README.md

ScriptRepository Uploader Backend

Here you will find the web application that is responsible for interacting with Mantid and the scriptrepository to allow uploading of new files. It essentially acts as middleware to avoid Mantid having to directly interact with the GitHub API. The application itself uses only packages found in the Python standard library but it requires the git command to be accessible and executable.

The application can be run standalone but in production it is designed to be executed by a webserver supporting the wsgi interface.

The production instance is deployed to listed at https://upload.mantidproject.org.

Local Development Setup

For development locally we recommend using a conda environment:

> conda create -n scriptrepo_server python=3.8
> conda activate scriptrepo_server
> pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the tests using unittest:

> python -m unittest

Webserver Configuration Example: nginx

The webserver is required to support chunked-transfer encoding, e.g. wsgi >= 3.0.

See the ansible-linode nginx setup for an example of running this with nginx.