Dear (new) PyWPS Developer,

When submitting Python code to PyWPS SVN repository, please take

care of following rules:

1. Look in the User documentation [http://wald.intevation.org/docman/view.php/22/71/install.pdf], so that you know, how PyWPS is working with custom processes.

2. Add a header section to each file you submit and make sure you include

the copyright. The purpose section is meant to contain a general

overview of the code in the file to assist other programmers that will

need to make changes to your code.

Example (ficticious header for a file called color.c) :

# Author: Your Name

# http://your.site

# Lince:

#

# Your Process Description

# Copyright (C) 2006 Your Name

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

#

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

#

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

The copyright protects your rights according to GNU General Public

License (www.gnu.org).

3. If your process is using some GRASS location, please set the

self.grassLocation to "/var/www/wps/spearfish60/"

4. Do not fear to use "if" condition for os.system calls, so you can

check, if some external program failed or no:

def execute(self):

...

if os.system("g.copy rast1,rast2"):

return "Failed to copy raster maps"

5. For lucidity purposes, you can use self.DataInputs['identifier'] and

self.DataOutputs['identifier'] rather then self.Inputs[0]['value']

6. In PyWPS SVN repository, only representation processes should be

stored. All other processes should go to PyWPS Addons, which is located

at PyWPS Wiki [http://pywps.ominiverdi.org/wiki]