# The National Archives: Find Case Law
This repository is part of the [Find Case Law](https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/) project at [The National Archives](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/). For more information on the project, check [the documentation](https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-find-caselaw-docs).
# MarkLogic API Client
[](https://pypi.org/project/ds-caselaw-marklogic-api-client/)
This is an API Client for connecting to Marklogic for The National Archive's Caselaw site.
This package is published on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ds-caselaw-marklogic-api-client/
## Usage
You can find documentation of the client class and available methods [here](https://nationalarchives.github.io/ds-caselaw-custom-api-client).
## Testing
To run the test suite:
```bash
poetry install
poetry run pytest
```
There are also some smoketests in `smoketests.py` which run against a MarkLogic database but do not run in CI currently.
To run them locally you can set the environment variables as detailed in the file in a `.env` file or just hardcode them in, as long as you don't commit those changes to the repo.
And then run
```bash
poetry run pytest smoketest.py
```
To start with when running this, we have been choosing to point to the staging MarkLogic to have more confidence that the setup is a good representation of production as opposed to a local MarkLogic instance but that can work too.
Eventually we will make it so that we run these tests in CI and probably point to a dedicated testing MarkLogic instance so we don't get conflicts with people using staging for manual testing.
## Making changes
When making a change, update the [changelog](CHANGELOG.md) using the
[Keep a Changelog 1.0.0](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) format. Pull
requests should not be merged before any relevant updates are made.
## Releasing
When making a new release, update the [changelog](CHANGELOG.md) in the release
pull request.
The package will **only** be released to PyPI if the branch is tagged. A merge
to main alone will **not** trigger a release to PyPI.
To create a release:
0. Update the version number in `pyproject.toml`
1. Create a branch `release/v{major}.{minor}.{patch}`
2. Update `CHANGELOG.md` for the release
3. Commit and push
4. Open a PR from that branch to main
5. Get approval on the PR
6. Merge the PR to main and push
7. Tag the merge commit on `main` with `v{major}.{minor}.{patch}` and push the tag
8. Create a release in [Github releases](https://github.com/nationalarchives/ds-caselaw-custom-api-client/releases)
using the created tag
If the release fails to push to PyPI, you can delete the tag with `git pull`, `git push --delete origin v1.2.3` and try again.
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