pydio-sync

New Python version of the Pydio synchronization client [pre-alpha]

This is a python rewrite of the current java-based synchro client. The work is still in progress and requires a couple of stuff to be deployed on the server-side to work.

Server Requirements

Pydio server needs the following to be turned on:

• RESTfull access point (see /rest.php file) and a working pair of credentials for that (rest_user/rest_password)
• DB-based setup : serial-based will soon be deprecated anyway
• Meta.syncable plugin applied to the workspace you want to synchronize. This will track all the changes in a specific db-table, making it very quick for the sync client to load the last changes.
• php_rsync extension on the server to allow transferring files deltas instead of complete files contents when modified. Not yet implemented but will be back at one point.

##Client Setup

Installing

• Make sure to install Python 2.7
• Install pip - Make sure to have a version 1.4 or upper on Linux
• Run: pip install git+https://github.com/pydio/pydio-sync.git

Quick start

Start main module

python -m pydio.main

If the UI is not installed, simply launched your webbrowser at http://127.0.0.1:5556/, you can now create a synchronisation task. Your data will be stored in USER_HOME/.pydio_data/

Alternative parameters

Alternatively, you can start the program with the following parameters:

• Pass a server configuration through parameters (will be added to the config file)

python -m pydio.main 
        --server=http://yourserver 
        --directory=/path/to/local/dir 
        --workspace=workspace-alias 
        --user=rest_user 
        --password=rest_password

• Pass a path to a json file containing the server configs:

python -m pydio.main 
        --file=/path/to/config.json

In that case, the JSON file must contain an array of "jobs configs" objects, including a type key with value "JobConfig":

[
    {
        "__type__"  : "JobConfig", // This one is important!
        "server"    : "http://mydomain.tld/path",
        "workspace" : "ws_alias_or_id",
        "directory" : "/Path/to/local/folder",
        "user"      : "user",
        "password"  : "password",
        "direction" : "bi", // can be "up", "down", "bi"
        "active"    : true
    }
]

Development Setup

Linux

sudo apt-get install python
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install libzmq3-dev

Windows

Install python 2.7. To quickly setup python start powershell and paste this script

(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/python-2.7.6.msi", "$pwd\python-2.7.6.msi"); msiexec /i python-2.7.6.msi TARGETDIR=C:\Python27
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "$env:Path;C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts\", "User")

Install Pip using powershell

(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py", "$pwd\get-pip.py"); C:\Python27\python.exe get-pip.py virtualenv

or using python itself

python -c "exec('try: from urllib2 import urlopen \nexcept: from urllib.request import urlopen');f=urlopen('https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py').read();exec(f)"

Run sandbox.py to create virtual environment and build the app

Reporting Issues

If you have any questions, please consider finding or posting them on our dedicated forum under "PydioSync Issues", once it is qualified as a bug, you can post them here.

Contributing

Please sign the Contributor License Agreement before contributing.