Bringing WireViz to the Web

[amotl]

Dear Daniel, Dear WireViz community,

first of all, we would like to salute you for conceiving this excellent program. It has been brought to our attention just recently - thanks, @msweef.

Within the patches and discussions around #55 and #68, @formatc1702, @slightlynybbled, @elbosso and @Tyler-Ward have been talking about the baseline work needed to bring the functionality of WireViz into a graphical user interface and a (HTTP) service.

While @slightlynybbled went down the classic GUI route on behalf of wireviz-gui [1], @elbosso looked into the HTTP API aspects and implemented a Flask wrapper around WireViz on behalf of server.py [2]. On top of that, he also conceived plantumlinterfaceproxy [3] in order to integrate TeX and WireViz into GitLab through PlantUML. We summarized those efforts within [4]. Cheers!

Now, we started to build upon the work by @elbosso in order to put that into a standalone package wireviz-web [5] and hope that you will appreciate our efforts on that. While we published an initial version 0.0.0 on PyPI containing mostly the unmodified code some days ago, we have been able to put in some more hours in order to refactor and modernize it and just published version 0.1.0.

In order to extend the credits to people who contributed to this package, @dyno and @ryardley must not be missed as they provided a Python implementation for encoding and decoding the PlantUML Text Encoding format, which @elbosso already has been able to build upon within his initial implementation.

So, all of this is really a community effort and our humble role was just about putting some bits and pieces together and packaging it. Attaching to WireViz being released under an GPLv3 license, we just went ahead and put an AGPLv3 license on WireViz-Web. At the same time, we are humbly asking for any objections from the upstream authors on this matter.

Please let us know about anything what comes to your mind about this.

Keep up the spirit and with kind regards, Andreas.

[1] https://github.com/slightlynybbled/wireviz-gui [2] https://github.com/elbosso/WireViz/blob/master/src/app/server.py [3] https://github.com/elbosso/plantumlinterfaceproxy [4] https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/bringing-wireviz-to-the-web/3700 [5] https://github.com/daq-tools/wireviz-web

[17o2]

Thanks for the heads up on this project! Sounds interesting. Once I have a bit more time, I'll look into it in more detail, and will link to it in the readme. I'm a bit low on resources at the moment :-) I shall get back to you!

[amotl]

Hi again,

after you released WireViz 0.3 the other day, we just submitted https://github.com/daq-tools/wireviz-web/pull/3, in order to bring WireViz-Web up to speed. The new version has just been released on PyPI as wireviz-web==0.3.0 [1].

Thank you for your excellent work on WireViz.

With kind regards, Andreas.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/wireviz-web