There is no reference.json file created after running `pip install visionscript`

[VedantMadane]

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• I have searched the VisionScript issues and found no similar bug report.

What is the issue?

reference.json file was not created in site-packages after running pip install visionscript.
So I cloned the repo in another folder, copied the reference.json file into site-packages/visioncript.
Until then writing visionscript in the command line terminal produced following error:

  File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\visionscript\usage.py", line 4, in <module>
    with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "reference.json")) as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\users\\vedantm\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python38\\lib\\site-packages\\visionscript\\reference.json'

Environment

• VisionScript:
• OS: Windows
• Python 3.8

How can we replicate the bug?

pip install visionscript
visionscript

Additional

Additionally, after running visionscript --notebook notebook fails to start:

vedantm@vedantm MINGW64 /d/Projects/misc/visionscript (main)
$ visionscript --notebook
Starting notebook...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\vedantm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\Scripts\visionscript.exe_main.py", line 7, in
File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1157, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1078, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1434, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 783, in invoke
return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\visionscript\lang.py", line 2804, in main
from visionscript.notebook import app
File "c:\users\vedantm\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\visionscript\notebook.py", line 12, in
import qrcode
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'qrcode'
(base)

The reason given is qrcode module not found. But when installing qrcode, the requirement is already satisfied:

$ pip install qrcode
Requirement already satisfied: qrcode in d:\anaconda\lib\site-packages (7.4.2)
Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions in d:\anaconda\lib\site-packages (from qrcode) (4.6.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pypng in d:\anaconda\lib\site-packages (from qrcode) (0.20220715.0)
Requirement already satisfied: colorama in d:\anaconda\lib\site-packages (from qrcode) (0.4.6)
(base)

[oceanthrsty]

I had the same exact issue, and I did exactly what you did.

First I did a pip install visionscript and ran into the same issues.
So I cloned the repo, got the reference.json and copied it into my site-packages.

Re-ran it, got the missing qrcode module. But after installing, I was able to get past that point.
Then I got a message saying flask was missing, installed that.
Then I got pygtrie was missing
Then I got a message saying it needed cryptography library, installed that and finally was able to run visionscript --notebook.

However now I see:

raise TemplateNotFound(template)
jinja2.exceptions.TemplateNotFound: notebook.html

So I decided to just install the cloned repo.. and now I am up and running.
Need to add the following modules to the requirements.txt:

watchdog
qrcode
flask
cryptography
pygtrie

[capjamesg]

Thank you for the report; it is greatly appreciated! I will push a new version with the requisite dependencies. I also have to get CLIP installed as a post-setup dependency; CLIP not having a pip package makes the installation thereof more convoluted. I haven't seen the notebook error! Let me investigate.

[capjamesg]

I have just pushed visionscript==0.0.7 which includes fixes for the dependencies (including CLIP), and the missing JSON file. On my TODO list are to finish the FastSAM installation process (used by Segment[]), and to figure out why notebook.html isn't showing up properly.

[capjamesg]

@oceanthrsty Your listing out the dependencies that weren't installed was so helpful -- thank you!

[AndyPermaRobotics]

Hi,
I am new to visionscript and tried the install tutorial:

$> pip install visionscript

program.vic:
codeLoad["./image.jpg"]
Detect["person"]
Show[]

$> visionscript program.vic

I installed version 0.0.7, but I still got the missing reference.json error.
As well as a ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'roboflow' error.

[capjamesg]

Ah one more! I just added that dependency in the latest version to power https://visionscript.dev/roboflow/. I'll add that dependency and distribute a new version on PyPi.

[ad-si]

I'm still getting the No module named 'roboflow' error. Did you already upload the new version to PyPi @capjamesg?

[haydenflinner]

Given the current version on pip, this would be enough to get a notebook started.

pip install roboflow
sp=$(python -c 'import networkx; from pathlib import Path; print(Path(networkx.__file__).parent.parent)')
cd $sp/visionscript
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/capjamesg/visionscript/main/visionscript/reference.json
cd -

But there are two issues. First, the notebook hosts on all interfaces rather than just localhost. This is an insecure default. Second, I get this err: TemplateNotFound jinja2.exceptions.TemplateNotFound: notebook.html.

So it seems like static files in general are not being included in the pip package. You can test this install flow locally with pyenv (virtual envs) and using true pip install rather than pip install -e.