WAVE - Workflow, Analysis and Visualization Editor

WAVE is the official frontend of VAT. It is a web application that is built via nodejs. You can serve WAVE via any http server, e.g. Apache.

Requirements

You need to have Node.js installed. Verify that you are running at least node v5.x.x and npm 3.x.x. You can check this by running node -v and npm -v in a terminal/console window.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and higher

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

How to build

Production

rm -rf node_modules
npm install
npm run build-production

You can find the output in the dist directory.

Development Live Server

You need to modify the proxy.conf.json file to point to a valid MAPPING instance.

rm -rf node_modules
npm install
npm start

You can visit http://localhost:4200/.

Configuration

Under assets/config.json can be an (optional) configuration file. You can override any of these default settings by specifying them.

MAPPING_URL: '/cgi-bin/mapping_cgi',
    WMS: {
        VERSION: '1.3.0',
        FORMAT: 'image/png',
    },
    WFS: {
        VERSION: '2.0.0',
        FORMAT: 'application/json',
    },
    WCS: {
        SERVICE: 'WCS',
        VERSION: '2.0.1',
    },
    DEBUG_MODE: {
        WAVE: false,
        MAPPING: false,
    },
    USER: {
        GUEST: {
            NAME: 'guest',
            PASSWORD: 'guest',
        },
    },
    DELAYS: {
        LOADING: {
            MIN: 500,
        },
        DEBOUNCE: 400,
        STORAGE_DEBOUNCE: 1500,
        GUEST_LOGIN_HINT: 5000,
    },
    PROJECT: 'GFBio',
    DEFAULTS: {
        PROJECT: {
            NAME: 'Default',
            TIME: '2000-06-06T12:00:00.000Z',
            PROJECTION: 'EPSG:3857',
        },
    },
    MAP: {
        BACKGROUND_LAYER: 'OSM',
        HOSTED_BACKGROUND_SERVICE: '/mapcache/',
        HOSTED_BACKGROUND_LAYER_NAME: 'osm',
        HOSTED_BACKGROUND_SERVICE_VERSION: '1.1.1',
        REFRESH_LAYERS_ON_CHANGE: false,
    },
    GFBIO: {
        LIFERAY_PORTAL_URL: 'https://gfbio-dev1.inf-bb.uni-jena.de/',
    },
    TIME: {
        ALLOW_RANGES: true,
    }

TODO: specify the options of each parameter in a tabular form.