ogcldapi-testclient 0.5

A test client (command line program) for implementations of the "OGC LD API" which is a variant of the standardised OGC API: Features that delivers OGC API data and also Linked Data..

OGC LD API Test Client

A test client (command line program) for implementations of the "OGC LD API" which is a variant of the standardised OGC API: Features that delivers OGC API data and also Linked Data.

1. Installation
2. Use
3. License
4. Citation
5. Contacts

This test client performs tests against a target API instance and reports test passing, failure and failure messages.

It has no Python Package Index dependencies (Standard Library modules only) so should run directly with only a basic Python installation.

Installation

This program runs as a Python 3, command line utility and has only been tested on Unix/Linux systems but should run just fine on Windows too.

Use

work in progress

The program can be run as a Python script on the command line or via the tc.sh shell script in the bin/ folder.

The command line arguments (Python & shell) are:

Flag	Input values	Requirement	Notes
api_home positional arg	URI of an API instance to test	Required
-r / --requirements	Perform the OGC APIs Requirements tests	Optional
-as / --abstracttests	Perform the OGC APIs Abstract Tests tests	Optional
-a / --alltests	Perform all tests	Optional
-l / --log	How to log: screen, file, both	Optional	Default: screen

License

This code is licensed using the GPL v3 licence. See the LICENSE file for the deed.

Note Citation below for attribution.

Citation

To cite this software, please use the following BibTex:

@software{10.5281/zenodo.xxxxx,
  author = {{Nicholas J. Car}},
  title = {OGC LD API Test Client},
  version = {0.5},
  date = {2020},
  publisher = "SURROUND Australia Pty. Ltd.",
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.xxxxx},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.xxxxx}
}

Or the following RDF:

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@prefix wiki: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

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    sdo:codeRepository <https://github.com/surroundaustralia/ogcapild-testclient> ;
    dcterms:type wiki:Q7397 ; # "software"
    dcterms:creator "Nicholas J. Car" ;
    dcterms:date "2020"^^xsd:gYear ;
    dcterms:title "OGC LD API Test Client" ;
    sdo:version "0.5" ;
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.

Contacts

publisher:

SURROUND Australia Pty. Ltd.
https://surroundaustralia.com

creator:
Dr Nicholas J. Car
Data Systems Architect
SURROUND Australia Pty. Ltd.
[e-mail]