ckanext-accessrequests

A user who has an Admin role in the top-level organisation has able to access the list of requests and approve/reject requests (he can approve/reject users)

Requirements

For example, you might want to mention here which versions of CKAN this extension works with.

Installation

To install ckanext-accessrequests:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
   

2. Install the ckanext-accessrequests Python package into your virtual environment:

   pip install ckanext-accessrequests
   

3. Add accessrequests to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/production.ini).

4. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

   sudo service apache2 reload
   

Configuration

Set configuration options in ini file:

ckan.plugins = accessrequests

# admin email for receiving info about new users requests
ckanext.accessrequests.approver_email = [email protected]

# list of roles that are not available during access request process
ckanext.accessrequests.restricted_roles = creator admin

Development Installation

To install ckanext-accessrequests for development, activate your CKAN virtualenv and do:

git clone https://github.com/DataShades/ckanext-accessrequests.git
cd ckanext-accessrequests
python setup.py develop
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Running the Tests

To run the tests, do:

nosetests --nologcapture --with-pylons=test.ini

To run the tests and produce a coverage report, first make sure you have coverage installed in your virtualenv (pip install coverage) then run:

nosetests --nologcapture --with-pylons=test.ini --with-coverage --cover-package=ckanext.accessrequests --cover-inclusive --cover-erase --cover-tests

Registering ckanext-accessrequests on PyPI

ckanext-accessrequests should be availabe on PyPI as https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ckanext-accessrequests. If that link doesn't work, then you can register the project on PyPI for the first time by following these steps:

1. Create a source distribution of the project:

   python setup.py sdist
   

2. Register the project:

   python setup.py register
   

3. Upload the source distribution to PyPI:

   python setup.py sdist upload
   

4. Tag the first release of the project on GitHub with the version number from the setup.py file. For example if the version number in setup.py is 0.0.1 then do:

   git tag 0.0.1
   git push --tags
   

Releasing a New Version of ckanext-accessrequests

ckanext-accessrequests is availabe on PyPI as https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ckanext-accessrequests. To publish a new version to PyPI follow these steps:

1. Update the version number in the setup.py file. See PEP 440 for how to choose version numbers.

2. Create a source distribution of the new version:

   python setup.py sdist
   

3. Upload the source distribution to PyPI:

   python setup.py sdist upload
   

4. Tag the new release of the project on GitHub with the version number from the setup.py file. For example if the version number in setup.py is 0.0.2 then do:

   git tag 0.0.2
   git push --tags