Webpipeline

Webpipeline is the project name for the replacement of the "old cgi-bin" scripts, used for running various lingustic pipelines on a web server, for clients.

The old ones was written in perl, running through cgi-bin, with perl generating simple websites directly for the response. This new one splits up the functionality in an api part, and a front-end part. The API will run on the server, and run the actual pipelines, and provide simple text-based (or some serialization format)-based replies, which the front-end will use.

The API is written in Rust, using the Axum web api framework. The built binary is run through a container which contains the required hfst- and cg3- tools built into it, while getting .hfst's and other language model files mapped into it from volumes.

The front-end is written in Svelte, with SvelteKit, hosted as a standalone node project, run from a simple node-based docker image.

Where

The API is in back/. The main front-end is in client/, while a simpler frontend used only for lemmalist and unknown-lemmas-in-dict is in front/.

How

In each directory, there is a Makefile, to simplify running commands. Running make (or make help) will show a list of commands.

An binary executable filed is required in back/, called back/lookup, for running the lemmalist and unknown-lemmas-in-dict endpoints. It is not under source control.