Update to the new GEE authentication process

[dfguerrerom]

I'm opening this issue for future reference.

Newer sepal_ui installations will install the latest earthengine-api version which now requires to set a default project to work with.

With this version, the legacy assets are not longer reachable through getAssetRoots() and I haven't found a way to get them.
There is no need to create a home folder, the default folder is projects/{project}/assets/.

We should update:

• gee folder references
• init_ee function

[12rambau]

I worked on a pytest-gee pytest plugin for this very purpose, I guess sepal-ui could rely on it for the test suit. The difficult part is to ensure it works for both local and distant build.

Side note, I will create a dedicated project as suggested by google people so we are not charged when the testes are run.

[dfguerrerom]

I dont't see any reference to the new project structure in https://github.com/gee-community/pytest-gee/tree/main, I was working on some changes in #905 but the sepal_ui tests failed because of #905 (comment), would you mind checking that comment?

[12rambau]

I just published a new release of pytest-gee that include modifications to match the new project base EE init process.
I also set up the different environment variables needed to make it work.

I don't have much time to dedicate to sepal-ui right now, could you adapt the test code so that it rely on pytest-gee ?

[dfguerrerom]

I just published a new release of pytest-gee that include modifications to match the new project base EE init process. I also set up the different environment variables needed to make it work.

I don't have much time to dedicate to sepal-ui right now, could you adapt the test code so that it rely on pytest-gee ?

The idea of having a pytest- plugin is no so clear to me... to do this integration, do you advice to import pytest-gee as a module and doing the authentication process trhough it?, so replace our init_gee with either method available in this new package?

I'm trying to understand what is a pytest plugin, I hope you can give me an advice.

[12rambau]

oh no, ptest-gee is just for pytest itself. It was extremely enoying to find a proper way to test GEE related packages (and I start to have a decent number of them) so the plugin is simply a wrapper of what we did in sepal_ui in the past. It should only be used for tests.

it remains compatible with the init_ee decorator becasue the first step of it is checking if a user is already connected. so outside of tests you'll see errrors if you forget to Init, in tests you will see nothing as everything get initialized in the conftest.py