Rainforest Connection SDK for Python

If you are would like to use the SDK then please see the documentation or try an example.

This README is designed for developers who are building or contributing to the SDK.

Setup your development environment

The easiest way (if you have Docker installed) is to first build the docker image:

docker build -t rfcx-sdk-python .

Then run scripts directly, for example:

docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/package-rfcx:/usr/src/app rfcx-sdk-python python example.py

Or run a terminal and execute scripts inside the container:

docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/package-rfcx:/usr/src/app rfcx-sdk-python bash

python example.py

(Scripts like example.py in the root directory can import rfcx from the source -- making it easy to develop new SDK features.)

Packaging for distribution

To build a new version:

1. Increment the version in the package setup.py files (for whichever package you want to distribute, e.g. package-rfcx/setup.py or package-rfcxtf/setup.py).

2. Remove existing files rm -r package-rfcx*/dist

3. Create a distribution (source and wheel) through docker for each package you want to distribute:

   docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/package-rfcx:/usr/src/app rfcx-sdk-python python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

   docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/package-rfcxtf:/usr/src/app rfcx-sdk-python python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

   docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/package-rfcxutils:/usr/src/app rfcx-sdk-python python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

4. Upload to PyPI:

   First time only, install twine pip install --user --upgrade twine

   Then

   twine upload package-rfcx*/dist/* (or if it fails to find twine then python -m twine upload package-rfcx*/dist/*)

   Enter your username and password.

Testing

Unit tests

docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}:/usr/src/app rfcx-sdk-python python package-rfcxutils/setup.py test

Package tests

Simple test: pip install --no-deps rfcx

Better test:

• Create a new notebook/colab
• Run the following code:

  !pip install rfcx
  
  import rfcx
  
  rfcx.name

Building documentation

The documentation is generated from docstrings in the source code. To generate it, you have to build an image:

docker build -t rfcx-sdk-python .

and then run:

docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}:/usr/src/app rfcx-sdk-python pdoc3 --html --force --template-dir docs_src/template --output-dir docs package-rfcx/rfcx package-rfcxtf/rfcxtf package-rfcxutils/rfcxutils

Note: For windows, please switch to linux base terminal or Powershell before running the command

To generate a PDF:

docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}:/usr/src/app rfcx-sdk-python pdoc3 --pdf --force --template-dir docs_src/template package-rfcx/rfcx package-rfcxtf/rfcxtf package-rfcxutils/rfcxutils > docs.md
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/data pandoc/latex docs.md -o docs.pdf