FAQ

How do I override one of ConsoleMe's web routes, or add new routes just for my internal implementation of ConsoleMe?

You can add new routes or override existing routes in your implementation of ConsoleMe through the use of an internal plugin. ConsoleMe provides a set of default plugins that serve as an example of how you should implement your internal plugins.

Included in the default_plugins set is a list of internal routes and an example web handler. The routes defined here will take precedence over ConsoleMe's default routes.

How can I generate an AMI for ConsoleMe so I can deploy it to EC2?

We provide an example flow to generating an AMI based on ConsoleMe's default configuration. This should serve as a reference for you to create your own AMI. Here are the general steps you'd need to follow to get this running today. We are looking for contributions to make this process smoother:

1. Install Packer with the guidance here.

2. Retrieve AWS credentials locally (Place them in your ~/.aws/credentials file under the default profile, or set them as environment variables)

3. Place your custom configuration in a file called consoleme.yaml in your ConsoleMe directory

4. Run make create_amifrom your ConsoleMe directory. This process will compress the current directory and create an Ubuntu AMI for ConsoleMe

How do I generate models from the Swagger specification?

We use datamodel-code-generator to generate Pydantic models for ConsoleMe.

If you make changes to ConsoleMe's Swagger specification, you'll need to re-generate the Pydantic Models file with the following command:

 datamodel-codegen --target-python-version 3.8 --base-class consoleme.lib.pydantic.BaseModel --input swagger.yaml --output consoleme/models.py

How do I debug the unit tests?

To run tests in PyCharm, the clearly superior Python development environment, you need to update your Debug configuration to include the following environment variables to assist with debugging:

• CONFIG_LOCATION=example_config/example_config_test.yaml (Required)

• ASYNC_TEST_TIMEOUT=3600 (Optional for debugging the RESTful code without having to worry about timeouts)

Run make test or make testhtml to run unit tests

How do I release a new version of ConsoleMe

ConsoleMe uses setupmeta for versioning, utilizing the devcommit strategy. This project adheres to SemVer standards for major, minor, and patch versions. setupmeta diverges from SemVer slightly for development versions.

When you're ready to release patch changes on master:

python setup.py version --bump minor --commit --push

When you're ready to release minor changes on master:

python setup.py version --bump minor --commit --push

When you're ready to release major changes on master (rare, reserved for breaking changes):

python setup.py version --bump major --commit --push

How do I update ConsoleMe's Python dependencies?

To update Python dependencies, run this command:

make up-reqs

If you're using Python 3.8 and trying to run this command on Mac, you may need to run PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib/pkgconfig" make up-reqs which forces pkgconfig to use brew's xmlsec instead of the MacOS xmlsec (Details: https://github.com/mehcode/python-xmlsec/issues/111)

If an updated package causes an incompatibility issue, please identify the issue, pin the older version in ConsoleMe's requirements.in file, and add a comment identifying the issue you encountered.

How can I run and debug my local DynamoDB container?

Running docker-compose -f docker-compose-dependencies.yaml up in the root directory will enable local dynamodb and local Redis.

To install a web interface to assist with managing local dynamodb, install dynamodb-admin with the following command, then visit http://localhost:8001 to view the contents of your local DynamoDB.

npm install dynamodb-admin -g

# You need to tell dynamodb-admin which port dynamodb-local is running on when running dynamodb-admin
DYNAMO_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:8005 dynamodb-admin