sda download

Archival notice

️ This repository is no longer maintained. The code has been integrated and it is further developed at: https://github.com/neicnordic/sensitive-data-archive

SDA Download

sda-download is a go implementation of the Data Out API. The API Reference has example requests and responses.

Deployment

Recommended provisioning method for production is:

• on a kubernetes cluster using the helm chart;

For local development/testing see instructions in dev_utils folder. There is an README file in the dev_utils folder with sections for running the pipeline locally using Docker Compose.

• First run
• Production like run
• Manual execution

API Components

Component	Role
middleware	Performs access token verification and validation
sda	Constructs the main API endpoints for the NeIC SDA Data Out API.

Internal Components

Component	Role
config	Package for managing configuration.
database	Provides functionalities for using the database, as well as high level functions for working with the SDA-DB.
storage	Provides interface for storage areas such as a regular file system (POSIX) or as a S3 object store.
session	DatasetCache stores the dataset permissions and information whether this information has already been checked or not. This information can then be used to skip the time-costly authentication middleware

Package Components

Component	Role
auth	Auth pkg is used by the middleware to parse OIDC Details and extract GA4GH Visas from a GA4GH Passport
request	This pkg Stores a HTTP client, so that it doesn't need to be initialised on every request.