falocalrepo-server 1.8.8

Web interface for falocalrepo.

FALocalRepo-Server

Web interface for falocalrepo.

Installation & Requirements

To install the program it is sufficient to use Python pip and get the package falocalrepo-server.

python3 -m pip install falocalrepo-server

Python 3.8 or above is needed to run this program, all other dependencies are handled by pip during installation. For information on how to install Python on your computer, refer to the official website Python.org.

For the program to run, a properly formatted database created by falocalrepo needs to be present in the same folder.

Usage

falocalrepo-server <database> [<host>:<port>]

The server needs one argument pointing at the location of a valid falocalrepo database and accepts an optional argument to manually set host and port. By default, the server is run on 0.0.0.0:8080.

Once the server is running - it will display status messages in the terminal - the web app can be accessed at http://0.0.0.0:8080/, or any manually set host/port combination.

Note: All the following paths are meant as paths from <host>:<port>.

The root folder / displays basic information on the database and has links to perform submissions and journal searches.

Users

The /user/<username> path displays basic statistics of a user stored in the database. Clicking on gallery/scraps or journals counters opens submissions and journals by the user respectively.

The /submissions/<username> and /journals/<username> paths open submissions and journals by the user respectively.

Search

The server search interface allows to search submissions, journals, and users. Respectively, these can be reached at /search/submissions, /search/journals, and /search/users. The /search/ path defaults to submissions search.

The interface supports the search fields supported by the command line database search commands. To add a field press on the + button after selecting one in the dropdown menu. The - buttons allow to remove a field from the search.

Fields can be added multiple times and will act as OR options.

Fields are matched using the SQLite like expression which allows for limited pattern matching. See database command for more details.

The Sort By and Order selections allow to sort and order results using any field.

The View option allows to switch from a list view to a grid view of the search results. The view selector and grid view are only supported for submission searches, all others will default to the list view.

The /submissions/<username>/, /journals/<username>/, and /favorites/<username>/ paths allow to quickly open a search for submissions, journals, and favorites associated to <username>. /search/submissions/<username>/, /search/journals/<username>/, and /search/favorites/<username>/ are also allowed.

Results of the search are displayed 50 per page in a table. Clicking on any row opens the specific item. Clicking on the table headers allows to perform re-sort the search results.

Browse

The /browse/submissions, /browse/journals, and /browse/users paths allow to open a list of all entries in a specific table. From there the results can be refined using the search interface.

Submissions & Journals

Submissions and journals can be accessed respectively at /submission/<id> and /journal/<id>. All the metadata, content and files that are recorded in the database are displayed in these pages.

Submission files can be accessed at /submission/<id>/file or by using the Download File or Download Submission as ZIP buttons.

For both submissions and journals it is possible to download a ZIP containing the metadata in a JSON-formatted file and the submission description/journal content in HTML format. For submissions, the ZIP file also contains the submission file. The ZIP of a submission/journal can be accessed directly using the /submission/<id>/zip and /journal/<id>/zip paths.