Configuration

Various modules (sapphire.api, sapphire.esd, and sapphire.publicdb) connect to the HiSPARC Public Database to download data, metadata, configurations, etc. Normally you will want to use the official HiSPARC Public Database, which is hosted at https://data.hisparc.nl. However, during development, tests or other occasions you may want to use a different server, for example when running a local version of the publicdb. In that case you can overwrite the base url used. This overwrite is done using an environment variable: PUBLICDB_BASE. This can be easily set when starting your Python environment, for example:

$ PUBLICDB_BASE=http://localhost:8000 python

Or while already running Python:

from os import environ
environ['PUBLICDB_BASE'] = 'http://localhost:8000'