ImageMagick as a microservice.
- Install
imagemagick. On Ubuntu, this can be done withsudo apt-get install imagemagick. If you want extra image delegates (for example JPEG2000) you may have to compile from source. - Clone this repository somewhere in your web root.
- Install
composer. Install instructions here. $ cd /path/to/Houdiniand run$ composer install- For production, configure your web server appropriately (e.g. add a VirtualHost for Houdini in Apache)
Symfony uses .dotenv to set environment variables. You can check the .env in the root of the Houdini directory.
To alter any settings, create a file called .env.local to store your specific changes. You can also set an actual environment
variable.
For production use make sure to set the add APP_ENV=prod environment variable.
If your imagemagick installation is not on your path, then you can configure Houdini to use a specific executable by editing
the app.executable parameter in /path/to/Houdini/config/services.yaml.
You also need to set your Fedora Base Url to allow the Fedora Resource to be pulled in automatically. This is done in the
/path/to/Houdini/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml. In the same file you can point to the location of your syn-settings.xml.
If you don't have a syn-settings.xml look at the Syn documentation.
To change your log settings, edit the /path/to/Houdini/config/packages/monolog.yaml file.
You can also copy the file into one of the /path/to/Houdini/config/packages/<environment> directories.
Where <environment> is dev, test, or prod based on the APP_ENV variable (see above). The files in the specific
environment directory will take precedence over those in the /path/to/Houdini/config/packages directory.
The location specified in the configuration file for the log must be writable by the web server.
There are instructions in the /path/to/Houdini/config/packages/security.yaml file describing what to change and what lines
to comment out to disable Syn.
Houdini sets up two endpoints:
- /identify/
- /convert/
Houdini is meant for use with API-X, and accepts GET and OPTIONS requests to those endpoints. The OPTIONS requests are for use with the API-X service loading mechanism, and return RDF describing the
service for API-X. The GET requests are used to execute the services, and must contain the URI to an image in Fedora in the ApixLdpResource header.
This runs the imagemagick identify command on the specified resource and returns the results as JSON with the MIME type application/json.
For example, suppose if you have a TIFF in Fedora at http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest/foo/bar. If running the PHP built-in server command described in the Installation section:
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer blabhlahblah" -H "Apix-Ldp-Resource: http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest/foo/bar" "localhost:8888/identify"
But you're probably going to use Houdini through API-X, which exposes this service as svc:identify. Assuming your API-X proxy is on port 8081, you can access the service with
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer blabhlahblah" "http://localhost:8081/services/foo/bar/svc:identify"
This runs the imagemagick convert command on the specified resource. The output format is decided by the Accept header sent along with the request. A default output format can also be selected in the configuration.
For example, suppose if you have an image in Fedora at http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest/foo/bar. If running the PHP built-in server command described in the Installation section:
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer blabhlahblah" -H "Apix-Ldp-Resource: http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest/foo/bar" -H "Accept: image/png" "localhost:8888/convert/foo/bar"
This will return the TIFF converted into a PNG file.
Additional arguments can be specified using the X-Islandora-Args header. For example to resize to 10% the size use:
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer blabhlahblah" -H "Apix-Ldp-Resource: http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest/foo/bar" -H "X-Islandora-Args: -resize 10%" "localhost:8888/convert/foo/bar"
But you're probably going to use Houdini through API-X, which exposes this service as svc:convert. Assuming your API-X proxy is on port 8081, you can access the service with
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer blabhlahblah" "http://localhost:8081/services/foo/bar/svc:convert"
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