pywps-4

New version of PyWPS, written from scratch.

• Documentation, hosted by ReadTheDocs.

• Continuous integration with Travis:

• Chat: https://gitter.im/PyWPS

License

Short version: MIT Long version: see LICENSE.txt file

Dependencies

• lxml (http://lxml.de)
• werkzeug (http://werkzeug.pocoo.org)
• libxml2-dev, libxslt1-dev
• GDAL (http://www.gdal.org/)
• owslib (http://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/)
• jsonschema (http://json-schema.org/)

Run tests

Install and run tox:

$ pip install tox
$ tox

Or run the tests by hand, with either python 2 or 3:

$ python tests/__init__.py

Run web application

Demo application

Clone PyWPS-4 recursively with the demo application:

$ git clone --recursive git://github.com/jachym/pywps-4.git
$ sudo python setup.py install
$ cd demo/
$ python demo.py

Or clone only demo app after having installed PyWPS-4:

$ git clone git://github.com/PyWPS/pywps-4-demo.git
$ cd demo/
$ python demo.py

Apache configuration

1. Enable WSGI extension

2. Add configuration:

   WSGIDaemonProcess pywps user=user group=group processes=2 threads=5
   WSGIScriptAlias /pywps /path/to/www/htdocs/wps/pywps.wsgi
   
   <Directory /path/to/www/htdocs/wps/>
       WSGIProcessGroup group
       WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
       Order deny,allow
       Allow from all
   </Directory>

3. Create wsgi file:

   #!/usr/bin/env python3
   import sys
   sys.path.append('/path/to/src/pywps-4/')
   
   import pywps
   from pywps.app import Service, WPS, Process
   
   def pr1():
       """This is the execute method of the process
       """
       pass
   
   
   application = Service(processes=[Process(pr1)])

4. Run via web browser

   http://localhost/pywps/?service=wps&request=getcapabilities&version=1.0.0

5. Run in command line:

   curl 'http://localhost/pywps/?service=wps&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.0.0'

Issues

On Windows PyWPS-4 does not support multiprocessing which is used when making requests storing the response document and updating the status to displaying to the user the progression of a process.