Change the way to launch the web-app (or update the doc)

[Philippe-Neveux]

Hello the community !

I'm using aequitas for the first time today and i was facing with some issues for launching the audit web-app locally.

To make the command python -m serve work, I had to clone the repository and add the following shell environment variable in my terminal HOST=localhost because it used in the server.py script.

I don't know if it was the best way to do it but finally it worked. So i was wondering if it would be possible to update the documentation or to simplify the process for the audit web-app

Thanks !

[jesteria]

Sure. Are you just looking for a way to invoke that script from the pip install … version of the package then?

Like…?

$ pip install aequitas
…

$ aequitas-serve

(If so, I imagine that wouldn't be too difficult to add….)

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As for the HOST variable you can always:

$ HOST=localhost serve.py

But sure this could also be a proper command argument 😄

[Philippe-Neveux]

Yes exactly ! And maybe add a default value for the host set to localhost 😃

[jesteria]

Sure. Sounds like an enhancement to me.

[jesteria]

Technical discussion

1. A CLI command could be added to the Python distribution, no- or little-different from the existing aequitas-report.
   • The existing serve.py could be included in the distribution via the setup.py scripts parameter [docs].
   • …And/or a Python package function could be added to the aequitas_webapp package for CLI command invocation (via the console_scripts parameter) and optionally via straight Python.
   • …And/or the aequitas_webapp package could be given a __main__.py such that it is invokable by python -m aequitas_webapp (without downloading the source). Dealer's choice?
2. The serve.py script and/or derivative can read the environment and/or an argument. There's argparse. There's sys.argv. Etc.

   host = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else os.getenv('HOST', default='localhost')

[yajush1998]

Hello the community !

I'm using aequitas for the first time today and i was facing with some issues for launching the audit web-app locally.

To make the command python -m serve work, I had to clone the repository and add the following shell environment variable in my terminal HOST=localhost because it used in the server.py script.

I don't know if it was the best way to do it but finally it worked. So i was wondering if it would be possible to update the documentation or to simplify the process for the audit web-app

Thanks !

hey please, can u help me I am also facing the same problem you can contact me at yajushpratapsingh@gmail.com or my Whatsapp no, please I really need to solve this asap .

[yajush1998]

 pip install aequitas
``` where we have to add these things can u explain it in details,I am too facing problem in hosting Aequitas locally, please help me in using it