Configuration

At startup, Magpie application will load multiple configuration files to define various behaviours or setup operations. These are defined though the configuration settings presented below.

All generic Magpie configuration settings can be defined through either the magpie.ini file or environment variables. Values defined in magpie.ini are expected to follow the magpie.[variable_name] format, and corresponding MAGPIE_[VARIABLE_NAME] format is used for environment variables. Both of these alternatives match the constants defined in constants.py and can be used interchangeably. Order of resolution will prioritize setting values over environment variables in case of duplicate configurations resulting into different values.

Configuration Files

File: magpie.ini

This is the base configuration file that defines most of Magpie’s lower level configuration. A basic example is provided in magpie.ini which should allow any user to run the application locally. Furthermore, this file is used by default in each tagged Docker image. If you want to provide different configuration, the file should be overridden in the Docker image using a volume mount parameter, or by specifying an alternative path through the environment variable MAGPIE_INI_FILE_PATH.

File: magpie.env

By default, Magpie will try to load a magpie.env file which can define further environment variable definitions used to setup the application (see MAGPIE_ENV_FILE setting further below). An example of expected format and common variables for this file is presented in magpie.env.example.

Important Notes:

If magpie.env cannot be found (using setting MAGPIE_ENV_FILE) but magpie.env.example is available (after resolving any previously set MAGPIE_ENV_DIR variable), this example file will be used to make a copy saved as magpie.env and will be used as the base .env file to load its contained environment variables. This behaviour is intended to reduce initial configuration and preparation of Magpie for a new user.

When loading variables from the .env file, any conflicting environment variable will NOT be overridden. Therefore, only missing but required values will be added to the environment to ensure proper setup of Magpie.

File: postgres.env

This file behaves exactly in the same manner as for magpie.env above, but for specific variables definition employed to setup the postgres database connection (see MAGPIE_POSTGRES_ENV_FILE setting below). File postgres.env.example and auto-resolution of missing postgres.env is identical to magpie.env case.

File: providers.cfg

This configuration file allows automatically registering Service definitions in Magpie at startup. When the application starts, it will look for corresponding services and add them to the database as required. It will also look for mismatches between the Service name and URL with the corresponding entry in the database to update it to the desired URL. See MAGPIE_PROVIDERS_CONFIG_PATH setting below to setup alternate references to this type of configuration. Please refer to the comment header of sample file providers.cfg for specific format and parameter details.

File: permissions.cfg

This configuration file allows automatically registering or cleaning Permission definitions in Magpie at startup. Each specified update operation is applied for the corresponding User or Group onto the specific Service or Resource. This file is processed after providers.cfg in order to allow permissions to be applied on freshly registered services. Furthermore, sub-resources are automatically created if they can be iteratively resolved with provided parameters of the corresponding permission entry (resources should be defined using tree-path in this case, see format in magpie.api.management.resources.resources_utils.get_resource_path()).

See MAGPIE_PERMISSIONS_CONFIG_PATH setting below to setup alternate references to this type of configuration. Please refer to the comment header of sample file permissions.cfg for specific format details as well as specific behaviour of each parameter according to encountered use cases.

Combined Configuration File

Since contents of all different configurations files (providers.cfg, permissions.cfg) reside under distinct top-level objects (of same name), it is actually possible to use an unique file to define everything. For example, one could define a combined configuration as follows.

# inside 'config.yml'

providers:
  some-service:
    url: http://${HOSTNAME}:8000
    title: Some Service
    public: true
    c4i: false
    type: api

groups:
  - name: my-group
    description: My Custom Group
    discoverable: false

users:
  - username: my-user
    group: my-group  # will reference above group

permissions:
  - service: api
    resource: /resource/user-resource  # will create both resources respecting children relationship
    permission: read
    user: my-user    # will reference above user
    action: create
  - service: api
    resource: /groups
    permission: read
    group: my-group  # will reference above group
    action: create

For backward compatibility reasons, Magpie will first look for separate files to load each section individually. To enforce using a combined file as above, either provide MAGPIE_CONFIG_PATH = <path>/config.yml or ensure that each specific environment variable MAGPIE_PROVIDERS_CONFIG_PATH and MAGPIE_PERMISSIONS_CONFIG_PATH point to the same actual file. For all of these variables, magpie.[variable_name] formatted settings are also supported through definitions within magpie.ini.

When loading configurations from a combined file, the order of resolution of each section is the same as when loading definitions from multiple files, meaning that providers are first registered, followed by individual permissions, with the dynamic creation of any missing user or group during this process. If an explicit user or group definition can be found under the relevant sections, additional parameters are employed for their creation. Otherwise defaults are assumed and only the specified user or group name are employed. Please refer to files providers.cfg and permissions.cfg for further details about specific formatting and behaviour of each available field.

Settings and Constants

Environment variables can be used to define all following configurations (unless mentioned otherwise with [constant] keyword next to the parameter name). Most values are parsed as plain strings, unless they refer to an activable setting (e.g.: True or False), or when specified with more specific [<type>] notation.

Configuration variables will be used by Magpie on startup unless prior definition is found within magpie.ini. All variables (i.e.: non-[constant] parameters) can also be specified by their magpie.[variable_name] setting counterpart as described at the start of the Configuration section.

Loading Settings

These settings can be used to specify where to find other settings through custom configuration files.

  • MAGPIE_MODULE_DIR [constant]

    Path to the top level Magpie module (ie: source code).

  • MAGPIE_ROOT [constant]

    Path to the containing directory of Magpie. This corresponds to the directory where the repository was cloned or where the package was installed.

  • MAGPIE_CONFIG_DIR
    (Default: ${MAGPIE_ROOT}/config)

    Configuration directory where to look for providers.cfg and permissions.cfg files.

  • MAGPIE_PROVIDERS_CONFIG_PATH
    (Default: ${MAGPIE_CONFIG_DIR}/providers.cfg)

    Path where to find providers.cfg file. Can also be a directory path, where all contained .cfg files will be considered as providers files and will be loaded sequentially.

    Note

    If a directory path is specified, the order of loaded configuration files is not guaranteed (depending on OS implementation). Please refer to providers.cfg for specific format details and loading methodology according to arguments.

  • MAGPIE_PERMISSIONS_CONFIG_PATH
    (default: ${MAGPIE_CONFIG_DIR}/permissions.cfg)

    Path where to find permissions.cfg file. Can also be a directory path, where all contained .cfg files will be considered as permissions files and will be loaded sequentially.

    Note

    If a directory path is specified, the order of loaded configuration files is not guaranteed (depending on OS implementation). Therefore, cross-file references to services or resources should be avoided to ensure that, for example, any parent resource dependency won’t be missing because it was specified in a second file loaded after the first. Corresponding references can be duplicated across files and these conflicts will be correctly handled according to configuration loading methodology. Please refer to permissions.cfg for specific format details and loading methodology according to arguments.

  • MAGPIE_CONFIG_PATH

    Path where to find a combined YAML configuration file which can include providers, permissions, users and groups sections to sequentially process registration or removal of items at Magpie startup.

    Note

    When provided, all other combinations of MAGPIE_CONFIG_DIR, MAGPIE_PERMISSIONS_CONFIG_PATH and MAGPIE_PROVIDERS_CONFIG_PATH are effectively ignored in favour of definitions in this file. See Combined Configuration File for further details and example.

  • MAGPIE_INI_FILE_PATH

    Specifies where to find the initialization file to run Magpie application.

    Note

    This variable ignores the setting/env-var resolution order since settings cannot be defined without firstly loading the file referenced by its value.

  • MAGPIE_ENV_DIR
    (Default: "${MAGPIE_ROOT}/env")

    Directory path where to look for .env files. This variable can be useful to load specific test environment configurations or to specify a local path while the actual Magpie code is located in a Python site-packages directory (.env files are not installed to avoid hard-to-resolve settings loaded from an install location).

  • MAGPIE_ENV_FILE
    (Default: "${MAGPIE_ENV_DIR}/magpie.env")

    File path to magpie.env file with additional environment variables to configure the application.

  • MAGPIE_POSTGRES_ENV_FILE
    (Default: "${MAGPIE_ENV_DIR}/postgres.env")

    File path to postgres.env file with additional environment variables to configure the postgres connection.

Application Settings

Following configuration parameters are used to define values that are employed by Magpie after loading the Loading Settings. All magpie.[variable_name] counterpart definitions are also available as described at the start of the Configuration section.

  • MAGPIE_URL
    (Default: "http://localhost:2001")

    Full hostname URL to use so that Magpie can resolve his own running instance location.

    Note

    If the value is not set, Magpie will attempt to retrieve this critical information through other variables such as MAGPIE_HOST, MAGPIE_PORT, MAGPIE_SCHEME and HOSTNAME. Modifying any of these variables partially is permitted but will force Magpie to attempt building the full URL as best as possible from the individual parts. The result of these parts (potential using corresponding defaults) will have the following format: "${MAGPIE_SCHEME}//:${MAGPIE_HOST}:${MAGPIE_PORT}".

  • MAGPIE_SCHEME
    (Default: "http")

    Protocol scheme URL part of Magpie application to rebuild the full MAGPIE_URL.

  • MAGPIE_HOST
    (Default: "localhost")

    Domain host URL part of Magpie application to rebuild the full MAGPIE_URL.

  • MAGPIE_PORT [int]
    (Default: 2001)

    Port URL part of Magpie application to rebuild the full MAGPIE_URL.

  • MAGPIE_SECRET
    (Default: 2001)

    Port URL part of Magpie application to rebuild the full MAGPIE_URL.

  • MAGPIE_CRON_LOG
    (Default: "~/magpie-cron.log")

    Path that the cron operation should use for logging.

  • MAGPIE_LOG_LEVEL
    (Default: INFO)

    Logging level of operations. Magpie will first use the complete logging configuration found in magpie.ini in order to define logging formatters and handler referencing to the logger_magpie section. If this configuration fail to retrieve an explicit logging level, this configuration variable is used instead to prepare a basic logger, after checking if a corresponding magpie.log_level setting was instead specified.

    Warning

    When setting DEBUG level or lower, Magpie will potentially dump some sensitive information in logs such as access tokens. It is important to avoid this setting for production systems.

  • MAGPIE_LOG_PRINT
    (Default: False)

    Specifies whether Magpie logging should also enforce printing the details to the console when using CLI helpers. Otherwise, the configured logging methodology in magpie.ini is used (which can also define a console handler).

  • MAGPIE_LOG_REQUEST
    (Default: True)

    Specifies whether Magpie should log incoming request details.

    Note

    This can make Magpie quite verbose if large quantity of requests are accomplished.

  • MAGPIE_LOG_EXCEPTION
    (Default: True)

    Specifies whether Magpie should log a raised exception during a process execution.

  • MAGPIE_UI_ENABLED
    (Default: True)

    Specifies whether Magpie graphical user interface should be available with the started instance. If disabled, all routes that normally refer to the UI will return 404, except the frontpage that will return a simple JSON description as it is normally the default entrypoint of the application.

  • MAGPIE_UI_THEME
    (Default: "blue")

    Specifies the adjustable theme to apply Magpie UI pages. This theme consist principally of the applied color for generic interface items, but could be extended at a later date. The value must be one of the CSS file names located within the themes subdirectory.

Security Settings

Following configuration parameters are used to define specific values that are related to security configurations. Again, the Loading Settings will be processed beforehand and all magpie.[variable_name] setting definitions remain available as described at the start of the Configuration section.

  • MAGPIE_SECRET .. no default since explicit value is now required

    Secret value employed to encrypt user authentication tokens.

    Warning

    Changing this value at a later time will cause previously created user tokens from passwords to be invalidated. This value MUST be defined before starting the application in order to move on to user accounts and permissions creation in your Magpie instance. The application will quit with an error if this value cannot be found.

    Changed in version 2.0.0: Prior to this version, a default value was employed if this setting not provided. Later Magpie version now require an explicit definition of this parameter to avoid weak default configuration making the protected system prone to easier breaches. This also avoids incorrect initial setup of special :term:`User`s with that temporary weak secret that would need recreation to regenerate passwords.

  • MAGPIE_COOKIE_NAME
    (Default: "auth_tkt")

    Identifier of the cookie that will be used for reading and writing in the requests from login and for user authentication operations.

  • MAGPIE_COOKIE_EXPIRE [int]
    (Default: None)

    Lifetime duration in seconds of the cookies. Tokens become invalid after this duration is elapsed.

    When no value is provided, the cookies will have an infinite duration (never expire). When a valid integer value is provided, their reissue time (how long until a new token is regenerated) is a factor of 10 from this expiration time. For example, tokens are reissued after 360 seconds if their expiration is 3600.

  • MAGPIE_ADMIN_USER .. no default since explicit value is now required

    Name of the default ‘administrator’ generated by the application.

    This User is required for initial launch of the application to avoid being ‘locked out’ as routes for creating new users require administrative access rights. It should be used as a first login method to setup other accounts. It is afterwards recommended to employ other user accounts with MAGPIE_ADMIN_GROUP membership to accomplish administrative management operations.

    If this User is missing, it is automatically recreated on following start. The best way to invalidate its credentials is therefore to completely remove its entry from the database so it gets regenerated from updated configuration values. Note also that modifying this value without actually updating the user entry in the database could cause other operations to fail drastically since this special user will be employed by other Magpie internal operations such as Service Synchronization and setup during the application startup.

    Changed in version 2.0.0: Prior to this version, a default value was employed if this setting was not provided. Later Magpie version now require an explicit definition of this parameter to avoid weak default configuration making the protected system prone to easier breaches. This value MUST be defined before starting the application in order to resume to any other operation in your Magpie instance. The application will quit with an error if this value cannot be found. It is recommended that the developer configures every new instance with server-specific and strong credentials.

  • MAGPIE_ADMIN_PASSWORD .. no default since explicit value is now required

    Password of the default ‘administrator’ User generated by the application (see MAGPIE_ADMIN_USER details).

    Changed in version 2.0.0: Prior to this version, a default value was employed if this setting was not provided. Later Magpie version now require an explicit definition of this parameter to avoid weak default configuration making the protected system prone to easier breaches. This value MUST be defined before starting the application in order to resume to any other operation in your Magpie instance. The application will quit with an error if this value cannot be found. It is recommended that the developer configures every new instance with server-specific and strong credentials.

  • MAGPIE_ADMIN_EMAIL
    (Default: "${MAGPIE_ADMIN_USER}@mail.com")

    Email of the default ‘administrator’ generated by the application.

  • MAGPIE_ADMIN_GROUP
    (Default: "administrators")

    Name of the default ‘administrator’ Group generated by the application.

    Note

    To simplify configuration of future administrators of the application, all their Inherited Permissions are shared through this Group instead of setting individual permissions on each User. It is recommended to keep defining such higher level permissions on this Group to ease the management process of granted access to all their members, or in other words, to allow multiple administrators to manage Magpie resources with their respective accounts.

  • MAGPIE_ADMIN_PERMISSION [constant]
    (Value: "admin")

    Name of the Permission used to represent highest administration privilege in the application. It is one of the special Access Permissions known by the application (see also Route Access section).

  • MAGPIE_LOGGED_PERMISSION [constant]
    (Value: "MAGPIE_LOGGED_USER")

    New in version 2.0.0.

    Defines a special condition of Access Permissions related to the Logged User session and the targeted User by the request. See details in Route Access for when it applies.

  • MAGPIE_LOGGED_USER [constant]
    (Value: "current")

    Keyword used to define route resolution using the currently logged in user. This value allows, for example, retrieving the user details of the logged user with GET /users/${MAGPIE_LOGGED_USER} instead of having to find explicitly the GET /users/<my-user-id> variant. User resolution is done using the authentication cookie found in the request. If no cookie can be found, it defaults to the MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_USER value.

    Note

    Because the Logged User executing the request with this keyword is effectively the authenticated user, the behaviour of some specific paths can be slightly different than their literal user_name counterpart. For example, User details will be accessible to the Logged User (he can view his own information) but this same user will receive a forbidden response if using is ID in the path if he doesn’t have required privileges.

    Changed in version 2.0.0: Even without administrative access rights, the Logged User is allowed to obtain some additional details about the targeted User of the request path if it corresponds to itself. See MAGPIE_LOGGED_PERMISSION and Route Access for further details.

  • MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_USER
    (Default: "anonymous")

    Name of the default User that represents non logged-in user (ie: invalid or no Authentication token provided). This User is used to manage Public access to Service and Resource.

  • MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_PASSWORD [constant]
    (Default: ${MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_USER})

    Password of the default unauthenticated User. This value is not modifiable directly and is available only for preparation of the default user on startup.

  • MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_EMAIL
    Email of the default unauthenticated User.
    (Default: "${MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_USER}@mail.com")
  • MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_GROUP [constant]
    (Default: ${MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_USER})

    Special Group name that defines Public Access functionalities. All users are automatically member of this Public Group to obtain Inherited Permissions.

    This parameter is enforced to be equal to MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_USER. It is preserved for backward compatibility of migration scripts and external libraries that specifically refer to this parameter.

    Changed in version The: Group generated by this configuration cannot be modified to remove User memberships or change other metadata associated to it.

    Warning

    To set Public permissions, one should always set them on this Group instead of directly on MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_USER as setting them directly on that User will cause unexpected behaviours. See Public Access section for full explanation.

  • MAGPIE_EDITOR_GROUP
    (Default: "editors")

    Unused for the moment.

  • MAGPIE_USERS_GROUP
    (Default: "users")

    Name of a generic Group created to associate registered User memberships in the application.

    Changed in version 2.0.0: New User are NOT automatically added to this Group anymore. This Group remains available for testing and backward compatibility reasons, but doesn’t have any special connotation and can be modified just as any other normal Group.

    Prior versions of Magpie were adding every new User to that Group which made it no different than the behaviour fulfilled by MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_GROUP which they are also member of. Since MAGPIE_USERS_GROUP has no special meaning and is modifiable at any time (e.g.: users could be removed from it), it could not even be employed to ensure provision of permissions applied to all users (its original purpose), which is also equivalent to functionalities provided with Public permissions inherited by MAGPIE_ANONYMOUS_GROUP that is more specifically handled by Magpie for this purpose.

  • MAGPIE_USER_NAME_MAX_LENGTH [int]
    (Default: 64)

    Maximum length to consider a User name as valid. The name specified during creation will be forbidden if longer.

    Warning

    This value should not be greater than the token length used to identify a User to preserve internal functionalities.

  • MAGPIE_PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH
    (Default: 12)

    New in version 2.0.0: Minimum length of the password for User creation or update.

    Note

    Because of backward-compatibility requirements, passwords are not enforced this condition during login procedure as shorter passwords could have been used and not yet updated for older accounts.

  • MAGPIE_DEFAULT_PROVIDER [constant]
    (Value: "ziggurat")

    Name of the Provider used for login. This represents the identifier that is set to define how to differentiate between a local sign-in procedure and a dispatched one some known Authentication Providers.

Phoenix Settings

Following settings provide some integration support for Phoenix in order to synchronize its service definitions with Magpie services.

Warning

Support of Phoenix is fairly minimal. It is preserved for historical and backward compatibility but is not actively tested. Please submit an issue if you use it and some unexpected behaviour is encountered.

  • PHOENIX_USER
    (Default: "phoenix")

    Name of the user to use for Authentication in Phoenix.

  • PHOENIX_PASSWORD
    (Default: "qwerty")

    Password of the user to use for Authentication in Phoenix.

  • PHOENIX_HOST
    (Default: ${HOSTNAME}")

    Hostname to use for Phoenix connection to accomplish Authentication and Service Synchronization.

  • PHOENIX_PORT [int]
    (Default: 8443)

    Port to use for Phoenix connection to accomplish Authentication and Service Synchronization.

  • PHOENIX_PUSH
    (Default: True)

    Whether to push new Service Synchronization settings to the referenced Phoenix connection.

Twitcher Settings

Following settings define parameters required by Twitcher (OWS Security Proxy) in order to interact with Magpie services.

  • TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH
    (Default: "/ows/proxy")

    HTTP path used to define the protected (public) base path of services registered in Magpie that will be served by an existing Twitcher proxy application after Access Control List (ACL) verification of the Logged User.

    Note

    Using this parameter to define Twitcher’s path assumes that it resides under the same server domain as the Magpie instance being configured (ie: hostname is inferred from resolved value amongst MAGPIE_URL, MAGPIE_HOST, TWITCHER_HOST and HOSTNAME settings or environment variables).

    Warning

    Path is intended to be employed with Twitcher residing side-by-side with Magpie. Therefore, prefix /twitcher is added unless already explicitly provided. To employ another path without prefix, consider instead providing it with the full URL using TWITCHER_PROTECTED_URL parameter.

  • TWITCHER_HOST
    (Default: None)

    New in version 2.0.0.

    Specifies the explicit hostname to employ in combination with TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH to form the complete base service protected URL. Ignored if TWITCHER_PROTECTED_URL was provided directly.

    Note

    The resulting URL will take the form https://{TWITCHER_HOST}[/twitcher]{TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH} to imitate the resolution of TWITCHER_PROTECTED_URL considering provided TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH.

  • TWITCHER_PROTECTED_URL
    (Default: see note)

    Defines the protected (public) full base URL of services registered in Magpie. This setting is mainly to allow specifying an alternative domain where a remote Twitcher instance could reside.

    Note

    When not provided, attempts to infer the value by combining the environment variable HOSTNAME or TWITCHER_HOSTNAME, and an optional /twitcher prefix (as needed to match incoming request) and the value provided by TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH.

Please note that although Twitcher URL references are needed to configure interactive parameters with Magpie, the employed Twitcher instance will also need to have access to Magpie’s database in order to allow proper Service resolution with magpie.adapter.magpieservice.MagpieServiceStore. Appropriate database credentials must therefore be shared between the two services, as well as MAGPIE_SECRET value in order for successful completion of the handshake during Authentication procedure of the request User token.

Postgres Settings

Following settings define parameters required to define the PostgreSQL database connection employed by Magpie as well as some other database-related operation settings. Settings defined by magpie.[variable_name] definitions are available as described at the start of the Configuration section, as well as some special cases where additional configuration names are supported where mentioned.

  • MAGPIE_DB_MIGRATION
    (Default: True)

    Run database migration on startup in order to bring it up to date using Alembic.

  • MAGPIE_DB_MIGRATION_ATTEMPTS
    (Default: 5)

    Number of attempts to re-run database migration on startup in case it failed (eg: due to connection error).

  • MAGPIE_DB_URL
    (Default: see note)

    Full database connection URL formatted as <db-type>://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<db-name>.

    Please refer to SQLAlchemy Engine’s documentation for supported database implementations and their corresponding configuration.

    Warning

    Only PostgreSQL has been extensively tested with Magpie, but other variants could be applicable.

    Note

    By default, postgresql database connection URL is inferred by combining al below MAGPIE_POSTGRES_<> parameters if the value was not explicitly provided.

  • MAGPIE_POSTGRES_USERNAME
    (Default: "magpie")

    Database connection username to retrieve Magpie data stored in PostgreSQL.

    Changed in version 1.9.0: On top of MAGPIE_POSTGRES_USERNAME, environment variable POSTGRES_USERNAME and setting postgres.username are all supported interchangeably. For backward compatibility, all above variants with user instead of username (with corresponding lower/upper case) are also verified for potential configuration if no prior parameter was matched. The lookup order of each name variant is as they were presented, while also keeping the setting name priority over an equivalent environment variable name.

  • MAGPIE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD
    (Default: "qwerty")

    Database connection password to retrieve Magpie data stored in PostgreSQL.

    Changed in version 1.9.0: Environment variable POSTGRES_PASSWORD and setting postgres.password are also supported if not previously identified by their Magpie-prefixed variants.

  • MAGPIE_POSTGRES_HOST
    (Default: "postgres")

    Database connection host location to retrieve Magpie data stored in PostgreSQL.

    Changed in version 1.9.0: Environment variable POSTGRES_HOST and setting postgres.host are also supported if not previously identified by their Magpie-prefixed variants.

  • MAGPIE_POSTGRES_PORT [int]
    (Default: 5432)

    Database connection port to retrieve Magpie data stored in PostgreSQL.

    Changed in version 1.9.0: Environment variable POSTGRES_PORT and setting postgres.port are also supported if not previously identified by their Magpie-prefixed variants.

  • MAGPIE_POSTGRES_DB
    (Default: "magpie")

    Name of the database located at the specified connection to retrieve Magpie data stored in PostgreSQL.

    Changed in version 1.9.0: Environment variable POSTGRES_DB and setting postgres.db, as well as the same variants with database instead of db, are also supported if not previously identified by their Magpie-prefixed variants.

Authentication Providers

In order to perform Authentication in Magpie, multiple Providers are supported. By default, the Internal Provider named ziggurat, which corresponds to the package used to manage all Magpie elements internally, is employed. Supported External Providers are presented in the table below, although more could be added later on. To signin using one of these Providers, the corresponding identifier must be provided within the signin request contents.

Each as different configuration parameters as defined in MagpieSecurity and use various protocols amongst OpenID, ESGF-flavored OpenID and OAuth2. Further External Providers can be defined using this module’s dictionary configuration style following parameter specification of Authomatic package used for managing this Authentication procedure.

Category

Provider

Open Identity (OpenID)

OpenID

Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) (1)

German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ)

French Research Institute for Environment Science (IPSL)

British Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) (2)

US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (3)

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

OAuth2

GitHub Authentication

WSO2 Open Source Identity Server
(1) extended variant of OpenID
(2) formerly identified as British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
(3) formerly identified as Program for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercomparison (PCMDI)

Note

Please note that due to the constantly changing nature of multiple of these external providers (APIs and moved Websites), rarely used authentication bridges by the developers could break without prior notice. If this is the case and you use one of the broken connectors, summit a new issue.

GitHub Settings

To use GitHub authentication provider, variables GITHUB_CLIENT_ID and GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET must be configured. These settings correspond to the values retrieved from following steps described in Creating an OAuth App.

Furthermore, the callback URL used for configuring the OAuth application on Github must match the running Magpie instance URL. For this reason, the values of MAGPIE_URL, MAGPIE_HOST and HOSTNAME must be considered.

WSO2 Settings

To use WSO2 authentication provider, following variables must be set:

  • WSO2_HOSTNAME

  • WSO2_CLIENT_ID

  • WSO2_CLIENT_SECRET

  • WSO2_CERTIFICATE_FILE

  • WSO2_SSL_VERIFY

To configure your Magpie instance as a trusted application for WSO2 (and therefore retrieve values of above parameters), please refer to WSO2 Identity Server Documentation.