Introduction

This service provides a project-based information store so that all other microservices can refer to it. Among other things, it determines which ports should be used when publishing data.

Explanation of the term research project

Due to the very high frequency of the term project in computer science and related services, we had to choose a different term within the RDS system to simplify communication between users and/or developers. That’s why we chose the term research project to refer to projects within the RDS system, which can be loosely translated into English as Research, so that we can always distinguish which project is meant in the dialog: either the research project in the RDS system or the project of an associated service. It also increases readability and clarifies the meaning of terms within this documentation and the RDS implementation enormously.

For example, it is clear which ID is involved if the API endpoint requires a research-id (rds internal project identifier) or a project-id (service-specific project identifier). Which project-id it is depends on the context, e.g. the port of the Zenodo service often requires a project-id, which is assigned specifically for Zenodo.

ER Diagram

The internal information model is presented in the following as a UML diagram, but should please be understood as an ER diagram.

classDiagram

  class Port {
    - String portName
    - Bool fileStorage
    - Bool metadataStorage
    - Dict customProperty
  }

  class Project {
    + String user
    + Port portIn
    + Port portOut
  }

  class ProjectService {
    + Project projects
  }

  ProjectService "1" -- "0..n" Project : has
  Project "1" -- "0..n" Port : has

OpenAPI v3

lib.Port

Port

Port(self,
     portName,
     fileStorage=False,
     metadata=False,
     customProperties: list = None)

setProperty

Port.setProperty(portType, value)

Returns True, if portType was found and set to value. Otherwise false.

portType has to be a string, value has to be boolean.

lib.Project

Project

Project(self, user, portIn=None, portOut=None)

addPort

Project.addPort(port, portList)

Adds port (type Port) to given portList.

removePort

Project.removePort(port, portList)

Remove port from portList. Port can be int as index or an object with type Port.

nextStatus

Project.nextStatus()

Set the next status and returns the new value. It returns the same value, if you already at the last state.

lib.ProjectService

ProjectService

ProjectService(self)

addProject

ProjectService.addProject(userOrProject, portIn=None, portOut=None)

If parameter `userOrProject is an project object, this method adds the given project to the storage.

If parameter userOrProject is a string, it first creates an project object for you. As a convenient parameter, you can set portIn and portOut also, which are used as parameters in project initialization.

getProject

ProjectService.getProject(user='',
                          researchIndex: int = None,
                          researchId: int = None)

This method returns all projects, if no parameters were set. If the parameter user is set, it returns all projects, which belongs to the user. If the researchIndex is set, it returns the corresponding project. Beware: You start counting at Zero!

If you set the parameter user and researchIndex, it returns the project relative to all user specific projects.

Raises ValueError if parameter user or researchIndex are wrong types and IndexError, when you try to access lists and index is to big.

removeProject

ProjectService.removeProject(user: str = None,
                             researchIndex: int = None,
                             researchId: int = None)

This method removes the projects for given user.

If researchIndex was given, only the corresponding researchIndex will be removed (no user required, but it is faster). Returns True if it is successful or raise an exception if user or researchIndex not found. Else returns false.

getDict

ProjectService.getDict()

Returns a dict of all projects with a new attribute “id”, which symbolize the project researchIndex in the system.

Status

Status(cls, value, names=None, *, module, qualname, type, start)

The order represents the workflow through the states. So the successor of each status is the next in line.

CREATED

DELETED

DONE

WORK

NotFoundIDError

NotFoundIDError(self, user, id, msg=None)

NotFoundUserError

NotFoundUserError(self, user, id, msg=None)

Research Manager