fossdriver

fossdriver is intended to enable control of a FOSSology server from Python programs.

This package is significantly based on, and inspired by, the excellent fossup FOSSology Uploader package from Togán Labs.

Requirements

fossdriver requires a FOSSology server to talk to. (fossdriver doesn't contain a FOSSology server; you'll have to go set one up yourself.)

The current version of fossdriver is designed for use with a FOSSology server version 3.3.0, which is the now-current release of FOSSology. It has not been tested on other versions.

fossdriver works with Python 3 or Python 2. Many thanks to Sinéad Redmond of Togán Labs for enabling Python 2 support.

fossdriver makes use of, and installs if not present, the following dependencies (and their subdependencies, of course):

• requests and requests_toolbox - for communicating with the server
• bs4 (BeautifulSoup) and lxml - for parsing server responses

Installation

fossdriver is not yet released on PyPI, so a standard pip install doesn't work yet.

To install in development mode, first download the source and unpack it at /WHEREVER/fossdriver/, then run in a virtualenv:

pip install -e /WHEREVER/fossdriver

Also create a config file in your home directory, at e.g. .fossdriverrc, with the following details for your FOSSology server:

{
    "serverUrl": "SERVER URL",
    "username": "USERNAME",
    "password": "PASSWORD"
}

Note that the URL should NOT include the /repo/ portion of the URL that FOSSology typically appends.

Usage

1. In your Python project, import the fossdriver objects:

from fossdriver.config import FossConfig
from fossdriver.server import FossServer
from fossdriver.tasks import (CreateFolder, Upload, Scanners, Copyright,
    Reuse, BulkTextMatch, SPDXTV)

2. Create a config object:

config = FossConfig()
configPath = os.path.join(str(Path.home()), ".fossdriver", "fossdriverrc.json")
config.configure(configPath)

3. Create and connect to the server:

server = FossServer(config)
server.Login()

4. Run some tasks on the server:

# create a new folder on the server
CreateFolder(server, "Test Folder", "Parent Folder").run()

# upload archive.zip to the new folder
Upload(server, "archive.zip", "Test Folder").run()

# start the Monk and Nomos scanners
Scanners(server, "archive.zip", "Test Folder").run()

# also run the Copyright statement scanner
Copyright(server, "archive.zip", "Test Folder").run()

# also reuse prior results from an earlier scan
Reuse(server, "archive.zip", "Test Folder", "earlier-scan-1", "Earlier Scan Folder").run()

# see docs/BulkTextMatch.md for details on how to use BulkTextMatch

# and export an SPDX tag-value file
SPDXTV(server, "archive.zip", "Test Folder", "/tmp/archive.spdx").run()

Contributing

Contributions to fossdriver are welcome. Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file for details on contributing.

License

fossdriver is provided under a choice of either the MIT license or the BSD-3-Clause license, at the licensee's option. Copies of these licenses are included in the LICENSE file.

SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause OR MIT