Commands

Site administrator with shell access to the server can use these commands to interact with the recipes platform in an automated fashion.

Create a Project

Use the management command project to create a project from command line.

$ python manage.py project --help

usage: manage.py project [-h] --pid PID [--name NAME] [--info INFO] [--public]
                     [--update] [--version] [-v {0,1,2,3}]
                     [--settings SETTINGS] [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH]
                     [--traceback] [--no-color] [--force-color]

Creates a project.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --pid PID             Project id
  --name NAME           Project name
  --info INFO           File path or text of the project info
  --public              Makes project public
  --update              Updates the project selected by pid
  
  ...

Note: The owner of any project created from command line is an first admin user.

To create a sample project, run the command:

python manage.py project --name sample project --public --info "This is a sample" --pid sample

Granting Access

Adding collaborators can be done using the command line or the interface.

To add a user using command line use the managment command add_user:

$ python manage.py add_user --help --fname user_file.csv

usage: manage.py add_user [-h] [--fname FNAME] [--version] [-v {0,1,2,3}]
                          [--settings SETTINGS] [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH]
                          [--traceback] [--no-color] [--force-color]

Add users

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --fname FNAME         The CSV file with the users to be added. Must have
                        headers: Name, Email

With a sample csv file user_list.csv that looks like :

user 1,  user1@email
user 2,  user2@email

You can run the following command using the file:

python manage.py add_user --fname user_list.csv

Upload Data

Command line options:

  • Link a file directly from a hard drive

You can use the management command data to add or edit Data objects.

$ python manage.py data --help 

usage: manage.py data [-h] --pid PID [--did DID] [--update] [--path PATH]
                  [--text TEXT] [--name NAME] [--type TYPE] [--version]
                  [-v {0,1,2,3}] [--settings SETTINGS]
                  [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH] [--traceback] [--no-color]
                  [--force-color]

Adds data to a project

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --pid PID             Select project by unique uid
  --did DID             Select data by unique uid
  --update              Update the table of content for data --did.
  --path PATH           Path to the data to be added (file or directory)
  --text TEXT           A file containing the description of the data
  --name NAME           Sets the name of the data
  --type TYPE           Sets the type of the data

Link a sample directory, /path/to/data/, to an existing project with the uid project_one:

$ python manage.py data --pid project_one --path /path/to/data/ --name New data

Create a Recipe

Creating a recipe can be by directly upload json and script template to a given recipe.

Use the recipe management command to directly add to a project.

$ python manage.py recipe --help

usage: manage.py recipe [-h] --pid PID --rid RID [--json JSON]
                    [--template TEMPLATE] [--info INFO] [--name NAME]
                    [--image IMAGE] [--update] [--version] [-v {0,1,2,3}]
                    [--settings SETTINGS] [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH]
                    [--traceback] [--no-color] [--force-color]

Adds recipe to a project

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --pid PID             Project id.
  --rid RID             Recipe id.
  --json JSON           Recipe json path.
  --template TEMPLATE   Recipe template path (optional)
  --info INFO           Recipe description (optional)
  --name NAME           Recipe name
  --image IMAGE         Recipe image path
  --update              Updates the recipe

For example, the command below would add a recipe named New recipe to project with uid 1.

python manage.py recipe --pid 1 --name New recipe --json < interface file > --template < script template >