Planimation Backend

Latest Development Build Status

Local Dev

• Required Python version 3.6

  cd backend/server
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  python manage.py runserver
  

• Install dependencies for unity linux standalone

  1. Install gdebi and wget

  sudo apt install gdebi-core wget

  2. Remove existing xvfb package (if any)

  sudo apt purge xvfb

  3. WGET libxfont and xvfb packages (newer versions of xvfb may cause incompatibility issues)

  sudo wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxfont/libxfont1_1.5.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.4_amd64.deb
  sudo wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xorg-server/xvfb_1.18.4-0ubuntu0.11_amd64.deb

  4. Install libxfont and xvfb packages

  sudo gdebi libxfont1_1.5.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.4_amd64.deb
  sudo gdebi xvfb_1.18.4-0ubuntu0.11_amd64.deb

• Install ffmpeg for image format conversion

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Docker Build

• Install Docker in /backend working directory

  docker build -t planimation-backend:latest -f server/docker/release/Dockerfile server
  docker run -d -p 8000:8000 planimation-backend:latest
  docker ps
  

• Test the web server is running by visiting localhost:8000 in the browser.

Contribution

When contributing to this repository, please adhere to the below guidelines.

Create an issue

• Before pushing code to the repo, it is required to create an issue along with a brief description so that peer developers can review, provide suggestions and feedback.
• Create a new issue to obtain ISSUE_NO.

Pre-push changes

Before pushing the code to repo please make sure to:

1. Update the README.md with details of changes to the interface, this includes the new environment variables, exposed ports, useful file locations and container parameters, if any.
2. Increase the version numbers in any examples files and the README.md to the new version if any.
3. The version number scheme, we follow SemVer.

Commit message format

• Set the commit template as follows:

  git config user.name "Your Full Name"
  git config user.name "Your GitHut email"
  git config commit.template .gitmessage
  

• Commit message should be of the following format [ISSUE_NO] COMMIT_MESSAGE. Refer .gitmessage. Example:

  [10] Fix security issue related with form
  
  * Updated lib dependency version
  * Fixed something
  * Fixed other thing
  
  Resolves #10
  

Pull Request and peer code review process

Please note that you cannot push directly to develop nor master branches.

• Create a new branch and push the changes to this branch.
• Create a PR and add at least one peer reviewer.
• You may merge your branch to develop once your PR is approved by your peer reviewer.
• If you do not have permission to merge the PR, please contact the reviewer to merge it for you.