stac-fastapi-pgstac

PgSTAC backend for stac-fastapi, the FastAPI implementation of the STAC API spec

Overview

stac-fastapi-pgstac is an HTTP interface built in FastAPI. It validates requests and data sent to a PgSTAC backend, and adds links to the returned data. All other processing and search is provided directly using PgSTAC procedural sql / plpgsql functions on the database. PgSTAC stores all collection and item records as jsonb fields exactly as they come in allowing for any custom fields to be stored and retrieved transparently.

Usage

PgSTAC is an external project and may be used by multiple front ends. For Stac FastAPI development, a Docker image (which is pulled as part of the docker-compose) is available via the Github container registry. The PgSTAC version required by stac-fastapi-pgstac is found in the setup file.

Sorting

While the STAC Sort Extension is fully supported, PgSTAC is particularly enhanced to be able to sort by datetime (either ascending or descending). Sorting by anything other than datetime (the default if no sort is specified) on very large STAC repositories without very specific query limits (ie selecting a single day date range) will not have the same performance. For more than millions of records it is recommended to either set a low connection timeout on PostgreSQL or to disable use of the Sort Extension.

Hydration

To configure stac-fastapi-pgstac to hydrate search result items in the API, set the USE_API_HYDRATE environment variable to true or explicitly set the option in the PGStac Settings object.

Migrations

There is a Python utility as part of PgSTAC (pypgstac) that includes a migration utility. To use:

pypgstac migrate

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING for detailed contribution instructions.

To install:

git clone https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac
cd stac-fastapi-pgstac
pip install -e ".[dev,server,docs]"

To test:

make test

Use Github Pull Requests to provide new features or to request review of draft code, and use Issues to report bugs or request new features.

Documentation

To build the docs:

make docs

Then, serve the docs via a local HTTP server:

mkdocs serve

History

stac-fastapi-pgstac was initially added to stac-fastapi by developmentseed. In April of 2023, it was removed from the core stac-fastapi repository and moved to its current location (http://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac).

License

MIT