A few months ago I had an issue setting up mocking because I was
trying to be clever importing these libraries only when I needed
them rather than at the global scope. Someone pointed out to me
that if the imports are at the top of the file Falcon will load
them once when the WSGI server starts, whereas if they are in the
on_get() or on_post() they will load for every request! Also, it
seems that PEP8 recommends keeping imports at the top of the file
anyways, so I will just do that.
Imports sorted with isort.
See: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports
I thought it was clever to only import these in the on_post handler
because they aren't needed elsewhere, but it turns out that this is
not a common pattern and even causes problems with testability.
First, if the imports are at the top of the file as PEP8 recommends,
then the WSGI server will import them once when it loads the app and
they remain in memory for the lifecycle of the app. If the imports
are in the on_post handler they would be re-imported on every request!
Second, this pattern of importing in a method makes it tricky to use
object patching in mocks.
See: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports
You can now POST a JSON request to /items with a list of items and
a date range. This allows the possibility to get view and download
statistics for arbitrary items and arbitrary date ranges.
The JSON request should be in the following format:
{
"limit": 100,
"page": 0,
"dateFrom": "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"dateTo": "2020-09-09T00:00:00Z",
"items": [
"f44cf173-2344-4eb2-8f00-ee55df32c76f",
"2324aa41-e9de-4a2b-bc36-16241464683e",
"8542f9da-9ce1-4614-abf4-f2e3fdb4b305",
"0fe573e7-042a-4240-a4d9-753b61233908"
]
}
The limit, page, and date parameters are all optional. By default
it will use a limit of 100, page 0, and [* TO *] Solr date range.
We had previously been avoiding the f-strings because we needed to
run on Python 3.5 and they were only available in Python 3.6+, but
now the black formatter requires Python 3.6 and all our systems are
running Python 3.6+ anyways.
DSpace 6+ uses a UUID for item identifiers instead of an integer so
we need to adapt our PostgreSQL queries to use those. Note that we
can no longer sort results in the "all items" endpoint by ID. Also,
we need to use parameterized psycopg2 queries instead of strings to
support queries with UUIDs properly. To use the Python UUID objects
elsewhere in the code we need to make sure that we cast them to str.
Flake8 validates code style against PEP 8 in order to encourage the
writing of idiomatic Python. For reference, I am currently ignoring
errors about line length (E501) because I feel it makes code harder
to read.
This is the invocation I am using:
$ flake8 --ignore E501 dspace_statistics_api
I had imagined plugging in an interactive Swagger or OpenAPI instance
here, but that's actually much more involved in Falcon than I want to
deal with right now.
