developer.rst

Developer reference

If you want to contribute to the development of TSIClient, this section helps you to get you started.

Setup

Fork the repository, and install the dependencies. We recommend using a virtual environment when developing (eg virtualenv or pipenv), but that is up to you. Below are the commands for Mac/Linux.

$ git clone https://github.com/<your-github-name>/TSIClient
$ cd TSIClient
$ pip install virtualenv
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

For Windows, use

$ venv/scripts/activate

to activate the virtual environment.

Testing

We use pytest for testing and requests-mock for mocking api calls to the TSI APIs within unittests. You can can get code coverage per file by using the --cov argument (this requires pytest-cov).

You can run tests with:

$ python -m pytest -v --cov=./TSIClient

Docstrings & Documentation

Docstrings are written according the Google style for Python docstrings. See an example here: https://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_google.html.

We use sphinx and Read the Docs for documentation, with separate source and build directory. Please refer to the documentation to get started: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intro/getting-started-with-sphinx.html. You can generate automated documentation from docstrings locally by running the following commands (from the docs directory):

$ cd docs
$ sphinx-apidoc -f -e -o ./source/_autogen/ ../TSIClient --ext-autodoc --private

And build the documentation with:

$ sphinx-build source build

Now you can open the html documentation by opening docs/build/index.html.

Pull requests

Please write tests and docstrings for functionality that you add before submitting a pull request. Make sure to update/generate the .rst files by running the sphinx-apidoc command.