Add support for the django framework

[francbartoli]

Implement #586

Pending tasks:

• Rebase with master
• Add support for Django 3 and 4
• Align the current endpoints in the Django application
• Fix the statics for the HTML pages
• Make sure the Django application is pluggable when the pygeoapi package is installed
• Add documentation

[kalxas]

Is pygeoapi/db.sqlite3 needed or can it be created by the ORM?

[webb-ben]

@ksonda and I were talking about a use case for pygeoapi in which there is an admin interface (for those who prefers GUI over CLI). I know Flask has importable packages, but this comes already integrated in Django.

With that in mind, I was wondering what is the status of this PR? Are you at all taking contributions? Are there any suggestions for us?

[francbartoli]

Hi @webb-ben and @ksonda and thanks for looking into this.

The purpose of this PR is to add the option to start a Django server in the pygeoapi cli https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/pull/630/files#diff-1696c76ab8f15157943cb6d039faf97ab95c21958691ced33c6491bf03344770R45-R62.

If I understand well the admin interface you are proposing is something available before starting the server right?
How do you imagine the flow?

[tomkralidis]

@francbartoli any update on this one? Should we close the PR for now (but keep #586 open)?

[francbartoli]

@tomkralidis it isn't a high priority feature for now but the PR is already flagged as a draft. Anyway it is fine with me if we want to close at the moment

[lucadelu]

Any news about Django support? it could be really useful, what was missing in the @francbartoli implementation?

[francbartoli]

Any news about Django support? it could be really useful, what was missing in the @francbartoli implementation?

Thanks for looking into this @lucadelu, concretely the module was not quite ready as django application for being installed and used within GeoNode

[lucadelu]

ok maybe for GeoNode is not yet ready but it could be useful to have it for normal user as me. I'm implementing a REST API using django and I was thinking to serve also OGCAPI standard using pygeoapi, the code seems to be useful.

I could help a little bit to test or improve it if you think it could be merge in the main code (I need sometime since I'm completely new to pyogcapi)

[francbartoli]

Thanks @lucadelu, it would be helpful if you can contribute. It has been stalled now for a while and it's likely the work needs to be aligned with all the new endpoints added to pygeoapi. But yeah we can work together to progressively complete this feature

[lucadelu]

Yes please, could you please create a TODO list of features needed before the merge, and I also need a little bit of help to set the working environment. Could we plan a discussion during the next week code sprint?

[francbartoli]

Yes please, could you please create a TODO list of features needed before the merge, and I also need a little bit of help to set the working environment. Could we plan a discussion during the next week code sprint?

Sure! That's a very good idea, I was thinking the same 👍

[francbartoli]

@lucadelu I've added a tasks list at the top. Let's catch up during the sprint

[lucadelu]

@lucadelu I've added a tasks list at the top. Let's catch up during the sprint

@francbartoli could be possible to update to newer Django release (now it seems required Django < 3)

Do you have any preferred time during the sprint?

[francbartoli]

I’ve added the new item for version 3. Let’s organize the time during the days. Have you already joined the OGC Discord server? What’s your handle over there?

[msmitherdc]

Django 4 is the current release. You should target current

[lucadelu]

I’ve added the new item for version 3. Let’s organize the time during the days. Have you already joined the OGC Discord server? What’s your handle over there?

Yes I joined, my username is lucadelu

[tomkralidis]

Great work everyone!

@lucadelu @krishnaglodha can each of you, in this PR, add a contributor agreement comment with the following (raw Markdown below):

# Contributions and Licensing

(as per https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributions-and-licensing)

- [ ] I'd like to contribute [feature X|bugfix Y|docs|something else] to pygeoapi. I confirm that my contributions to pygeoapi will be compatible with the pygeoapi license guidelines at the time of contribution.
- [ ] I have already previously agreed to the pygeoapi Contributions and Licensing Guidelines

Thanks

[tomkralidis]

Luca's agreement put forth in #971 (comment)

[tomkralidis]

Krishna's agreement put forth in #971 (comment)