This is a shared library for sharing functionality between various components in a running Drastic system. It is intended to be included by the drastic-web and drastic-agent components.

Configuration is specified with the DRASTIC_CONFIG environment variable

export DRASTIC_CONFIG=settings

The file at settings.py only needs to be changed should the Cassandra Keyspace name change. By default the keyspace is called Drastic.

This module contains Drastic model-specific exceptions to be handled if problems occur when writing to the database, such as UniqueError to be raised when an attempt is made to write a new Collection with the name of an existing one.

The shared drivers (drastic.drivers.CassandraDriver and drastic.drivers.FileSystemDriver) provide functions for returning a previous added file in chunks. The drivers are loaded by called drastic.drivers.get_driver() and passing either a cassandra:// URL or a file:// URL. By default the chunk size is 1Mb.

The drastic.metadata.MetadataValidator class provides a mechanism for validating collection/resource metadata when submitted via a webform. Once the CDMI layer is complete it is expected that it will use the same mechanism.

Whenever drastic is installed in a sub-component's virtualenv, the drastic command is available from inside the activated virtualenv to interact with the system.

Creates/Syncs the database defined in configuration with the latest models.

drastic create

Deletes the entire database (defined in config), and is irreversible. Should only be used during development.

drastic zap

Provides a guided interface to create a new user. You will be asked if this is an administrative user, their password and their email address.

drastic user-create

Displays a list of all known users within the current drastic system.

drastic user-list

Creates a new group within the system. Requires the name of the group and the name of the owning user.

drastic group-create GROUP_NAME OWNING_USERNAME

List all currently known groups

drastic group-list

Adds a user to a group by specifying the group name and the username

drastic group-add-user GROUP_NAME USER_NAME

Deletes the specified group

drastic group-delete GROUP_NAME

The ingest command is used to import existing data into the Drastic system. By providing a directory the command will walk the files and sub-folders within that directory adding them as collections and resources in Drastic. The created collection structure will mirror the provided local directory.

This command needs at least 3 arguments, they are:

1. group - The group name which will be given ownership of the newly created resources and collections
2. user - The user who will be used to create the resources and collections.
3. folder - The local folder to be ingested.

By default, all created resources are stored in Cassandra (the system default), and are created with URLs that point to a Blob in the Cassandra DB. It is possible to create the collections and resources but without uploading any files - this will mean that the created resource URLs will point to the local agent (which will then deliver the content). To perform this type of import the noimport and localip are required. The first is a boolean flag, the second a string with the IP address of the local agent.

Imports all of the folders and resources under /data into Cassandra.

drastic ingest --group TEST_GROUP--user TEST_USER --folder /data

In this case it is important that the agent is configured to point to /data for its disk storage as the URLs created will be relative to this. So a local file /data/test/somedata.csv will be given the URL file://192.168.10.10/test/somedata.csv.

drastic ingest --group TEST_GROUP--user TEST_USER --folder /data --localip 192.168.10.10 --noimport