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Upgrading OMERO.web

This document highlights steps that may need to be taken by developers when upgrading OMERO.web to ensure plugins or other customizations continue to function as expected.

OMERO.web 5.18.0

Connector storage in Django sessions

To prepare for upcoming Django upgrades, this upgrade changes how Connector objects are stored to a "persist and rehydration" strategy similar to how the Django authentication middleware handles model objects.

Any downstream implementation which was directly assigning and/or retrieving request.session["connector"] will need to update their codebase:

  • all usages of request.session.get("connector") should be replaced by Connector.from_session(request)
  • all usages of request.session["connector"] = connector should be replaced by connector.to_session(request)

More information at ome#435

Third-party JavaScript libraries

If your plugin or customizations depend on any of the following libraries, please make sure to check for breaking API or CSS changes.

Library Previous Version Upgraded to Link
d3 3.5.17 7.7.0 https://d3js.org/
hammer 2.0.2 2.0.8 https://hammerjs.github.io/
jquery 3.5.1 3.6.2 https://jquery.com/download/
jquery-ui 1.12.1 1.13.2 https://jqueryui.com/download/
jquery.jstree 3.3.10 3.3.12 https://www.jstree.com/
jquery.mousewheel 3.0.6 3.1.12
raphael 2.1.0 2.3.0 https://dmitrybaranovskiy.github.io/raphael/
underscore 1.13.1 1.13.6 https://underscorejs.org/

More information at ome#433

OMERO.web 5.14.0 plugin migration guide

Introduction

Django 3.2.x is now the major version that OMERO.web depends upon. For system administrators, the installation of omero-web==5.14.0 will also upgrade Django and Django-cors-headers as required. You will also need to upgrade your omero-web plugin apps to versions compatible with Django 3.2. Popular apps such as omero-iviewer, omero-figure, omero-parade, omero-mapr and omero-webtagging have been updated accordingly.

You many need to uninstall other Django apps such as https://pypi.org/project/django-cookies-samesite/ which is not needed for Django 3.1+.

The remainder of this guide is for omero-web plugin developers.

All the way back to 5.6.0, this was previously Django 1.11.x. This Django version conservatism has helped us establish a very fertile, stable environment for plugin developers. However, while the usage of the plethora of Django functionality available in core OMERO.web is quite limited, upgrading your plugin to support this new version requires careful consideration.

Background

All plugin developers are encouraged to review the release notes, in particular the Backwards incompatible and Features deprecated for all major Django versions since 1.11.x to ensure they can be compliant with the new APIs. They are as follows:

Affected areas of core OMERO.web

Django 2.0.x / 2.1.x

  • django.core.urlresolvers package (deprecated since 1.10) has been replaced with django.urls
  • Removal of case insensitive URL matching (deprecated since 1.11)
  • Refactor use of QuerySet semantics in ModelChoiceField subclasses

Django 3.0.x

  • django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags package (deprecated since 2.1) has been replaced with django.templatetags.static
  • Update to the new field ordering style for forms

Django 3.1.x

  • Update to the new internal settings cleansing API
  • Use the new package (django.core.validators) for empty value definitions

Backwards compatibility

There is only one major backwards incompatible change affecting OMERO.web 5.14.0 and that is the removal of support for case insensitive URL matching. You can recognize your use of this feature by examining your urls.py packages for the use of (?i) in your matching regular expressions. If your plugin makes use of case insensitivity in URL matching, which has been deprecated since Django 1.11, we recommend that you first consider if you really need this feature. If you do you can consult the Django 1.11 release notes for some suggested solutions on mitigation.

Apart from the aforementioned major issue, the vast majority of plugin developers will be able to remain compatible with pre and post 5.14.0 OMERO.web just by switching their use of the django.core.urlresolvers package to django.urls. This new package was present in Django 1.11.

If you are making subclasses of the OMERO.web form ModelChoiceField subclasses or making subclasses of your own you will likely not be able to remain backwards compatible. The same goes for if you have subclassed any OMERO.web Django forms or have created any of our own. This is especially true if you are relying on a specific form field ordering.

Finally, some of the internal Django APIs have changed substantially either in semantics or in package location. You will not likely be able to remain backwards compatible if you rely on these APIs.

Migration examples

django.core.urlresolvers package

-    from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
+    from django.urls import reverse

Removal of case insensitive URL matching

-    url(r"^(?i)webgateway/", include("omeroweb.webgateway.urls")),
+    url(r"^webgateway/", include("omeroweb.webgateway.urls")),

django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags package

-    from django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles import static
+    from django.templatetags.static import static

Update to the new field ordering style for forms

-    self.fields.keyOrder = ["server", "username", "password"]
+    self.field_order = ["server", "username", "password"]

Use the new package for empty value definitions

-    from django.forms.fields import ChoiceField, EMPTY_VALUES
+    from django.forms.fields import ChoiceField

-    from django.core.validators import validate_email
+    from django.core.validators import validate_email, EMPTY_VALUES