cccs 0.0.6

CCCS common python library

Common python library for CCCS

This is a common library that will be use by our different project so we can re-use as much code as possible. It includes the following:

• Utility functions
  • Classification engine
  • String manipulation
  • Date manipulation
  • Dictionary flattening/un-flatening/merging
  • Logging setup
  • Networking validation (IP/Domain)
  • Security related operations (Generating password/username/API keys...)
  • Generate random ID
• Elastic datastore support
  • Maintain connection with Elasticsearch
  • Easy to use lucene base search/add/remove documents functions
  • Maintain indexes fields using predefined data model
  • Perform bulk operations
  • Perform index repair/re-shard/replication/reindex operations
• Filestore support
  • Provides easy to use file storage for your project with multiple backends
    • HTTP (read only)
    • FTP/SFTP
    • Amazon S3
    • Azure Blob storage
    • Local storage
  • Has the concept of multiple levels of storage
• Object data model (ODM) support
  • Validate the data of your project
  • Keep the datastore index fields in sync with the model
• Remote datatypes
  • Provide datastructures accessible to multiple processes running of different machines for distributed high availability environments
  • Supported data structures are the following:
    • Counters
    • Event dispatcher/handlers
    • Hash
    • Global Locks
    • Sets
    • Quota trackers
    • Queues (Pubsub/Fifo/Priority)

Installation

This library is public and distributed via Pypi:

pip install cccs

Development

If you which to participate to the development of this library, you can setup your environment the folowing way.

Install python 3.9+

We only support newer version of python and will not support older versions. This library was meant to end up running in a container anyway.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt install python3.9

Install VSCode

This is our prefered IDE and the repo is already preconfigured for it.

sudo snap install code

Clone the cccs_common_python repo into your git folder

cd ~/git/
git clone [e-mail]:CybercentreCanada/cccs_common_python.git

Create a virtual env in the cccs_common_python folder

cd ~/git/cccs_common_python/
python3.9 -m venv venv

Install required packages and library in your virtual environement

cd ~/git/cccs_common_python/
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Currently used by

• Assemblyline [https://github.com/CybercentreCanada/assemblyline]