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Week 10

(August,03,2023)

Updates:​

  • Throughout this week, my primary focus remained on enhancing the ScanCode agent.
  • A significant concern with the agent is its current practice of invoking ScanCode through the command line interface (CLI) for each individual file, leading to a file-by-file scanning process. Unfortunately, this resulted in a considerable amount of time being spent on bootstrapping ScanCode for each file.
  • As a solution to this inefficiency, I explored a different approach. I attempted to leverage the ScanCode API to scan all files in a single call, consolidating the results into a unified location, potentially a JSON file.
  • The intended workflow involves storing the outcomes from the API call in a centralized JSON file. Subsequently, the data extracted from the JSON results will be efficiently populated into the database for each file during the upload process.

Conclusion and further plans:​

  • In the coming weeks, I will try to implement the aforementioned workflow in FOSSology.