ZEN-temple

ZEN-temple is a FastAPI Application that provides a REST API to access results from ZEN-garden. It is used as a backend for ZEN-Explorer.

🛠️ Requirements

• Conda (https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html)
• Python 3.10 or higher

📦 Installation

Perform the following steps to install ZEN-temple:

1. Clone the repository and navigate into the folder:

   git clone https://github.com/ZEN-universe/ZEN-temple.git
   cd ZEN-temple

2. Create a new conda environment, activate it, and install all dependencies:

   conda create --name <your-env-name> python==3.13
   conda activate <your-env-name>
   pip install -e .[mypy]

3. Create a new copy of .env.

   cp .env.example .env

   Modify the SOLUTION_FOLDER variable to the location of your solutions, e.g. ./outputs. This is the outputs folder generated by ZEN-garden.

▶️ Usage

Open this folder in your terminal. Activate your conda environment for this project and run the application with the following commands:

conda activate <your-env-name>
python -m zen_temple.main --reload

For information about the available command line arguments run:

python -m zen_temple.main --help

📤 Release workflow

To create a new release of ZEN-temple follow the following steps. The idea is that for each major release (from v0.4.x to v0.5.0) we sync the version number of ZEN-explorer and ZEN-temple

1. Bump version in ZEN-explorer bash scripts/bump_version.sh and update its CHANGELOG.md.
2. Commit and upload the updated files to GitHub.
3. Create a new release for ZEN-explorer: https://github.com/ZEN-universe/ZEN-explorer/releases/new
4. Bump version in ZEN-temple bash scripts/bump_version.sh and update CHANGELOG.md.
5. Commit and upload the updated files to GitHub.
6. Create a new release for ZEN-temple, e.g. <version>. For a pre-release also add a suffix .dev1, i.e. <version>.dev1, and mark the release as pre-release: https://github.com/ZEN-universe/ZEN-temple/releases/new
7. (optional) Look at PyPI whether the new release has successfully been created: https://pypi.org/project/zen-temple/#history

🗂️ Folder structure

The folder and file structure is the following:

Explorer

explorer contains the HTML files for the frontend.

Warning

Do not edit the files in this folder. This folder is automatically generated by the frontend repository pipeline.

Models

models contains the Pydantic-models that are used for the documentation. Some of these models also include generators that create an instance of the model given the path of a solution. See https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/body/#create-your-data-model

Repositories

repositories contains the repositories for the data access. These provide an abstraction layer for the routers such that the data access is separated from the data source. Arguably, the generators defined in the models should be part of the repository in order to separate the instantiation of the models from the way that the solutions are stored. For more information visit https://www.umlboard.com/design-patterns/repository.html

Routers

routers contains the FastAPI routers which define the different paths of the API server. For more information visit https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/bigger-applications/

Config

config.py contains the config of the application.

Main

main.py contains the setup of the FastAPI application. For more information visit https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/bigger-applications/