DOCLIB

A document library that integrates with multiple data sources (like digiLocker, Google Drive, local storage etc.) and storage services (like S3 and Google Cloud Storage) and uploads data from these data sources to the chosen storage service. It can be integrated with any Django Project.

TECHNOLOGIES

• Python
• Django: Django builds better web apps with less code
• DRF: A powerful and flexible toolkit for building Rest APIs with Django
• Frontend: HTML5, Bootstrap, JS
• Architecture of the Library

CURRENT SUPPORTED SERVICES

DATA SOURCES

• Google Drive

• Local Storage

• Digimocker (mock of Digilocker)

STORAGE SERVICES

• Amazon S3

• Google Cloud Storage

QUICKSTART

Install the package

pip install django-doclib

Before running the server, make sure Directory looks like

demo_proj
├── credentials_dir
|      └── credentials_gcs.json
├── media
└── django_project_folder
    ├── settings.py
    ├── asgi.py
    ├── .env
    ├── wsgi.py
    └── urls.py

Follow the steps

1. Add doclib and rest_framework to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
   ...
   'doclib',
   'rest_framework',
   ]

2. Include the doclib URLconf in your project urls.py like this

   path('doclib/', include('doclib.urls'))

3. Provide MEDIA_ROOT in your project settings.py, something like this

   MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

4. For integrating with Google Drive

   • Make a directory with name credentials_dir at the project root level

   • Put the google api client secret json file with name as credentials_gcs.json in credentials_dir directory For getting the API and Developer keys, visit here.

   • Make a .env file in the project folder directory (at the project settings.py level) and put the Browser API keys obtained from the Google API Console like this (don’t use quotations around strings)

     DEVELOPER_KEY=##################
     CLIENT_ID=##################
     APP_ID=##################

5. For setting the environment variables, follow this

   • Add these below lines in the project settings.py

     import environ
     env = environ.Env()
     environ.Env.read_env()
     

   • For setting the above API Keys put these below lines in the settings.py

     DEVELOPER_KEY = env("DEVELOPER_KEY")
     CLIENT_ID     = env("CLIENT_ID")
     APP_ID        = env("APP_ID")
     

6. Run python manage.py migrate to create the doclib models.

7. Start the development server and visit http://localhost:8000/doclib/ to access the doclib.