Developer setup

The following steps highlight the developer install process.

Setup tools

If you are a developer then we strongly suggest installing into a virtual environment to prevent overwriting the production version of ksconf and for the installation of the developer tools. (The virtualenv name ksconfdev-pyve is used below, but this can be whatever suites, just make sure not to commit it. .)

# Setup and activate virtual environment
virtualenv ksconfdev-pyve
. ksconfdev-pyve/bin/activate

# Install developer packages
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Install ksconf

git clone https://github.com/Kintyre/ksconf.git
cd ksconf
pip install .

Building the docs

cd ksconf
. ksconfdev-pyve/bin/activate

cd docs
make html
open build/html/index.html

If you’d like to build PDF, then you’ll need some extra tools. On Mac, you may also want to install the following (for building docs, and the like):

brew install homebrew/cask/mactex-no-gui

(Doh! Still doesn’t work, instructions are incomplete for mac latex, ….)

Contributing back

Pull requests are greatly welcome! If you plan on contributing code back to the main ksconf repo, please follow the standard GitHub fork and pull-request work-flow. We also ask that you enable a set of git hooks to help safeguard against avoidable issues.

Pre-commit hook

The ksconf project uses the pre-commit hook to enable the following checks:

  • Fixes trailing whitespace, EOF, and EOLs
  • Confirms python code compiles (AST)
  • Blocks the committing of large files and keys
  • Rebuilds the CLI docs. (Eventually to be replaced with an argparse Sphinx extension)
  • Confirms that all Unit test pass. (Currently this is the same tests also run by Travis CI, but since test complete in under 5 seconds, the run-everywhere approach seems appropriate for now. Eventually, the local testing will likely become a subset of the full test suite.)

Note that this repo both uses pre-commit for it’s own validation (as discussed here) and provides a pre-commit hook service to other repos. This way repositories housing Splunk apps can, for example, use ‘ksconf –check’ or ksconf --sort against their own .conf files for validation purposes.

Installing the pre-commit hook

To run ensure you changes comply with the ksconf coding standards, please install and activate pre-commit.

Install:

sudo pip install pre-commit

# Register the pre-commit hooks (one time setup) 
cd ksconf
pre-commit install --install-hooks

Install gitlint

Gitlint will check to ensure that commit messages are in compliance with the standard subject, empty-line, body format. You can enable it with:

gitlint install-hook