ResourceSync Simulator

The ResourceSync Simulator simulates a changing Web data source.

It follows a modular architecture comprising a few core building blocks:

• source.py: the changing data source
• inventory.py: a collection of inventory implementations
• publisher.py: a collection of change publishers that send out notifications
• changememory.py: a collection of change memory implementations

Quick start

Make sure Python 2.7.1 is running on your system:

python --version

Install the Tornado web server library:

sudo easy_install tornado

Get the ResourceSync Simulator from Github:

git clone git://github.com/behas/resync-simulator.git

Run the simulation (with the default configuration in /config/default.yaml):

chmod u+x simulate-source
./simulate-source

Terminate simulation when running in infinite mode:

CTRL-C

How to define parameterized use cases

Parameterized Use Cases can be defined by creating a configuration file config/example.yaml and defining a set of parameters:

source:
    name: Morvania National Library
    number_of_resources: 20000
    change_frequency: 0.5
    event_types: [create, update, delete]
    average_payload: 10000
    max_events: -1

Additional inventory, publisher, and change memory implementations can be attached for simulation purposes. For instance, the following configuration attaches the DynamicSiteMapInventory inventory implementation and passes the given parameters (url) to that implementation.

inventory:
    class: DynamicSiteMap
    url: /sitemap.xml

See the examples in the /config directory for further details.

How to implement custom inventories, change memories, publishers, etc.

Implement your code, encapsulated in python objects, directly in the following files:

• inventory.py
• publisher.py
• changememory.py

Run the simulator with your custom implementation by defining the classname in a configuration file and pass it to the main simulator script:

./simulate-source -c config/myusecase.yaml