ld4apps 0.9.3

Linked Data for Applications Server Library

LD4Apps is an Apache2 licensed Python library for Linked Data for Applications (LDA). LDA helps you implement applications that will be part of a bigger coherent system, for example a web-site made up of multiple applications that talk to each other. LDA applications are system components that communicate entirely through HTTP/REST interfaces.

Installation

To install LD4Apps:

pip install ld4apps

The LDA framework requires a running back-end database for storing application data. The default storage implementation uses MongoDB, so the fastest way to get started is to simply go to the MongoDB download page and download the appropriate version for your OS.

Once MongoDB has downloaded, execute the following commands:

cd <mongodb-installation-directory>/bin
mongod

At this point, MonoDB should be running and listening on its default host and port (localhost:27017).

To configure LDA with the MongoDB server, 3 environment variables also need to be set:

1. MONGODB_DB_HOST - hostname of the MONGODB server to use

2. MONGODB_DB_POST - the MONGDOB server port

3. APP_NAME - the name of you application, which is used as the DB name where the resources will be stored

Example

You can create a Linked-Data resource using the ld4apps.lda module like this:

>>> import os
>>> os.environ['MONGODB_DB_HOST'] = 'localhost'
>>> os.environ['MONGODB_DB_PORT'] = '27017'
>>> os.environ['APP_NAME'] = 'teststore'
>>> from ld4apps import lda
>>> foo_container_environ = {'HTTP_HOST': 'localhost', 'PATH_INFO': '/tst/foo', 'QUERY_STRING': ''}
>>> new_foo_resource = {'rdfs_label': 'my foo', 'rdf_type': 'http://example.org#Foo'}
>>> body, status, headers = lda.create_document(foo_container_environ, new_foo_resource, 'in_foo_container')
>>> status
201
>>> print json.dumps(body, indent=4)
{
    "ce_owner": "http://localhost/unknown_user/da36bb01-0d1c-438a-9d00-9940085aae20",
    "rdfs_label": "my foo",
    "in_foo_container": "http://localhost/tst/foo",
    "ce_lastModified": "2015-04-28T18:30:40.993176+00:00",
    "dc_created": "2015-04-28T18:30:40.993176+00:00",
    "ac_resource-group": "http://localhost/",
    "_subject": "http://localhost/tst/foo/3.2",
    "ce_revision": "0",
    "ce_lastModifiedBy": "http://localhost/unknown_user/da36bb01-0d1c-438a-9d00-9940085aae20",
    "dc_creator": "http://localhost/unknown_user/da36bb01-0d1c-438a-9d00-9940085aae20",
    "rdf_type": "http://example.org#Foo"
}

An example using ld4apps along with Flask to implement a simple, but complete, web-server can be found here: https://github.com/ld4apps/lda-examples/tree/master/todo-flask.

Documentation

Documentation is available at http://ld4apps.github.io/.