[SoC] GSoC 2019 - Final Report - Porting MapMint from Python 2.x to 3.x

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Fenil, thanks for your final report.

Regards
Helmut on behalf of the OSGeo GSoC admins

Fenil Mehta <fenilgmehta at gmail.com> schrieb am So., 25. Aug. 2019, 14:54:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for this wonderful opportunity. It's been a great experience
> working with the OSGeo community.
>
> Following is the final report.
>
>
> *1. TITLE*MapMint - porting from Python 2.x to Python 3.x
>
>
> *2. SOFTWARE COMMUNITY*OSGeo, The ZOO-Project, MapMint
>
>
> *3. ABSTRACT*- MapMint is a web-based service oriented Geographic
> Information System(GIS), which is designed to facilitate deployment of
> Spatial Data Infrastructure(SDI). It is designed to help its users publish
> quality web maps in a quick and easy manner using the web interface which
> is highly customizable. MapMint also implements various geospatial and web
> standards providing interoperability with other applications as well.
> - I intend to port the MapMint source code to Python 3.x and reformat the
> code to improve the readability of the program and ease maintenance.
>
>
> *4. MOTIVATION*Advantages of Python 3.x over Python 2.x was the main
> motivation behind this project. Some of the major advantages are:
> - Community support is better with Python 3.
> - Each newer version of Python continues to get faster with the runtime.
> - There is better unicode support in Python 3.
> - Python 2 is not traditionally a typed language. But Python v3.5 supports
> typing, that overcomes the development conflicts when working with new
> pieces of code.
>
>
> *5. STATE BEFORE GSoC 2019*- The MapMint project was running on Python
> 2.x which is an older version of the Python language whose support will
> soon end in 2020 and MapMint is unable to take advantage of the
> improvements in Python 3.x
>
>
> *6. STATE AFTER GSoC 2019*- I have ported the MapMint project to Python
> 3.x and made the necessary changes in the ansible scripts which are used to
> install MapMint.
> - Requirements
>     1. Python v3.6.7 or higher
>     2. Ansible v2.5.1 or higher
>     3. Apache Server
> - Tested on OSGeo Live 12.0
>
>
> *7. WORK TO BE DONE*- What I see from modifying and testing mapmint
> working on Python 2.x and Python 3.x is that the login service is not
> working as expected. Some amount of testing and debugging is to be done.
> However, I believe that only change of syntax from Python 2 to 3 shall not
> break the core services. So, all the core services should be working
> perfectly as they were working before porting.
>
>
> *8. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES*- Static type checking can be added to improve
> data validation and improve the quality of the code.
> - Python documentation can be added quickly with the help of an Integrated
> Development Environment(IDE).
>
>
> *9. LINKS** Final Report -
> https://github.com/fenilgmehta/mapmint/wiki/GSoC-2019---Final-Report
> * GitHub wiki page -
> https://github.com/fenilgmehta/mapmint/wiki/GSoC-2019---porting-python-2.7.x-to-3.x
> * OSGeo wiki page -
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GSoC_2019_Porting_MapMint_from_Python2_to_Python3
> * Installation instructions and images -
> https://github.com/fenilgmehta/mapmint/tree/master/examples
> * Google Drive public folder -
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jmyJ6tHW7i3Zaquk2g5Yqv4BNUfvHOcW
>
> Thanks for all the support.
>
> Best regards,
> Fenil Mehta
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