Apache Airavata Django Portal

The Airavata Django Portal is a web interface to the Apache Airavata API implemented using the Django web framework. The intention is that the Airavata Django Portal can be used as is for a full featured web based science gateway but it can also be customized through various plugins to add more domain specific functionality as needed.

Getting Started

The following steps will help you quickly get started with running the Airavata Django Portal locally. This will allow you to try it out and can also be used as a development environment. If you just want to run the Airavata Django Portal locally, see the Docker instructions below for a more simplified approach.

The Airavata Django Portal is developed with Python 3.6 but should also work with 3.4 and 3.5. You'll need one of these versions installed locally.

You'll also need Node.js and yarn to build the JavaScript frontend code. Please install the most recent LTS version of Node.js and the Yarn package manager.

1. Checkout this project and create a virtual environment.

   git clone https://github.com/apache/airavata-django-portal.git
   cd airavata-django-portal
   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

   • macOS note: to install the MySQL dependencies you need to have the MySQL development headers and libraries installed. Also, on macOS you need to have openssl installed. See the mysqlclient-python installation notes for more details.

2. Create a local settings file. Copy django_airavata/settings_local.py.sample to django_airavata/settings_local.py and edit the contents to match your Keycloak and Airavata server deployments.

   cp django_airavata/settings_local.py.sample django_airavata/settings_local.py
   

3. Run Django migrations

   python manage.py migrate
   

4. Build the JavaScript sources. There are a few JavaScript packages in the source tree, colocated with the Django apps in which they are used. The build_js.sh script will build them all.

   ./build_js.sh
   

5. Load the default Wagtail CMS pages.

   python manage.py load_default_gateway
   

6. Run the server

   python manage.py runserver
   

   • Note: if you want to use OpenID Connect authentication from the Django Portal when running it locally, you'll need to first set the following environment to allow OAuth over insecure HTTP:

     ```
     export OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT=1
     ```
     

7. Point your browser to http://localhost:8000.

Docker instructions

To run the Django Portal as a Docker container, you need a settings_local.py file which you can create from the settings_local.py.sample file. Then run the following:

1. Build the Docker image.

   docker build -t airavata-django-portal .
   

2. Run the Docker container.

   docker run -d \
     -v /path/to/my/settings_local.py:/code/django_airavata/settings_local.py \
     -p 8000:8000 airavata-django-portal
   

3. Load an initial set of Wagtail pages (theme). You only need to do this when starting the container for the first time.

   docker exec CONTAINER_ID python manage.py load_cms_data default
   

4. Point your browser to http://localhost:8000.

Documentation

Documentation currently is available at https://apache-airavata-django-portal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (built from the 'docs' directory).

To build the documentation locally, first set up a development environment, then run the following in the root of the project:

mkdocs serve

Feedback

Please send feedback to the mailing list at [email protected]. If you encounter bugs or would like to request a new feature you can do so in the Airavata Jira project (just select the Django Portal component when you make your issue).

Contributing

For general information on how to contribute, please see the Get Involved section of the Apache Airavata website.

Setting up development environment

Run pip install -r requirements-dev.txt to install development and testing libraries.

Use a code editor that integrates with editorconfig and flake8. I also recommend autopep8 for automatically formatting code to follow the PEP8 guidelines.

License

The Apache Airavata Django Portal is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. For more information see the LICENSE file.