# THe publisher to use when submitting to ANDS
ckanext.ands.publisher = 'A publisher'

# The client ID proided by ANDS
ckanext.ands.client_id = 123123

# Set this to a URL you've enabled with ANDS, and requests from localhost will
# use this url instead, useful for debugging
ckanext.ands.debug_url = http://example.com

The following are optional (defaults are shown):

# DOI prefix to use for requests, defaults to ANDS default prefix
ckanext.ands.doi_prefix = 10.5072/
# Enable to add &debug=True to the tail of ANDS requests to get a bit more
# info back on errors
ckanext.ands.debug = False

Development Installation

To install ckanext-ands for development, activate your CKAN virtualenv and do:

git clone https://github.com/Psykar/ckanext-ands.git
cd ckanext-ands
python setup.py develop
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Running the Tests

To run the tests, do:

nosetests --nologcapture --with-pylons=test.ini

To run the tests and produce a coverage report, first make sure you have coverage installed in your virtualenv (pip install coverage) then run:

nosetests --nologcapture --with-pylons=test.ini --with-coverage --cover-package=ckanext.ands --cover-inclusive --cover-erase --cover-tests

Registering ckanext-ands on PyPI

ckanext-ands should be availabe on PyPI as https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ckanext-ands. If that link doesn’t work, then you can register the project on PyPI for the first time by following these steps:

1. Create a source distribution of the project:

   python setup.py sdist

2. Register the project:

   python setup.py register

3. Upload the source distribution to PyPI:

   python setup.py sdist upload

4. Tag the first release of the project on GitHub with the version number from the setup.py file. For example if the version number in setup.py is 0.0.1 then do:

   git tag 0.0.1
   git push --tags

Releasing a New Version of ckanext-ands

ckanext-ands is availabe on PyPI as https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ckanext-ands. To publish a new version to PyPI follow these steps:

1. Update the version number in the setup.py file. See PEP 440 for how to choose version numbers.

2. Create a source distribution of the new version:

   python setup.py sdist

3. Upload the source distribution to PyPI:

   python setup.py sdist upload

4. Tag the new release of the project on GitHub with the version number from the setup.py file. For example if the version number in setup.py is 0.0.2 then do:

   git tag -a 0.0.2
   git push --tags