openwisp-controller

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OpenWISP 2 controller module (built using Python and the Django web-framework).

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Deploy it in production

An automated installer is available at ansible-openwisp2.

Dependencies

• Python 2.7 or Python >= 3.4
• OpenSSL

Install stable version from pypi

Install from pypi:

pip install openwisp-controller

Install development version

Install tarball:

pip install https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-controller/tarball/master

Alternatively you can install via pip using git:

pip install -e git+git://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-controller#egg=openwisp_controller

If you want to contribute, install your cloned fork:

git clone git@github.com:<your_fork>/openwisp-controller.git
cd openwisp_controller
python setup.py develop

Setup (integrate in an existing django project)

INSTALLED_APPS and EXTENDED_APPS (an internal openwisp2 setting) in settings.py should look like the following (ordering is important):

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.gis',
    # all-auth
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'allauth',
    'allauth.account',
    'allauth.socialaccount',
    'django_extensions',
    # openwisp2 modules
    'openwisp_users',
    'openwisp_controller.pki',
    'openwisp_controller.config',
    'openwisp_controller.geo',
    # admin
    'openwisp_utils.admin_theme',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # other dependencies
    'sortedm2m',
    'reversion',
    'leaflet',
    # rest framework
    'rest_framework',
    'rest_framework_gis',
    # channels
    'channels',
]

EXTENDED_APPS = ('django_netjsonconfig', 'django_x509', 'django_loci',)

Ensure you are using one of the available geodjango backends, eg:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.spatialite',
        'NAME': 'openwisp-controller.db',
    }
}

Add openwisp_utils.staticfiles.DependencyFinder to STATICFILES_FINDERS in your settings.py:

STATICFILES_FINDERS = [
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
    'openwisp_utils.staticfiles.DependencyFinder',
]

Add openwisp_utils.loaders.DependencyLoader to TEMPLATES in your settings.py

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'OPTIONS': {
            'loaders': [
                'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
                'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
                'openwisp_utils.loaders.DependencyLoader',
            ],
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    }
]

Add the following settings to settings.py:

FORM_RENDERER = 'django.forms.renderers.TemplatesSetting'

CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'asgiref.inmemory.ChannelLayer',
        'ROUTING': 'openwisp_controller.geo.channels.routing.channel_routing',
    },
}

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'admin:index'
ACCOUNT_LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL

urls.py:

from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

from openwisp_utils.admin_theme.admin import admin, openwisp_admin

openwisp_admin()

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'', include('openwisp_controller.urls')),
]

urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

Installing for development

Install sqlite:

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev openssl libssl-dev

Install your forked repo:

git clone git://github.com/<your_fork>/openwisp-controller
cd openwisp-controller/
python setup.py develop

Install test requirements:

pip install -r requirements-test.txt

Create database:

cd tests/
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser

Launch development server:

./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

You can access the admin interface at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.

Run tests with:

./runtests.py

Install and run on docker

Build from the Dockerfile:

  sudo docker build -t openwisp/controller .

Run the docker container:

  sudo docker run -it -p 8000:8000 openwisp/controller

Talks

• OpenWISP2 - a self hosted solution to control OpenWRT/LEDE devices (FOSDEM 2017)

Contributing

1. Announce your intentions in the OpenWISP Mailing List
2. Fork this repo and install it
3. Follow PEP8, Style Guide for Python Code
4. Write code
5. Write tests for your code
6. Ensure all tests pass
7. Ensure test coverage does not decrease
8. Document your changes
9. Send pull request

Changelog

See CHANGES.

License

See LICENSE.