Welcome to Open Legal Data Platform’s documentation!

OLDP is a web application, written in Python 3.5 and based on the Django web framework, It is used for processing legal text and providing a REST-API and Elasticsearch-based search engine. OLDP is being develop by the non-profit initiative Open Legal Data with the goal of building an Open Data platform for legal documents (mainly court decisions and laws). The platform makes legal information freely accessible for the general public and especially third-party apps.

Contents:

• Getting started
  • Install dependencies
  • Run tests
  • Docker
  • Run server manually
• Testing
  • Fixtures
  • App tests
  • Browser Tests
  • Coverage Integration
• API
  • Authenticating with the API
  • Clients
  • Usage
• API Swagger
  • Clients generator
  • Other notes
• Django - Notes & Useful commands
  • Django basics
  • Custom commands
  • Search
  • Tests
  • Cache
  • Flatpages
  • Sitemaps
  • Generate UML diagram from models
• Development
  • Useful links
  • Write a custom processing step
• Processing
  • Django Admin
  • Available content processors
• Elasticsearch
  • Propagate database entries to search index
  • Queries
  • Load Index Mappings
• Database
  • Schema
  • Set encoding
• Heroku
• Production
  • Deployment
  • Commands
  • Clean up database
  • Helper commands for migration
• Docker
  • Getting started
  • Common issues
  • Additional notes

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page