New feature: set HOME to pywps process tempdir (geopython#220)

* added sethomedir flag Conflicts: pywps/configuration.py * fixed debug message
danielkadner · Feb 18, 2017 · 2009761 · 2009761
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diff --git a/pywps/app/Process.py b/pywps/app/Process.py
@@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ def _store_process(self, stored, wps_request, wps_response):
     def _run_process(self, wps_request, wps_response):
         try:
             self._set_grass()
+            # if required set HOME to the current working directory.
+            if config.get_config_value('server', 'sethomedir') is True:
+                os.environ['HOME'] = self.workdir
+                LOGGER.info('Setting HOME to current working directory: %s', os.environ['HOME'])
+            LOGGER.debug('ProcessID=%s, HOME=%s', self.uuid, os.environ.get('HOME'))
             wps_response.update_status('PyWPS Process started', 0)
             wps_response = self.handler(wps_request, wps_response)
 

diff --git a/pywps/configuration.py b/pywps/configuration.py
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ def load_configuration(cfgfiles=None):
     CONFIG.set('server', 'outputpath', outputpath)
     CONFIG.set('server', 'workdir', tempfile.gettempdir())
     CONFIG.set('server', 'parallelprocesses', '2')
+    # If this flag is enabled it will set the HOME environment
+    # for each process to its current workdir (a temp folder).
+    CONFIG.set('server', 'sethomedir', 'false')
 
     CONFIG.add_section('logging')
     CONFIG.set('logging', 'file', '')