Installation

Please consider all following commands to pick the combination that better fits your needs. These are not a set of commands to call one after the other to “setup magpie”, but rather a list of different methods that lead to equivalent results employed for different use cases.

To install as an external package, you can clone and install from the directory by running at the command line:

git clone https://github.com/Ouranosinc/Magpie magpie
pip install ./magpie   # watch out, directory, not 'magpie' package

Warning

Do NOT run pip install magpie directly, as this installs another package from PyPI also named magpie that is not this Magpie application. Instead, make sure to refer to your local directory where Magpie repository has been cloned, or select another method below.

Alternatively, the package can be installed directly from the repository with the following command. This is recommended if you only want to employ Magpie (as CLI or Web Application) but not develop with it directly.

pip install git+https://github.com/Ouranosinc/Magpie.git

If you desire to develop code features or fixes with Magpie, consider using the -e option to install a reference to your local installation, avoiding distinct instances locally and in site-packages. For example:

pip install -e <local-magpie-directory>

If you have conda installed, you can create an environment and activate it as follows:

conda create -n magpie
conda activate magpie
pip install magpie

All above operations is done automatically with the following command executed from within a local Magpie directory:

make install-pkg

If you want the full setup for development (including dependencies for test execution), use:

make install-dev

You can run the Magpie container with a docker-compose.yml for a local setup (see docker-compose.yml.example)

Backward Compatibility

Magpie remains available for following obsolete and backward compatible versions.

• Python 2.7 (end of life on January 1st, 2020)

• Python 3.5 (end of life on September 13th, 2020)

Older versions than ones listed above are unsupported. These oldest versions remain tested in Travis-CI and deployment procedure for traceability, but are not guaranteed to work, nor provide all functional or security features and will not be actively maintained. If you identify an easy fix for such an older version, please submit an issue to be considered for integration. It is greatly recommended to upgrade your Python version to receive all applicable security patches.

Installation for Twitcher

If you are planning on using Magpie as an adapter to Twitcher Proxy, please employ the Twitcher 0.5.x branch. More recent versions (e.g.: 0.6.0) broke compatibility to load the magpie.adapter.MagpieAdapter class to make them work together.

Note

When running Twitcher with Magpie adapter, it is expected that the adapter will be able to connect to the Magpie database with all relevant User, Service, etc. definitions. To make sure schemas and tables are generated and updated appropriately, it is recommended to start Magpie once to run the database migration mechanism. This can be accomplished both directly with the CLI (run_database_migration) or the Web Application (automatic on startup).

See also

Refer to Access to Protected Resources to learn more about Twitcher and its interaction with Magpie.