DFD_Edit

This tool allows users to model Data Flow Diagrams of their systems.

Users can Invite others to collaborate on their DFDs and Export their DFD to an RDF representation in Turtle.

This tool was created as part of my Final Year Project at Trinity College Dublin. My project is to investigate Linked Data representations of DFDs and how they can be used for automatic compliance validation of systems.

The extension of this application for for GDPR-aware DFD Modelling can be accessed Here.

The live site can be accessed Here.

Screen Shots

Home page

Editor

Account page

Run Local

Download the code and navigate to this directory.

git clone https://github.com/SeanFitz1997/DFD_Edit
cd DFD_Edit

Install dependencies

• Requires python 3.6 (or higher)
• Requires pipenv

pipenv install

Create a secret key

Option 1: Set a environment variable

(If using bash)
$vim ~/.bashrc
#add to bottom of the file
export DFD_EDIT=<RANDOM-VALUE>

If windows see here

Option 2: Add secret key to App/__init__.py Change this line to

app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = "<RANDOM-VALUE>"

I recommend to create your random value using

$ python
Python 3.6.5 (v3.6.5:f59c0932b4, Mar 28 2018, 17:00:18) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import secrets
>>> secrets.token_urlsafe(16)
'<SECRET>'

Create Database

This will create a sqlite DB in App/site.db and populate it with some demo users and demo DFDs. You can long in with to these accounts with the email: '[email protected]' (or 2, 3 for the other users) and password 'test'.

python create_db.py

Run server

python run.py

This will allow you to access the site at http://127.0.0.1:5000

Whats Here

App
|-static
|   |- img (site images)
|   |- js
|       |-editor (code for editor page)
|           |- config (key bindings for editor)
|           |- images (images used in editor)
|           |- main.js (contains main function to create editor and diagram hierarchy data structure)
|           |- editor.js (creates editor)
|           |- diagram_hierarchy.js (diagram hierarchy getters & setters and diagram switch event handlers)
|           |- validator.js (validation helper functions)
|           |- save_graph.js (functions for serializing DFD and making save and export requests)
|       |- account.js (Handles users interactions on the account page)
|   |- mxgraph-master (mxgraph library used for drag & drop diagram)
|   |- styles (Custom CSS)
|- templates
|- __init__ (App constructor)
|- models.py (Data models)
|- routes.py (Route definitions)
|- forms.py (Form definitions)
|- exporter.py (RDF export functions)
|- utils.py (Helper functions)
create_db.py (Creates tables and fill with demo data)
run.py (Runs server in debug mode)