ckanext-short-urls

This extensions creates a short permanent urls for datasets and resources so they can be referenced in articles and other places. https://yourckan.org/link/xxxx -> https://yourcan.org/dataset/my-dataset/resource/xyz

Requirements

The extension has been developed and tested with CKAN 2.9 + python3

Installation

To install ckanext-short-urls:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

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

2. Install the extension

   pip install ckanext-short-urls

3. [optional] Or install from source:

   git clone https://github.com/fjelltopp/ckanext-short-urls.git cd ckanext-short-urls pip install -e . pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Add short-urls to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini).

5. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

   sudo service apache2 reload
   

6. Initialize the extensions db

   ckan -c ckan.ini short-urls initdb
   

Migration of already existing datasets and resources

You can create short urls for all already existing datasets and resources with the command:

ckan -c ckan.ini short-urls migrate

Developer installation

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

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

Tests

To run the tests, do:

pytest --ckan-ini=test.ini

Releasing a new version of ckanext-short-urls

If ckanext-short-urls should be available on PyPI you can follow these steps to publish a new version:

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

2. Make sure you have the latest version of necessary packages:

   pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel twine

3. Create a source and binary distributions of the new version:

   python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel && twine check dist/*
   

   Fix any errors you get.

4. Upload the source distribution to PyPI:

   twine upload dist/*
   

5. Commit any outstanding changes:

   git commit -a
   git push
   

6. 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 0.0.1 then do:

   git tag 0.0.1
   git push --tags
   

License

AGPL