ActiveData

Provide high speed filtering and aggregation over data see ActiveData Wiki Page for project details

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Use it now!

ActiveData is a service! You can certainly setup your own service, but it is easier to use Mozilla's!

curl -XPOST -d "{\"from\":\"unittest\"}" http://activedata.allizom.org/query

Requirements

Python2.7 installed
Elasticsearch version 6.x

Elasticsearch Configuration

Elasticsearch has a configuration file at config/elasticsearch.yml. You must modify it to handle a high number of scripts

script.painless.regex.enabled: true
script.max_compilations_rate: 10000/1m

We enable compression for faster transfer speeds

http.compression: true

And it is a good idea to give your cluster a unique name so it does not join others on your local network

cluster.name: lahnakoski_dev

then you can run Elasticsearch:

c:\elasticsearch>bin\elasticsearch

Elasticsearch runs off port 9200. Test it is working

curl http://localhost:9200

you should expect something like

{
  "status" : 200,
  "name" : "dev",
  "cluster_name" : "lahnakoski_dev",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "1.7.5",
    "build_hash" : "00f95f4ffca6de89d68b7ccaf80d148f1f70e4d4",
    "build_timestamp" : "2016-02-02T09:55:30Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "4.10.4"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

Installation

It is still too early for PyPi install, so please clone master branch off of github:

git clone https://github.com/klahnakoski/ActiveData.git
git checkout master

and install your requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

The ActiveData service requires a configuration file that will point to the default Elasticsearch index. You can find a few sample config files in tests/config. simple_settings.json is simplest one:

    {
        "flask":{
             "host":"0.0.0.0",
             "port":5000,
             "debug":false,
             "threaded":true,
             "processes":1
         },
        "constants":{
            "pyLibrary.env.http.default_headers":{"From":"https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/ActiveData"}
        },
        "elasticsearch":{
            "host":"http://localhost",
            "port":9200,
            "index":"unittest",
            "type":"test_result",
            "debug":true
        }
        ...<snip>...
    }

The elasticsearch property must be updated to point to a specific cluster, index and type. It is used as a default, and to find other indexes by name.

Run

Jump to your git project directory, set your PYTHONPATH and run app.py:

    cd ~/ActiveData
    export PYTHONPATH=.
    python active_data/app.py --settings=resources/config/simple_settings.json

Verify

If you have no records in your Elasticsearch cluster, then you must add some before you can query them.

Make a table in Elasticsearch, with one record:

curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/movies/movie/1" -d "{\"name\":\"The Parent Trap\",\"released\":\"29 July` 1998\",\"imdb\":\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120783/\",\"rating\":\"PG\",\"director\":{\"name\":\"Nancy Meyers\",\"dob\":\"December 8, 1949\"}}"

Assuming you used the defaults, you can verify the service is up if you can access the Query Tool at http://localhost:5000/tools/query.html. You may use it to send queries to your instance of the service. For example:

    {"from":"movies"}

Tests

The Github repo also included the test suite, and you can run it against your service if you wish. The tests will create indexes on your cluster which are filled, queried, and destroyed

    cd ~/ActiveData
    export PYTHONPATH=.
    # OPTIONAL, TEST_SETTINGS already defaults to this file
    export TEST_SETTINGS=tests/config/test_simple_settings.json
    python -m unittest discover -v -s tests

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