The question is what steps are needed to deploy and test new code for a plugin that is being developed on a production instance host (not a development instance one).
I already got the first step is to build the wheel on any development host, with command
$ python ./bin/maintenance/build-wheel.py plugin ../indico-plugins/<my_plugin> --add-version-suffix
And then scp the generated wheel file to the destination server, and pip install it.
Quick question: does the wheel file need to be copied to any particular directory? Or that does not matter? I guess it does not, but just in case.
Second question is: the pip install command is ran as root, or indico user?
After that, is there any extra step needed? For a development host, I know you have to manually add the new plugin to indico.conf file. Is that still needed? Similar question with adding the plugin to the internal DB with command
indico db --all-plugins upgrade
Is that also needed?
Thanks a lot.
Jose
Doesn’t matter where. /tmp/ is a good choice since you don’t need it anymore after installing it.
Indico user, while the virtualenv is active (source ~/.venv/bin/activate)
Yes, that’s always needed to load a plugin.
That’s only needed if you have plugins that have alembic revisions to create database tables. Your plugin doesn’t. so no need to run it.
Thanks for the prompt response.
I guess I only have one follow up question, since we are talking about testing during development. I imagine there is no problem if the same plugin is re-installed many times, right? There is no need to perform any cleanup step before each reinstallation, correct?
By using --add-version-suffix each time you build the plugin it has a higher version number (since the build time is included in it), so you can just install the next wheel and pip will automatically uninstall the older one first.
excellent !! Thanks a lot !!
OK. I am trying to run the build-wheel command. I am having a few small issues, so I just need confirmation.
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do I need to create manually a directory dist/?
$ python ./bin/maintenance/build-wheel.py plugin ../indico-plugins/livesync_invenio/ --add-version-suffix
Usage: build-wheel.py [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Error: Invalid value for "--target-dir" / "-d": Directory "dist/" does not exist.
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Is it needed to run the command from indico/ directory?
$ python indico/bin/maintenance/build-wheel.py plugin ./indico-plugins/livesync_invenio --add-version-suffix
Usage: build-wheel.py plugin [OPTIONS] PLUGIN_DIR
Error: Invalid value for "plugin_dir": Directory "./indico-plugins/livesync_invenio" does not exist.
$ cd indico
indico $ python ./bin/maintenance/build-wheel.py plugin ../indico-plugins/livesync_invenio --add-version-suffix
Usage: build-wheel.py [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Error: Invalid value for "--target-dir" / "-d": Directory "dist/" does not exist.
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any particular version of python and/or setuptools is needed?
indico $ mkdir dist
indico $ python --version
Python 2.7.5
indico $ ./bin/maintenance/build-wheel.py plugin ../indico-plugins/livesync_invenio --add-version-suffix
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./bin/maintenance/build-wheel.py", line 334, in <module>
cli(obj={})
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 721, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 696, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1065, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 894, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 534, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/decorators.py", line 27, in new_func
return f(get_current_context().obj, *args, **kwargs)
File "./bin/maintenance/build-wheel.py", line 296, in build_plugin
clean, output = git_is_clean_plugin()
File "./bin/maintenance/build-wheel.py", line 168, in git_is_clean_plugin
toplevel = list({x.split('.')[0] for x in find_packages(include=('indico', 'indico.*)})
TypeError: find_packages() got an unexpected keyword argument 'include'
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yes
yes as well
you should always have the latest versions of pip, setuptools and wheel installed in your virtualenv → pip install -U pip setuptools wheel