ckanext-nhm

A CKAN extension for the Natural History Museum's Data Portal.

Overview

This extension provides theming and specific functionality for the Natural History Museum's Data Portal.

The codebase shows how to implement various plugins created by the Museum's developers; notably our new ElasticSearch datastore with versioned records.

Installation

Path variables used below:

• $INSTALL_FOLDER (i.e. where CKAN is installed), e.g. /usr/lib/ckan/default
• $CONFIG_FILE, e.g. /etc/ckan/default/development.ini

Pre-install setup

This package depends on ckanext-dcat==1.3.0, but since that isn't available on PyPI it's not listed in the package dependencies.

Install it with:

pip install git+https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-dcat@v1.3.0#egg=ckanext-dcat

Installing from PyPI

pip install ckanext-nhm

Installing from source

1. Clone the repository into the src folder:

   cd $INSTALL_FOLDER/src
   git clone https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ckanext-nhm.git
   

2. Activate the virtual env:

   . $INSTALL_FOLDER/bin/activate
   

3. Install via pip:

   pip install $INSTALL_FOLDER/src/ckanext-nhm
   

Installing in editable mode

Installing from a pyproject.toml in editable mode (i.e. pip install -e) requires setuptools>=64; however, CKAN 2.9 requires setuptools==44.1.0. See our CKAN fork for a version of v2.9 that uses an updated setuptools if this functionality is something you need.

Post-install setup

1. Add 'nhm' to the list of plugins in your $CONFIG_FILE:

   ckan.plugins = ... nhm
   

2. Install lessc globally:

   npm install -g "less@~4.1"
   

Configuration

Usage

Actions

record_show

Retrieve an individual record.

from ckan.plugins import toolkit

data_dict = {
    'resource_id': RESOURCE_ID,
    'record_id': RECORD_ID,
    'version': OPTIONAL_RECORD_VERSION,
}

toolkit.get_action('record_show')(context, data_dict)

object_rdf

Get record RDF from its occurrence ID.

from ckan.plugins import toolkit

data_dict = {'uuid': OCCURRENCE_ID, 'version': OPTIONAL_RECORD_VERSION}

toolkit.get_action('object_rdf')(context, data_dict)

Commands

create-dataset-vocabulary

Ensures the default dataset vocabulary and categories exists.

ckan -c $CONFIG_FILE nhm create-dataset-vocabulary

add-dataset-category

Adds the given category to the dataset category vocabulary.

ckan -c $CONFIG_FILE nhm delete-dataset-category $NAME

delete-dataset-category

Deletes the given dataset category from the vocabulary.

ckan -c $CONFIG_FILE nhm create-dataset-vocabulary $NAME

replace-resource-file

Replaces the file associated with $RESOURCE_ID with $PATH, e.g. to replace a small dummy file with a large one that was too big to upload initially.

ckan -c $CONFIG_FILE nhm replace-resource-file $RESOURCE_ID $PATH

Testing

There is a Docker compose configuration available in this repository to make it easier to run tests. The ckan image uses the Dockerfile in the docker/ folder.

To run the tests against ckan 2.9.x on Python3:

1. Build the required images:

   docker compose build
   

2. Then run the tests. The root of the repository is mounted into the ckan container as a volume by the Docker compose configuration, so you should only need to rebuild the ckan image if you change the extension's dependencies.

   docker compose run --rm ckan