Installation of CouchDB via pastaELN Wizard not possible

[moritzva]

The installation of CouchDB via the pastaELN Wizard was not possible.

Trying to open pastaELN via python -m pasta_eln.gui resulted in:

**ERROR dit01: Could not connect with username+password to local server

Therefore, CouchDB installer was downloaded manually from the Website (apache-couchdb-3.3.3.msi).
During the installation of this file, username (admin) and password were set. Then, these steps were followed:

(venv-pastaELN) (base) python -m pasta_eln.gui

**ERROR Configuration file does not exist or version is not 2

(venv-pastaELN) (base) python -m pasta_eln.installationTools install

---- Create PASTA-ELN installation ----

Enter user name:
Enter password:

(venv-pastaELN) (base) python -m pasta_eln.installationTools install

No errors

(venv-pastaELN) (base) python -m pasta_eln.gui

Installation successful, access to CouchDB is possible.

Setup

• OS: Windows 10
• python 3.11.5 packaged by Anaconda
• PASTA ELN Version: 2.1.4

[SteffenBrinckmann]

@moritzva Thank you for sending this first issue!

[SteffenBrinckmann]

Stash of information that was in the readme.md file but does not belong there anymore

How to create a new version

1. Lint
2. Type checking: ignore extractors to keep them simple, some mistake might still remain
3. test documentation building. The documentation can be viewed with "firefox docs/build/html/index.html"
4. run test
5. ensure extractors updated
6. do normal commit
7. create a new version:

pylint pasta_eln
mypy pasta_eln/*.py
make -C docs html
pytest -s Tests
diff -q ../Extractors/ pasta_eln/Extractors/ |grep differ

git commit -a -m 'linting and testing'

./commit.py "Minimal viable product" 1

THIS STEP IS NECESSARY FOR ALL GITHUB-Actions TO WORK

Create git-commit-hook

To automatically run many tests, create a file '.git/hooks/pre-commit' and make it executable

#!/bin/sh
#
# Test if extractors updated
if [ "$(diff -q ../Extractors/ pasta_eln/Extractors/ |grep differ |grep extractor)" ]; then
  echo "Differences in EXTRACTOR EXIST"
  exit 1
else
  echo "All is correct: extractors match"
fi
# Run pylint
exec pylint pasta_eln
# Run mypy
exec mypy pasta_eln/*.py
# Test document creation
exec make -C docs html
# Run pytest
exec pytest -s tests
#
echo 'Pre-commit-tests are finished'

HOW TO DIFF Version-1 and Version-2

COMPARE BOTH DIRECTIONS
at .. pasta-eln$ and remember the changes required to Version2 in first change. If nothing to remember, do not execute 2nd command

kdiff pasta_eln/miscTools.py ../Python/miscTools.py
kdiff ../Python/miscTools.py pasta_eln/miscTools.py
kdiff pasta_eln/inputOutput.py ../Python/inputOutput.py
kdiff ../Python/inputOutput.py pasta_eln/inputOutput.py
kdiff pasta_eln/database.py ../Python/database.py
kdiff ../Python/database.py pasta_eln/database.py
kdiff pasta_eln/backend.py ../Python/backend.py
kdiff ../Python/backend.py pasta_eln/backend.py

Desired Differences:

• miscTools:
  • Version1 has colors at the beginning and few additional functions at the end
• inputOutput:
  • NO differences
• database:
  • imports are different
  • init arguments are different
  • Version1 has testUser
  • colorDefinition is small-case in one and upper-case in the other
• backend:
  • imports and base-class different

Differences don't matter:

• subdirectories
• init.py