Development

Setup quickstart

  1. Install required software: Docker, make, and git.

    Linux:

    Use your package manager.

    OSX:

    Install Docker for Mac.

    Use homebrew to install make and git:

    $ brew install make git

    Other:

    Install Docker.

    Install make.

    Install git.

  2. Clone the repository so you have a copy on your host machine.

    Instructions for cloning are on the Tecken page in GitHub.

  3. (Optional for Linux users) Set UID and GID for Docker container user.

    If you’re on Linux or you want to set the UID/GID of the app user that runs in the Docker containers, run:

    $ make .env

    Then edit the file and set the APP_UID and APP_GID variables. These will get used when creating the app user in the base image.

    If you ever want different values, change them in .env and re-run make build.

  4. Build Docker images for Socorro services.

    From the root of this repository, run:

    $ make build

    That will build the app Docker image required for development.

  5. Initialize Postgres and S3 (localstack) / GCS (gcs-emulator).

    Run:

    $ make setup

    This creates the Postgres database and sets up tables, integrity rules, and a bunch of other things.

    For S3/GCS, this creates the required buckets.

Tecken consists of Symbols Service webapp that covers uploading and downloading symbols.

To run the webapp service, do:

$ make run

The Symbols Service webapp is at: http://localhost:3000

How to

How to set up a development container for VS Code

The repository contains configuration files to build a development container in the .devcontainer directory. If you have the “Dev Containers” extension installed in VS Code, you should be prompted whether you want to reopen the folder in a container on startup. You can also use the “Dev containers: Reopen in container” command from the command palette. The container has all Python requirements installed. IntelliSense, type checking, code formatting with Ruff and running the tests from the test browser are all set up to work without further configuration.

VS Code should automatically start the container, but it may need to be built on first run:

$ make devcontainerbuild

What services are running in a local dev environment

service

port

description

frontend

3000

Javascript proxy for webapp–use with browser

web

8000

Django webapp–use with APIs

localstack

4566

S3 emulation service

gcs-emulator

4443

GCS emulation service

db

5432

Postgres database

redis

6379

Redis service

fakesentry

8090

Sentry emulation service

oidcprovider

8080

SSO emulation service

statsd

8081

Grafana / statsd

How to change settings in your local dev environment

Edit the .env file and add/remove/change settings. These environment variables are used by make and automatically included by docker compose.

If you are using a VS Code development container for other repositories such as eliot or socorro, you may need to change the default ports exposed by docker compose to avoid conflicts with similar services, for example:

EXPOSE_TECKEN_PORT=8200
EXPOSE_LOCALSTACK_PORT=4567
EXPOSE_SENTRY_PORT=8290
EXPOSE_OIDC_PORT=8280
EXPOSE_STATSD_PORT=8281
EXPOSE_GCS_EMULATOR_PORT=4443

If you are using a development container for VS Code, you make need to restart the container to pick up changes:

$ make devcontainer

How to create a script to recreate your local dev environment

Run:

$ make slick.sh

Then edit the slick.sh script filling in:

  • a username

  • a password

  • an email address

None of these matter except that you need them to enter values into the SSO emulation service when you log into your Tecken local dev environment.

You can use slick.sh to recreate your local dev environment, create a superuser account, and create API tokens. This simplifies setting everything up when you’re switching contexts or testing things.

$ ./slick.sh
[gobs of output here]

How to use the webapp

The Tecken webapp in the local dev environment is split into two containers:

  • frontend: (localhost:3000) a Javascript proxy that serves up-to-date Javascript and CSS files

  • web: (localhost:8000) the Django webapp

To connect to the webapp in your browser, use http://localhost:3000.

To use a webapp API, use http://localhost:8000.

How to create a superuser account from the command line

You need to create an account in two places: the oidcprovider (our SSO emulation service) and in the Tecken webapp.

# Run these from the host

# This creates an SSO account in the oidcprovider
$ docker compose exec oidcprovider /code/manage.py createuser FAKEUSERNAME FAKEPASSWORD FAKEEMAIL

# This creates a superuser account in the Tecken webapp
$ docker compose run --rm web bash python manage.py superuser FAKEEMAIL

Note

The oidcprovider account will persist until the oidcprovider container is stopped.

How to create an account from the webapp

To log in, do this:

  1. Load http://localhost:3000

  2. Click “Sign In” to start an OpenID Connect session on oidcprovider

  3. Click “Sign up” to create an oidcprovider account:

  • Username: A non-email username, like username

  • Email: Your email address

  • Password: Any password, like password

  1. Click “Authorize” to authorize Tecken to use your oidcprovider account

  2. You are returned to http://localhost:3000. If needed, a parallel Tecken User will be created, with default permissions and identified by email address.

You’ll remain logged in to oidcprovider, and the account will persist until the oidcprovider container is stopped. You can visit http://localhost:8080/account/logout to manually log out.

How to create an API token from the command line

# Run this from the host

$ docker compose run --rm web bash python manage.py createtoken EMAIL TOKEN

Tokens are 32 character hex strings. You can create one in Python:

>>> import uuid
>>> uuid.uuid4().hex
'64cfcc37088e43909168739bc7369197'

Note

Tokens can include an optional hyphen and comment at the end to make it easier to distinguish tokens.

Examples:

# No comment
c7c1f8cab79545b6a06bc4122f0eb3cb

# With comment
c7c1f8cab79545b6a06bc4122f0eb3cb-localdevtoken

How to create a new database migration

The Symbols Service webapp uses Django’s ORM and thus we do database migrations using Django’s migration system.

Do this:

$ make shell
app@xxx:/app$ ./manage.py makemigration --name "BUGID_desc" APP

How to manipulate the local dev environment S3 bucket

We use localstack for S3 emulation.

Use the bin/s3_cli.py script:

$ make shell
app@xxx:/app$ ./bin/s3_cli.py --help
Usage: s3_cli.py [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Local dev environment S3 manipulation script and bargain emporium.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  create        Creates a bucket
  delete        Deletes a bucket
  list_buckets  List S3 buckets
  list_objects  List contents of a bucket

How to manipulate the local dev environment GCS bucket

We use fake-gcs-server for GCS emulation.

Use the gcs-cli script:

$ make shell
app@5a9103973085:/app$ gcs-cli --help
Usage: gcs-cli [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Local dev environment GCS manipulation script

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  create        Creates a bucket
  delete        Deletes a bucket
  list-buckets  List GCS buckets
  list-objects  List contents of a bucket
  upload        Upload files to a bucket

How to access the database

We use postgresql. To open a psql shell, do:

$ make psql
NOTE: Password is 'postgres'.
/usr/bin/docker compose run --rm db psql -h db -U postgres -d tecken
Password for user postgres:
psql (12.7 (Debian 12.7-1.pgdg100+1))
Type "help" for help.

tecken=#

Note that it tells you the password to use.

How to upgrade the Python version

To upgrade Python to a new minor or major version, you need to change the version in these files:

  • .devcontainer/Dockerfile

  • .github/dependabot.yml

  • .readthedocs.yaml

  • docker/Dockerfile

  • docker/images/fakesentry/Dockerfile

  • pyproject.toml

  • tecken/tests/test_sentry.py

Bugs / Issues

All bugs are tracked in Bugzilla.

Write up a new bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Tecken&component=General

If you want to do work for which there is no bug, it’s best to write up a bug first. Maybe the ensuing conversation can save you the time and trouble of making changes!

Code workflow

Bugs

Either write up a bug or find a bug to work on.

Assign the bug to yourself.

Work out any questions about the problem, the approach to fix it, and any additional details by posting comments in the bug.

Pull requests

Pull request summary should indicate the bug the pull request addresses. Use a hyphen between “bug” and the bug ID(s). For example:

bug-nnnnnnn: removed frog from tree class

For multiple bugs fixed within a single pull request, list the bugs out individually. For example:

bug-nnnnnnn, bug-nnnnnnn: removed frog from tree class

Pull request descriptions should cover at least some of the following:

  1. what is the issue the pull request is addressing?

  2. why does this pull request fix the issue?

  3. how should a reviewer review the pull request?

  4. what did you do to test the changes?

  5. any steps-to-reproduce for the reviewer to use to test the changes

After creating a pull request, attach the pull request to the relevant bugs.

We use the rob-bugson Firefox addon. If the pull request has “bug-nnnnnnn: …” or “bug-nnnnnnn, bug-nnnnnnn: …” in the summary, then rob-bugson will see that and create a “Attach this PR to bug …” link.

Then ask someone to review the pull request. If you don’t know who to ask, look at other pull requests to see who’s currently reviewing things.

Code reviews

Pull requests should be reviewed before merging.

Style nits should be covered by linting as much as possible.

Code reviews should review the changes in the context of the rest of the system.

Landing code

Once the code has been reviewed and all tasks in CI pass, the pull request author should merge the code.

This makes it easier for the author to coordinate landing the changes with other things that need to happen like landing changes in another repository, data migrations, configuration changes, and so on.

We use “Rebase and merge” in GitHub.

Conventions

Python code conventions

All Python code files should have an MPL v2 header at the top:

# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

We use ruff to reformat Python code and we use prettier to reformat JS code.

To lint all the code, do:

$ make lint

To reformat all the code, do:

$ make lintfix

HTML/CSS conventions

2-space indentation.

Javascript code conventions

2-space indentation.

All JavaScript code files should have an MPL v2 header at the top:

/*
 * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
 */

Git conventions

First line is a summary of the commit. It should start with the bug number. Use a hyphen between “bug” and the bug ID(s). For example:

bug-nnnnnnn: summary

For multiple bugs fixed within a single commit, list the bugs out individually. For example:

bug-nnnnnnn, bug-nnnnnnn: summary

After that, the commit should explain why the changes are being made and any notes that future readers should know for context or be aware of.

Managing dependencies

Python dependencies

Python dependencies are maintained in the requirements.in file and “compiled” with hashes and dependencies of dependencies in the requirements.txt file.

To add a new dependency, add it to the file and then do:

$ make rebuildreqs

Then rebuild your docker environment:

$ make build

If there are problems, it’ll tell you.

In some cases, you might want to update the primary and all the secondary dependencies. To do this, run:

$ make updatereqs

JavaScript dependencies (Symbols Service)

Tecken uses yarn for JavaScript dependencies. Use the yarn installed in the Docker frontend container:

$ docker compose run frontend bash

# display packages that can be upgraded
node@xxx:/app$ yarn outdated

# example of upgrading an existing package
node@xxx:/app$ yarn upgrade date-fns --latest

# example of adding a new package
node@xxx:/app$ yarn add some-new-package

When you’re done, you have to rebuild the frontend Docker container:

$ docker compose build frontend

Your change should result in changes to frontend/package.json and frontend/yarn.lock which needs to both be checked in and committed.

Documentation

Documentation for Tecken is build with Sphinx and is available on ReadTheDocs.

To build the docs, do:

$ make docs

Then view docs/_build/html/index.html in your browser.

Testing

Python tests for Symbols Service webapp

Tecken uses the pytest test framework.

To run the tests, do:

$ make test

Tests for the Symbols Service webapp go in tecken/tests/.

If you need to run specific tests or pass in different arguments, you can use the testshell:

$ make testshell
app@xxx:/app$ pytest

<pytest output>

app@xxx:/app$ cd tecken/
app@xxx:/app/tecken$ pytest tests/test_download.py

<pytest output>

JavaScript tests

The Tecken webapp is built using JavaScript and React. There are no tests for this code and it has to be tested manually. You can do something like this:

  1. go to Tecken webapp website

  2. wait for front page to load

  3. click on “Home”

  4. click on “Help”

  5. click on “Log in” and log in

  6. click on “Home”

  7. click on “User management”

  8. click on “API tokens”

  9. click on “Uploads”

  10. click on “Help”

  11. click on “Sign out”

Smoke tests

Smoke tests are located in the repository in smoketests/. See the README.rst there for usage.

Smoke tests can be run against any running environment:

  • local: local dev environment

  • stage: the stage server environment

  • prod: the prod server environment–will not run destructive tests

Smoke tests can help verify that upload API and download API work. They periodically need to be updated as symbols files expire out of the systems.

Load tests

At various points, we’ve done some load testing of the system. The scripts are located in:

https://github.com/mozilla-services/tecken-loadtests/

They’re generally unmaintained, but can be a good starting point for a new load testing effort.

How to do local Upload by Download URL

Note

This may need to be updated.

When doing local development and you want to work on doing Symbol Upload by HTTP posting the URL, you have a choice. Either put files somewhere on a public network, or serve the locally.

Before we start doing local Upload By Download URL, you need to make your instance less secure since you’ll be using URLs like http://localhost:9090. Add DJANGO_ALLOW_UPLOAD_BY_ANY_DOMAIN=True to your .env file.

To serve them locally, first start the dev server (make run). Then you need to start a bash shell in the current running web container:

$ make shell

Now, you need some .zip files in the root of the project since it’s mounted and can be seen by the containers. Once they’re there, start a simple Python server:

$ ls -lh *.zip
$ python -m http.server --bind 0.0.0.0 9090

Now, you can send these in with tecken-loadtest like this:

$ export AUTH_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
$ python upload-symbol-zips.py http://localhost:8000 -t 160 --download-url=http://localhost:9090/symbols.zip

This way you’ll have 3 terminals. 2 bash terminals inside the container and one outside in the tecken-loadtests directory on your host.

Debugging a “broken” Redis

Note

This may need to be updated.

By default, we have our Redis Cache configured to swallow all exceptions (…and just log them). This is useful because the Redis Cache is only supposed to make things faster. It shouldn’t block things from working even if that comes at a price of working slower.

To simulate that Redis is “struggling” you can use the CLIENT PAUSE command. For example:

$ make redis-cache-cli
redis-cache:6379> client pause 30000
OK

Now, for 30 seconds (30,000 milliseconds) all attempts to talk to Redis Cache is going to cause a redis.exceptions.TimeoutError: Timeout reading from socket exception which gets swallowed and logged. But you should be able to use the service fully.

For example, all things related to authentication, such as your session cookie should continue to work because we use the cached_db backend in settings.SESSION_ENGINE. It just means we have to rely on PostgreSQL to verify the session cookie value on each and every request.

Auth debugging

Note

This may need to be updated.

Cache/cookies issues

Anyone can test caching and cookies by going to https://symbols.mozilla.org/__auth_debug__. That’s a good first debugging step for helping users figure out auth problems.

Auth0 issues

Symbols Service uses Mozilla SSO. Anyone can log in, but by default accounts don’t have special permissions to anything.

A potential pattern is that a user logs in with their work email (e.g. example@mozilla.com), gets permissions to create API tokens, the uses the API tokens in a script and later leaves the company whose email she used she can no longer sign in to again. If this happens her API token should cease to work, because it was created based on the understanding that she was an employee and has access to the email address.

This is why there’s a piece of middleware that periodically checks that users who once authenticated with Auth0 still is there and not blocked.

Being “blocked” in Auth0 is what happens, “internally”, if a user is removed from LDAP/Workday and Auth0 is informed. There could be other reasons why a user is blocked in Auth0. Whatever the reasons, users who are blocked immediately become inactive and logged out if they’re logged in.

If it was an error, the user can try to log in again and if that works, the user becomes active again.

This check is done (at the time of writing) max. every 24 hours. Meaning, if you managed to sign or use an API token, you have 24 hours to use this cookie/API token till your user account is checked again in Auth0. To override this interval change the environment variable DJANGO_NOT_BLOCKED_IN_AUTH0_INTERVAL_SECONDS.

Testing if a user is blocked

To check if a user is blocked, use the is-blocked-in-auth0 which is development tool shortcut for what the middleware does:

$ docker compose run web python manage.py is-blocked-in-auth0 me@example.com