Overview

A MLOps framework for generating ML assets and metadata.

Hidebound is an ephemeral database and asset framework used for generating, validating and exporting assets to various data stores. Hidebound enables developers to ingest arbitrary sets of files and output them as content and generated metadata, which has been validated according to specifications they define.

Assets are placed into an ingress directory, typically reserved for Hidebound projects, and then processed by Hidebound. Hidebound extracts metadata from the files and directories that make each asset according to their name, location and file properties. This data comprises the entirety of Hidebound's database at any one time.

See documentation for details.

Installation for Developers

Docker

1. Install docker-desktop
2. Ensure docker-desktop has at least 4 GB of memory allocated to it.
3. git clone git@github.com:theNewFlesh/hidebound.git
4. cd hidebound
5. chmod +x bin/hidebound
6. bin/hidebound docker-start
   • If building on a M1 Mac run export DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64 first.

The service should take a few minutes to start up.

Run bin/hidebound --help for more help on the command line tool.

ZSH Setup

1. bin/hidebound must be run from this repository's top level directory.

2. Therefore, if using zsh, it is recommended that you paste the following line in your ~/.zshrc file:

   • alias hidebound="cd [parent dir]/hidebound; bin/hidebound"
   • Replace [parent dir] with the parent directory of this repository

3. Consider adding the following line to your ~/.zshrc if you are using a M1 Mac:

   • export DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64

4. Running the zsh-complete command will enable tab completions of the cli commands, in the next shell session.

   For example:

   • hidebound [tab] will show you all the cli options, which you can press tab to cycle through
   • hidebound docker-[tab] will show you only the cli options that begin with "docker-"

Installation for Production

Python

pip install hidebound

Docker

1. Install docker-desktop
2. docker pull thenewflesh/hidebound:[version]

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Dataflow

Data begins as files on disk. Hidebound creates a JSON-compatible dict from their name traits and file traits and then constructs an internal database table from them, one dict per row. All the rows are then aggregated by asset, and converted into JSON blobs. Those blobs are then validated according to their respective specifications. Files from valid assets are then copied or moved into Hidebound's content directory, according to their same directory structure and naming. Metadata is written to JSON files inside Hidebound's metadata directory. Each file's metadata is written as a JSON file in /hidebound/metadata/file, and each asset's metadata (the aggregate of its file metadata) is written to /hidebound/metadata/asset. From their exporters, can export the valid asset data and its accompanying metadata to various locations, like an AWS S3 bucket.

Workflow

The acronynm to remember for workflows is CRUDES: create, read, update, delete, export and search. Those operations constitue the main functionality that Hidebound supports.

Create Asset

For example, an asset could be an image sequence, such as a directory full of PNG files, all of which have a frame number, have 3 (RGB) channels, and are 1024 pixels wide by 1024 pixels tall. Let's call the specification for this type of asset "spec001". We create an image sequence of a cat running, and we move it into the Hidebound projects directory.

Update

We call the update function via Hidebound's web app. Hidebound creates a new database based upon the recursive listing of all the files within said directory. This database is displayed to us as a table, with one file per row. If we choose to group by asset in the app, the table will display one asset per row. Hidebound extracts metadata from each filename (not any directory name) as well as from the file itself. That metadata is called file_traits. Using only information derived from filename and file traits, Hidebound determines which files are grouped together as a single asset and the specification of that asset. Asset traits are then derived from this set of files (one or more). Finally, Hidebound validates each asset according to its determined specification. All of this data is displayed as a table within the web app. Importantly, all of the errors in filenames, file traits and asset traits are included.

Review Graph

If we click on the graph tab, we are greeted by a hierarchical graph of all our assets in our project directory. Our asset is red, meaning it's invalid. Valid asset's are green, and all other files and directories, including parent directories, are cyan.

Diagnose and Repair

We flip back to the data tab. Using table within it, we search (via SQL) for our asset within Hidebound's freshly created database. We see an error in one of the filenames, conveniently displayed in red text. The descriptor in one orf our filenames has capital letters in it. This violates Hidebound's naming convention, and so we get an error. We go and rename the file appropriately and call update again. Our asset is now valid. The filenames are correct and we can see in the height and width columns, that it's 1024 by 1024 and the channels column says it has three.

Create

Next we click the create button. For each valid asset, Hidebound generates file and asset metadata as JSON files within the hidebound/metadata directory. Hidebound also copies or moves, depending on the config write mode, valid files and directories into the hidebound/content directory. Hidebound/content and hidebound/metadata are both staging directories used for generating a valid ephemeral database. We now have a hidebound directory that looks like this (unmentioned assets are collapsed behind the ellipses):

/tmp/hidebound
├── hidebound_config.yaml
│
├── specifications
│   └── specifications.py
│
├── data
│   ...
│   └── p-cat001
│       └── spec001
│           └── p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001
│               ├── p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001_c0000-0005_f0001.png
│               ├── p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001_c0000-0005_f0002.png
│               └── p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001_c0000-0005_f0003.png
│
├── metadata
    ├── asset
    │   ...
    │   └── a9f3727c-cb9b-4eb1-bc84-a6bc3b756cc5.json
    │
    └── file
        ...
        ├── 279873a2-bfd0-4757-abf2-7dc4f771f992.json
        ├── e50160ae-8678-40b3-b766-ee8311b1f0c9.json
        └── ea95bd79-cb8f-4262-8489-efe734c5f65c.json

Export

The hidebound directories contain only valid assets. Thus, we are now free to export this data to various data stores, such as AWS S3, MongoDB, and Girder. Exporters are are defined within the exporters subpackage. They expect a populated hidebound directory and use the files and metadata therein to export hidebound data. Exporter configurations are stored in the hidebound config, under the "exporters" key. Currently supported exporters include, disk, s3 and girder. Below we can see the results of an export to Girder in the Girder web app.

Delete

Once this export process is complete, we may click the delete button. Hidebound deletes the hidebound/content and hidebound/metdata directories and all their contents. If write_mode in the Hidebound configuration is set to "copy", then this step will merely delete data created by Hidebound. If it is set to "move", then Hidebound will presumably delete, the only existing copy of out asset data on the host machine. The delete stage in combination with the removal of assets from the ingress directory is what makes Hidebound's database ephemeral.

Workflow

/api/workflow is a API endpoint that initializes a database a with a given config, and then calls each method from a given list. For instance, if you send this data to /api/workflow:

{config={...}, workflow=['update', 'create', 'export', 'delete']}

A database instance will be created with the given config, and then that instance will call its update, create, export and delete methods, in that order.

Naming Convention

Hidebound is a highly opinionated framework that relies upon a strict but composable naming convention in order to extract metadata from filenames. All files and directories that are part of assets must conform to a naming convention defined within that asset's specification.

In an over-simplified sense; sentences are constructions of words. Syntax concerns how each word is formed, grammar concerns how to form words into a sentence, and semantics concerns what each word means. Similarly, filenames can be thought of as crude sentences. They are made of several words (ie fields). These words have distinct semantics (as determines by field indicators). Each word is constructed according to a syntax (ie indicator + token). All words are joined together by spaces (ie underscores) in a particular order as determined by grammar (as defined in each specification).

Syntax

• Names consist of a series of fields, each separated by a single underscore “_”, also called a field separator.
• Periods, ".", are the exception to this, as it indicates file extension.
• Legal characters include and only include:

Name	Characters	Use
Underscore	_	only for field separation
Period	.	only for file extensions
Lowercase letter	a to z	everything
Number	0 to 9	everything
Hyphen	-	token separator

Fields are comprised of two main parts:

Name	Use
Field indicator	determines metadata key
Field token	a set of 1+ characters that define the field's data

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Example Diagrams

In our example filename: p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001_c0000-0005_f0003.png the metadata will be:

{
    "project": "cat001",
    "specification": "spec001",
    "descriptor": "running-cat",
    "version": 1,
    "coordinate": [0, 5],
    "frame": 3,
    "extension": "png",
}

The spec001 specification is derived from the second field of this filename:

      field   field
  indicator   token
          | __|__
         | |     |
p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001_c0000-0005_f0003.png
         |_______|
             |
           field

Part	Value
Field	s-spec001
Field indicator	s-
Field token	spec001
Derived metadata	{specification: spec001}

Special Field Syntax

• Projects begin with 3 to 10 letters followed by 1 to 4 numbers
• Specifications begin with 3 or 4 letters followed by 3 numbers
• Descriptors begin with a letter or number and may also contain hyphens
• Descriptors may not begin with the words master, final or last
• Versions are triple-padded with zeros and must be greater than 0
• Coordinates may contain up to 3 quadruple-padded numbers, separated by hyphens
• Coordinates are always evaluated in XYZ order. For example: c0001-0002-0003 produces {x: 1, y: 2, z: 3}.
• Each element of a coordinate may be equal to or greater than zero
• Frames are quadruple-padded and are greater than or equal to 0
• Extensions may only contain upper and lower case letters a to z and numbers 0 to 9

Semantics

Hidebound is highly opionated, especially with regards to its semantics. It contains exactly seven field types, as indicated by their field indicators. They are:

Field	Indicator
project	p-
specification	s-
descriptor	d-
version	v
coordinate	c
frame	f
extension	.

Grammar

The grammar is fairly simple:

• Names are comprised of an ordered set of fields drawn from the seven above
• All names must contain the specification field
• All specification must define a field order
• All fields of a name under that specification must occcur in its defined field order

Its is highly encouraged that fields be defined in the following order:

project specification descriptor version coordinate frame extension

The grammatical concept of field order here is one of rough encapsulation:

• Projects contain assets
• Assets are grouped by specification
• A set of assets of the same content is grouped by a descriptor
• That set of assets consists of multiple versions of the same content
• A single asset may broken into chunks, identified by 1, 2 or 3 coordinates
• Each chunk may consist of a series of files seperated by frame number
• Each file has an extension

Encouraged Lexical Conventions

• Specifications end with a triple padded number so that they may be explicitely versioned. You redefine an asset specification to something slightly different, by copying its specification class, adding one to its name and change the class attributes in some way. That way you always maintain backwards compatibility with legacy assets.
• Descriptors are not a dumping ground for useless terms like wtf, junk, stuff, wip and test.
• Descriptors should not specify information known at the asset specification level, such as the project name, the generic content of the asset (ie image, mask, png, etc).
• Descriptors should not include information that can be known from the preceding tokens, such as version, frame or extension.
• A descriptor should be applicable to every version of the asset it designates.
• Use of hyphens in descriptors is encouraged.
• When in doubt, hyphenate and put into the descriptor.

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Project Structure

Hidebound does not formally define a project structure. It merely stipulates that assets must exist under some particular root directory. Each asset specification does define a directory structure for the files that make up that asset. Assets are divided into 3 types: file, sequence and complex. File defines an asset that consists of a single file. Sequence is defined to be a single directory containing one or more files. Complex is for assets that consist of an arbitrarily complex layout of directories and files.

The following project structure is recommended:

project
    |-- specification
        |-- descriptor
            |-- asset      # either a file or directory of files and directories
                |- file

For Example

/tmp/projects
└── p-cat001
    ├── s-spec002
    │   ├── d-calico-jumping
    │   │   └── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-calico-jumping_v001
    │   │       ├── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-calico-jumping_v001_f0001.png
    │   │       ├── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-calico-jumping_v001_f0002.png
    │   │       └── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-calico-jumping_v001_f0003.png
    │   │
    │   └── d-tabby-playing
    │       ├── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-tabby-playing_v001
    │       │   ├── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-tabby-playing_v001_f0001.png
    │       │   ├── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-tabby-playing_v001_f0002.png
    │       │   └── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-tabby-playing_v001_f0003.png
    │       │
    │       └── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-tabby-playing_v002
    │           ├── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-tabby-playing_v002_f0001.png
    │           ├── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-tabby-playing_v002_f0002.png
    │           └── p-cat001_s-spec002_d-tabby-playing_v002_f0003.png
    │
    └── spec001
        └── p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001
            ├── p-cat001_s-spec001_d-Running-Cat_v001_c0000-0005_f0002.png
            ├── p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001_c0000-0005_f0001.png
            └── p-cat001_s-spec001_d-running-cat_v001_c0000-0005_f0003.png

Application

The Hidebound web application has five sections: data, graph, config, api and docs.

Data

The data tab is the workhorse of the Hidebound app.

Its functions are as follows:

• Search - Search the updated database's data via SQL
• Dropdown - Groups search results by file or asset
• Init - Initialized the database with the current config
• Update - Initializes and updates the database with the current config
• Create - Copies or moves valid assets to hidebound/content directory and creates JSON files in hidebound/metadata directory
• Delete - Deletes hidebound/content and hidebound/metadata directories

Prior to calling update, the application will look like this:

Graph

The graph tab is used for visualizing the state of all the assets within a root directory.

It's color code is as follows:

Color	Meaning
Cyan	Non-asset file or directory
Green	Valid asset
Red	Invalid asset

Config

The config tab is used for uploading and writing Hidebound's configuration file.

API

The API tab is really a link to Hidebound's REST API documentation.

Docs

The API tab is really a link to Hidebound's github documentation.

Errors

Hidebound is oriented towards developers and technically proficient users. It displays errors in their entirety within the application.

Configuration

Hidebound is configured via a configuration file or environment variables.

Hidebound configs consist of four main sections:

Base

• ingress_directory - the directory hidebound parses for assets that comprise its database
• staging_directory - the staging directory valid assets are created in
• specification_files - a list of python specification files
• include_regex - filepaths in the root that match this are included in the database
• exclude_regex - filepaths in the root that match this are excluded from the database
• write_mode - whether to copy or move files from root to staging
• redact_regex - regular expression which matches config keys whose valuse are to be redacted
• redact_hash - whether to redact config values with "REDACTED" or a hash of the value
• workflow - order list of steps to be followed in workflow

Dask

Default configuration of Dask distributed framework.

• cluster_type - dask cluster type
• num_partitions - number of partions for each dataframe
• local_num_workers - number of workers on local cluster
• local_threads_per_worker - number of threads per worker on local cluster
• local_multiprocessing - use multiprocessing for local cluster
• gateway_address - gateway server address
• gateway_proxy_address - scheduler proxy server address
• gateway_public_address - gateway server address, as accessible from a web browser
• gateway_auth_type - authentication type
• gateway_api_token - api token or password
• gateway_api_user - api user
• gateway_cluster_options - list of dask gateway cluster options
• gateway_shutdown_on_close - whether to shudown cluster upon close
• gateway_timeout - gateway client timeout

Exporters

Which exporters to us in the workflow. Options include:

• s3
• disk
• girder

Webhooks

Webhooks to call after the export phase has completed.

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Environment Variables

If HIDEBOUND_CONFIG_FILEPATH is set, Hidebound will ignore all other environment variables and read the given filepath in as a yaml or json config file.

Variable	Format	Portion
HIDEBOUND_CONFIG_FILEPATH	str	Entire Hidebound config file
HIDEBOUND_INGRESS_DIRECTORY	str	ingress_directory parameter of config
HIDEBOUND_STAGING_DIRECTORY	str	staging_directory parameter of config
HIDEBOUND_INCLUDE_REGEX	str	include_regex parameter of config
HIDEBOUND_EXCLUDE_REGEX	str	exclude_regex parameter of config
HIDEBOUND_WRITE_MODE	str	write_mode parameter of config
HIDEBOUND_REDACT_REGEX	str	redact_regex parameter of config
HIDEBOUND_REDACT_HASH	str	redact_hash parameter of config
HIDEBOUND_WORKFLOW	yaml	workflow paramater of config
HIDEBOUND_SPECIFICATION_FILES	yaml	specification_files section of config
HIDEBOUND_DASK_CLUSTER_TYPE	str	dask cluster type
HIDEBOUND_DASK_NUM_PARTITIONS	int	number of partions for each dataframe
HIDEBOUND_DASK_LOCAL_NUM_WORKERS	int	number of workers on local cluster
HIDEBOUND_DASK_LOCAL_THREADS_PER_WORKER	int	number of threads per worker on local cluster
HIDEBOUND_DASK_LOCAL_MULTIPROCESSING	str	use multiprocessing for local cluster
HIDEBOUND_DASK_GATEWAY_ADDRESS	str	gateway server address
HIDEBOUND_DASK_GATEWAY_PROXY_ADDRESS	str	scheduler proxy server address
HIDEBOUND_DASK_GATEWAY_PUBLIC_ADDRESS	str	gateway server address, as accessible from a web browser
HIDEBOUND_DASK_GATEWAY_AUTH_TYPE	str	authentication type
HIDEBOUND_DASK_GATEWAY_API_TOKEN	str	api token or password
HIDEBOUND_DASK_GATEWAY_API_USER	str	api user
HIDEBOUND_DASK_GATEWAY_CLUSTER_OPTIONS	yaml	list of dask gateway cluster options
HIDEBOUND_DASK_GATEWAY_SHUTDOWN_ON_CLOSE	str	whether to shudown cluster upon close
HIDEBOUND_TIMEOUT	int	gateway client timeout
HIDEBOUND_EXPORTERS	yaml	exporters section of config
HIDEBOUND_WEBHOOKS	yaml	webhooks section of config
HIDEBOUND_TESTING	str	run in test mode

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Config File

Here is a full example config with comments:

ingress_directory: /mnt/storage/projects                                 # where hb looks for assets
staging_directory: /mnt/storage/hidebound                                # hb staging directory
include_regex: ""                                                        # include files that match
exclude_regex: "\\.DS_Store"                                             # exclude files that match
write_mode: copy                                                         # copy files from root to staging
                                                                         # options: copy, move
redact_regex: "(_key|_id|_token|url)$"                                   # regex matched config keys to redact
redact_hash: true                                                        # hash redacted values
workflow:                                                                # workflow steps
  - delete                                                               # clear staging directory
  - update                                                               # create database from ingress files
  - create                                                               # stage valid assets
  - export                                                               # export assets in staging
specification_files:                                                     # list of spec files
  - /mnt/storage/specs/image_specs.py
  - /mnt/storage/specs/video_specs.py
dask:
  cluster_type: local                                                    # Dask cluster type
                                                                         # options: local, gateway
  num_partitions: 16                                                     # number of partions for each dataframe
  local_num_workers: 16                                                  # number of workers on local cluster
  local_threads_per_worker: 1                                            # number of threads per worker on local cluster
  local_multiprocessing: true                                            # use multiprocessing for local cluster
  gateway_address: http://proxy-public/services/dask-gateway             # gateway server address
  gateway_proxy_address: gateway://traefik-daskhub-dask-gateway.core:80  # scheduler proxy server address
  gateway_public_address: https://dask-gateway/services/dask-gateway/    # gateway server address, as accessible from a web browser
  gateway_auth_type: jupyterhub                                          # authentication type
  gateway_api_token: token123                                            # api token or password
  gateway_api_user: admin                                                # api user
  gateway_cluster_options:                                               # list of dask gateway options
    - field: image                                                       # option field
      label: image                                                       # option label
      option_type: select                                                # options: bool, float, int, mapping, select, string
      default: "some-image:latest"                                       # option default value
      options:                                                           # list of choices if option_type is select
        - "some-image:latest"                                            # choice 1
        - "some-image:0.1.2"                                             # choice 2
  gateway_min_workers: 1                                                 # min dask gateway workers
  gateway_max_workers: 8                                                 # max dask gateway workers
  gateway_shutdown_on_close: true                                        # whether to shudown cluster upon close
  gateway_timeout: 30                                                    # gateway client timeout
exporters:                                                               # dict of exporter configs
  - name: disk                                                           # export to disk
    target_directory: /mnt/storage/archive                               # target location
    metadata_types:                                                      # options: asset, file, asset-chunk, file-chunk
      - asset                                                            # only asset and file metadata
      - file
    dask:                                                                # dask settings override
      num_workers: 8
      local_threads_per_worker: 2
  - name: s3                                                             # export to s3
    access_key: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST                                     # aws access key
    secret_key: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890abcd                 # aws secret key
    bucket: prod-data                                                    # s3 bucket
    region: us-west-2                                                    # bucket region
    metadata_types:                                                      # options: asset, file, asset-chunk, file-chunk
      - asset                                                            # drop file metadata
      - asset-chunk
      - file-chunk
    dask:                                                                # dask settings override
      cluster_type: gateway
      num_workers: 64
  - name: girder                                                         # export to girder
    api_key: eyS0nj9qPC5E7yK5l7nhGVPqDOBKPdA3EC60Rs9h                    # girder api key
    root_id: 5ed735c8d8dd6242642406e5                                    # root resource id
    root_type: collection                                                # root resource type
    host: http://prod.girder.com                                         # girder server url
    port: 8180                                                           # girder server port
    metadata_types:                                                      # options: asset, file
      - asset                                                            # only asset metadata
    dask:                                                                # dask settings override
      num_workers: 10
    dask:                                                                # dask settings override
      num_workers: 10
webhooks:                                                                # call these after export
  - url: https://hooks.slack.com/services/ABCDEFGHI/JKLMNO               # slack URL
    method: post                                                         # post this to slack
    timeout: 60                                                          # timeout after 60 seconds
    # params: {}                                                         # params to post (NA here)
    # json: {}                                                           # json to post (NA here)
    data:                                                                # data to post
      channel: "#hidebound"                                              # slack data
      text: export complete                                              # slack data
      username: hidebound                                                # slack data
    headers:                                                             # request headers
      Content-type: application/json

Specification

Asset specifications are defined in python using the base classes found in specification_base.py. The base classes are defined using the schematics framework. Hidebound generates a single JSON blob of metadata for each file of an asset, and then combines blob into a single blob with a list values per key. Thus every class member defined with schematics is encapsulated with ListType.

Example asset

Suppose we have an image sequence asset that we wish to define a specificqtion for. Our image sequences consist of a directory containing 1 or 3 channel png with frame numbers in the filename.

projects
    └── cat001
        └── raw001
            └── p-cat001_s-raw001_d-calico-jumping_v001
                ├── p-cat001_s-raw001_d-calico-jumping_v001_f0001.png
                ├── p-cat001_s-raw001_d-calico-jumping_v001_f0002.png
                └── p-cat001_s-raw001_d-calico-jumping_v001_f0003.png

Example specification

We would write the following specification for such an asset.

from schematics.types import IntType, ListType, StringType
import hidebound.core.validators as vd  # validates traits
import hidebound.core.traits as tr      # gets properties of files and file names
from hidebound.core.specification_base import SequenceSpecificationBase

class Raw001(SequenceSpecificationBase):
    asset_name_fields = [  # naming convention for asset directory
        'project', 'specification', 'descriptor', 'version'
    ]
    filename_fields = [    # naming convention for asset files
        'project', 'specification', 'descriptor', 'version', 'frame',
        'extension'
    ]
    height = ListType(IntType(), required=True)  # heights of png images
    width = ListType(IntType(), required=True)   # widths of png images
    frame = ListType(
        IntType(),
        required=True,
        validators=[vd.is_frame]  # validates that frame is between 0 and 9999
    )
    channels = ListType(
        IntType(),
        required=True,
        validators=[lambda x: vd.is_in(x, [1, 3])]  # validates that png is 1 or 3 channel
    )
    extension = ListType(
        StringType(),
        required=True,
        validators=[
            vd.is_extension,
            lambda x: vd.is_eq(x, 'png')  # validates that image is png
        ]
    )
    file_traits = dict(
        width=tr.get_image_width,            # retrieves image width from file
        height=tr.get_image_height,          # retrieves image height from file
        channels=tr.get_num_image_channels,  # retrieves image channel number from file
    )

Production CLI

Hidebound comes with a command line interface defined in command.py.

Its usage pattern is: hidebound COMMAND [FLAGS] [-h --help]

Commands

Command	Description
bash-completion	Prints BASH completion code to be written to a _hidebound completion file
config	Prints hidebound config
serve	Runs a hidebound server
zsh-completion	Prints ZSH completion code to be written to a _hidebound completion file

Flags

Command	Flag	Description	Default
serve	--port	Server port	8080
serve	--timeout	Gunicorn timeout	0
serve	--testing	Testing mode	False
serve	--debug	Debug mode (no gunicorn)	False
all	--help	Show help message

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Quickstart Guide

This repository contains a suite commands for the whole development process. This includes everything from testing, to documentation generation and publishing pip packages.

These commands can be accessed through:

• The VSCode task runner
• The VSCode task runner side bar
• A terminal running on the host OS
• A terminal within this repositories docker container

Running the zsh-complete command will enable tab completions of the CLI. See the zsh setup section for more information.

Command Groups

Development commands are grouped by one of 10 prefixes:

Command	Description
build	Commands for building packages for testing and pip publishing
docker	Common docker commands such as build, start and stop
docs	Commands for generating documentation and code metrics
library	Commands for managing python package dependencies
session	Commands for starting interactive sessions such as jupyter lab and python
state	Command to display the current state of the repo and container
test	Commands for running tests, linter and type annotations
version	Commands for bumping project versions
quickstart	Display this quickstart guide
zsh	Commands for running a zsh session in the container and generating zsh completions

Common Commands

Here are some frequently used commands to get you started:

Command	Description
docker-restart	Restart container
docker-start	Start container
docker-stop	Stop container
docs-full	Generate documentation, coverage report, diagram and code
library-add	Add a given package to a given dependency group
library-graph-dev	Graph dependencies in dev environment
library-remove	Remove a given package from a given dependency group
library-search	Search for pip packages
library-update	Update dev dependencies
session-lab	Run jupyter lab server
state	State of
test-dev	Run all tests
test-lint	Run linting and type checking
zsh	Run ZSH session inside container
zsh-complete	Generate ZSH completion script

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Development CLI

bin/hidebound is a command line interface (defined in cli.py) that works with any version of python 2.7 and above, as it has no dependencies. Commands generally do not expect any arguments or flags.

Its usage pattern is: bin/hidebound COMMAND [-a --args]=ARGS [-h --help] [--dryrun]

Commands

The following is a complete list of all available development commands:

Command	Description
build-package	Build production version of repo for publishing
build-prod	Publish pip package of repo to PyPi
build-publish	Run production tests first then publish pip package of repo to PyPi
build-test	Build test version of repo for prod testing
docker-build	Build Docker image
docker-build-from-cache	Build Docker image from cached image
docker-build-prod	Build production image
docker-container	Display the Docker container id
docker-destroy	Shutdown container and destroy its image
docker-destroy-prod	Shutdown production container and destroy its image
docker-image	Display the Docker image id
docker-prod	Start production container
docker-pull-dev	Pull development image from Docker registry
docker-pull-prod	Pull production image from Docker registry
docker-push-dev	Push development image to Docker registry
docker-push-dev-latest	Push development image to Docker registry with dev-latest tag
docker-push-prod	Push production image to Docker registry
docker-push-prod-latest	Push production image to Docker registry with prod-latest tag
docker-remove	Remove Docker image
docker-restart	Restart Docker container
docker-start	Start Docker container
docker-stop	Stop Docker container
docs	Generate sphinx documentation
docs-architecture	Generate architecture.svg diagram from all import statements
docs-full	Generate documentation, coverage report, diagram and code
docs-metrics	Generate code metrics report, plots and tables
library-add	Add a given package to a given dependency group
library-graph-dev	Graph dependencies in dev environment
library-graph-prod	Graph dependencies in prod environment
library-install-dev	Install all dependencies into dev environment
library-install-prod	Install all dependencies into prod environment
library-list-dev	List packages in dev environment
library-list-prod	List packages in prod environment
library-lock-dev	Resolve dev.lock file
library-lock-prod	Resolve prod.lock file
library-remove	Remove a given package from a given dependency group
library-search	Search for pip packages
library-sync-dev	Sync dev environment with packages listed in dev.lock
library-sync-prod	Sync prod environment with packages listed in prod.lock
library-update	Update dev dependencies
library-update-pdm	Update PDM
quickstart	Display quickstart guide
session-lab	Run jupyter lab server
session-python	Run python session with dev dependencies
session-server	Runn application server inside Docker container
state	State of repository and Docker container
test-coverage	Generate test coverage report
test-dev	Run all tests
test-fast	Test all code excepts tests marked with SKIP_SLOWS_TESTS decorator
test-lint	Run linting and type checking
test-prod	Run tests across all support python versions
version	Full resolution of repo: dependencies, linting, tests, docs, etc
version-bump-major	Bump pyproject major version
version-bump-minor	Bump pyproject minor version
version-bump-patch	Bump pyproject patch version
version-commit	Tag with version and commit changes to master
zsh	Run ZSH session inside Docker container
zsh-complete	Generate oh-my-zsh completions
zsh-root	Run ZSH session as root inside Docker container

Flags

Short	Long	Description
-a	--args	Additional arguments, this can generally be ignored
-h	--help	Prints command help message to stdout
	--dryrun	Prints command that would otherwise be run to stdout