Integration of Ralph Inventory Extension

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Dear Ralph team,

I am a member of the team developing the inventory and stocktaking extension for Ralph as the diploma project “Capentory”, see our initial forum post https://ralph.discourse.group/t/ralph-inventory-extension/131.

The intent of this post is to inform you that we are on the verge of having a finished product and making last preparations for a pull-request.
There are a couple of things, concerning the server-changes, we need to know beforehand:

  1. There are 2 packages/apps we have developed: “stocktaking” and “capentory”. The latter contains models and other functionality related only to our institution, i.e. only the asset-models we need in our school. Question being: Do you want this package included with the pull-request or only the stocktaking-feature?

  2. We have created a “demo” implementation of the views required to perform stocktaking via our mobile App for the model “BackOfficeAsset”. We will include this in the pull-request for your convenience. Just keep this in mind when merging: When implementing your own stocktaking-views, please review the “stocktake_client_views.py” file for any methods you want to override and customize.

With this in mind, I am looking forward to hearing from you and am always open for any questions.

Best regards

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I think the smaller and more “generic” changes, the better.

Before this patch land, I think we need to discuss:

  • Is it possible to play around with the demo app somewhere? If not, how can we install this today ?

  • Maintainership - I think this part of code should have dedicated maintainers, which knows this piece of code. Are you open to support this?

  • I’m thinking about making this package optional. Then, we can have both worlds - Ralph core and “community-plugins” under new “ralph-community” repository. We could use DJANGO_INSTALLED_APPS to enable and disable it. Do you think it’s possible? We could than make stocktaking optional with something like apt-get install ralph-stocktaking

Optional packages

We already use separate Ralph packages for internal (Allegro) tools hooked under “setup.py” entry points.

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Once again, thank you for great job pushing Ralph community forward!

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Thanks for the reply!

  1. Take a look at your Email. You can try the App today :wink:
  2. We do not plan on continuing develepment on our software after our project is finished. However, we might still push patches once in a while (but definitely to a much lesser extent than now)
  3. Our solution is just a package, so you can just remove/add it to INSTALLED_APPS, so that is definitely possible. (Please keep in mind that the bug I posted few weeks ago needs to be fixed in order for our solution to be integrable (Ralph bug))
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New Update: You can install our App directly from the Play Store. The public IP Adress has changed (Take another look at your Emails).

PS: Do you have any other channel that we can use to faster communicate? (e.g. Discord)

Bye :innocent:

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Congrats! Can you paste link here?

Yes, you can join our chat here: https://gitter.im/allegro/ralph

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Thanks :innocent:

The link (you can also search for “capentory” in Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.capentory.capentory_client&gl=AT

After installing the app you will need to change some settings (namely the Server-IP-Adress & Port, I included both in my last email).

PS: Our entire team has received an A for our diploma thesis :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: