Tutorial: run a lister within docker-dev in just a few steps#
It is a good practice to run your new lister in docker-dev. This provides an almost production-like environment. Testing the lister in docker dev prior to deployment reduces the chances of encountering errors when turning it for production. Here are the steps you need to follow to run a lister within your local environment.
You must edit the docker-compose override file (
docker-compose.override.yml
). following the sample provided:version: '2' services: swh-lister: volumes: - "$SWH_ENVIRONMENT_HOME/swh-lister:/src/swh-lister"
The file named
docker-compose.override.yml
will automatically be loaded bydocker-compose
.Having an override makes it possible to run a docker container with some swh packages installed from sources instead of using the latest published packages from pypi. For more details, you may refer to README.md present inswh-docker-dev
.Follow the instruction mentioned under heading Preparation steps and Configuration file sample in README.md of swh-lister.
Add in the lister configuration the new
task_modules
andtask_queues
entry for the your new lister. You need to amend the docker/conf/lister.yml file to add the entries. Here is an example for GNU lister:celery: task_broker: amqp://guest:guest@amqp// task_modules: ... - swh.lister.gnu.tasks task_queues: ... - swh.lister.gnu.tasks.GNUListerTask
Make sure to run
storage (5002)
andscheduler (5008)
services locally. You may use the following command to run docker:~/swh-environment/swh-docker-dev$ docker-compose up -d
Add the lister task-type in the scheduler. For example, if you want to add pypi lister task-type:
~/swh-environment$ swh scheduler task-type add list-gnu-full \ "swh.lister.gnu.tasks.GNUListerTask" "Full GNU lister" \ --default-interval '1 day' --backoff-factor 1
You can check all the task-type by:
~/swh-environment$swh scheduler task-type list Known task types: list-bitbucket-incremental: Incrementally list BitBucket list-cran: Full CRAN Lister list-debian-distribution: List a Debian distribution list-github-full: Full update of GitHub repos list list-github-incremental: ...If your lister is creating new loading task not yet registered, you need to register that task type as well.
Run your lister with the help of scheduler cli. You need to add the task in the scheduler using its cli. For example, you need to execute this command to run gnu lister
~/swh-environment$ swh scheduler --url http://localhost:5008/ task add \ list-gnu-full --policy oneshot
After the execution of lister is complete, you can see the loading task created:
~/swh-environment/swh-lister$ swh scheduler task list
You can also check the repositories listed by the lister from the scheduler database in which the lister output is stored. To connect to the database:
~/swh-environment/docker$ docker-compose exec swh-scheduler bash -c \
'psql swh-scheduler -c "select url from listed_origins"'