shroompred

Requires ubuntu or windows. Please start a Linux terminal or command prompt on Windows for the following steps.

Python3

Install Python 3 and Git (optional)

Download or extract git repo

git clone https://github.com/rnjv/shroompred.git or unzip the given file.

cd shroompred

Get pip

Linux:

curl --silent --show-error --retry 5 https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python3

Windows:

Download get-pip.py (https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py) to a folder on your computer. Open a command prompt window and navigate to the folder containing get-pip.py. Then run python get-pip.py. This will install pip.

Install Virtualenv

pip install --user virtualenv

Create Virtual Environment

[If running a Unix-based VM on a Windows host, browse to a Linux filesystem if you are in a shared folder of Windows origin]

python3 -m virtualenv shroompred_app

Activate your virtual environment

Activate virtual environment (working directory is shroompred, make sure you have cd into it as instructed above)

source shroompred_app/bin/activate (on Linux)

shroompred_app/Scripts/activate (on Windows)

Install required packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Launch server

unzip web2py_src.zip (On Windows, be sure to unzip so that only the web2py folder is overwritten and no new folder is created)

python3 web2py/web2py.py

Type password

'admin' as password

You should get a browser launched

Testing backend

Leave server running. On a new terminal, on the same shroompred folder, perform the following:

source shroompred_app/bin/activate

python3 web2py/web2py.py -M -S shroompred

import requests, json

#helper to generate random variables for request

varslist = gen_rest_varslist(short=1)

r = requests.get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/rest/api?short=1", data=json.dumps(varslist), headers={"content-type": "application/json"})

r.text