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PEP: 503
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Title: Simple Repository API
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io>
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BDFL-Delegate: Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io>
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Discussions-To: distutils-sig@python.org
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Status: Draft
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Type: Informational
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Content-Type: text/x-rst
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Created: 04-Sep-2015
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Post-History: 04-Sep-2015
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Abstract
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========
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There are many implementations of a Python package repository and many tools
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that consume them. Of these, the canonical implementation that defines what
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the "simple" repository API looks like is the implementation that powers
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PyPI. This document will specify that API, documenting what the correct
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behavior for any implementation of the simple repository API.
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Specification
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=============
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A repository that implements the simple API is defined by its base url, this is
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the top level URL that all additional URLS are below. The API is named the
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"simple" repository due to fact that PyPI's base URL is
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``https://pypi.python.org/simple/``.
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.. note:: All subsequent URLs in this document will be relative to this base
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URL (so given PyPI's URL, an URL of ``/foo/`` would be
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``https://pypi.python.org/simple/foo/``.
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Within a repository, the root URL (``/``) **MUST** be a valid HTML5 page with a
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single anchor element per project in the repository. The text of the anchor tag
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**MUST** be the normalized name of the project and the href attribute **MUST**
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link to the URL for that particular project. As an example::
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<body>
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<a href="/frob/">frob</a>
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<a href="/spamspamspam/">spamspamspam</a>
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</body>
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</html>
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Below the root URL is another URL for each individual project contained within
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a repository. The format of this URL is ``/<project>/`` where the ``<project>``
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is replaced by the normalized name for that project, so a project named
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"HolyGrail" would have an URL like ``/holygrail/``. This URL must respond with
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a valid HTML5 page with a single anchor element per file for the project. The
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text of the anchor tag **MUST** be the filename of the file and the href
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attribute **MUST** be an URL that links to the location of the file for
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download. The URL **SHOULD** include a hash in the form of an URL fragment with
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the following syntax: ``#<hashname>=<hashvalue>``, where ``<hashname>`` is the
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lowercase name of the hash function (such as ``sha256``) and ``<hashvalue>`` is
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the hex encoded digest.
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In addition to the above, the following constraints are placed on the API:
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* All URLs which respond with an HTML5 page **MUST** end with a ``/`` and the
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repository **SHOULD** redirect the URLs without a ``/`` to add a ``/`` to the
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end.
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* URLs may be either absolute or relative as long as they point to the correct
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location.
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* There is no constraints on where the files must be hosted relative to the
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repository.
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* There may be any other HTML elements on the API pages as long as the required
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anchor elements exist.
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* Repositories **MAY** redirect unnormalized URLs to the cannonical normalized
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URL (e.g. ``/Foobar/`` may redirect to ``/foobar/``), however clients
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**MUST NOT** rely on this redirection and **MUST** request the normalized
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URL.
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* Repositories **SHOULD** choose a hash function from one of the ones
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guaranteed to be available via the ``hashlib`` module in the Python standard
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library (currently ``md5``, ``sha1``, ``sha224``, ``sha256``, ``sha384``,
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``sha512``). The current recommendation is to use ``sha256``.
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* If there is a GPG signature for a particular distribution file it **MUST**
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live alongside that file with the same name with a ``.asc`` appended to it.
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So if the file ``/packages/HolyGrail-1.0.tar.gz`` existed and had an
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associated signature, the signature would be located at
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``/packages/HolyGrail-1.0.tar.gz.asc``.
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Normalized Names
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----------------
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This PEP references the concept of a "normalized" project name. As per PEP 426
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the only valid characters in a name are the ASCII alphabet, ASCII numbers,
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``.``, ``-``, and ``_``. The name should be lowercased with all runs of the
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characters ``.``, ``-``, or ``_`` replaced with a single ``-`` character. This
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can be implemented in Python with the ``re`` module::
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import re
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def normalize(name):
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return re.sub(r"[-_.]+", "-", name).lower()
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Copyright
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=========
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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