Cemosis Viewer

Kitware has developed for Cemosis a web viewer allowing Cemosis users to visualize Feel++ data type using remote rendering.

The application has been built on top of React and ParaViewWeb open-source libraries.

Instantiation

Compiled version instantiation

Kitware used WebPack in order to build a compiled version of the Cemosis viewer. This version lives in the ./dist directory.

To use to compiled version, you need to:

Load the JavaScript file:

<script src="./Viewer.js"></script>

Instantiate the application into a dedicated container:

<body>
    <div id="root"></div>
    
    <script>
        var containerId = 'root';
        
        var data = '...';
        
        var configuration = {
            ...
        };
        
        var viewer = new Cemosis.Viewer(containerId, data, configuration);
    </script>
</body>

You need to set manually the size of the container as the application has been conceived to use the whole space available:

#root
{
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

Source version instantiation

In case your main application is using React (as a frontend library) and WebPack (for the building process), you can consider to use the Viewer sources instead of the compiled version.

You need to use the Root component defined in ./src/Components/Root/Root.js:

const data = '...';

const configuration = {
    ...
};

<Root
    data={data}
    configuration={configuration}
/>

Parameters

To correctly use the viewer, using the source or the compiled version, you need to properly configure it.

You need to pass to the viewer two parameters:

data:

This parameters is a string describing the data to load. Since this parameter is passed by the client to the server, it need to be not obvious / encrypted.

In the context of this standalone project, a signature mechanism example has been implemented. A signature is generated, passed as data parameter to the viewer, passed to the server by the viewer, decrypted and handled by the server. In order to decrypt the signature, the server need to access a decoder handling it. This decoder is passed to the server starting script using the --data-load-signature-decoder option. Examples of signature encoder and signature decoder live in ./bin.

In a production environment you can use a token mechanism instead. A token is generated, passed as data parameter to the viewer, passed to the server by the viewer, checked and handled by the server.

In both case, the data-load-signature-decoder executable need to return a JSON response of the following format:
```
 {
     value: ..., // boolean describing if decoding succeed
     code: ..., // number describing decoding result
     data: {
         filePath: ..., // string describing the relative path of the file to load, belonging to the data directory
         expirationDate: ..., // string describing when the data load signature expires
     },
 }
```

configuration:

This parameter is a JavaScript object describing the configuration of the viewer:

 {
     connection: {
         sessionManagerURL: ..., // string describing URL to get WebSocket connection to use for the viewer
         timeout: ..., // number describing the accepted time during the API need to respond
     },
     render: {
         quality: {
             still: ..., // number [0:100] describing the JPEG compression percentage image to use for still images
             interactive: ..., // number [0:100] describing the JPEG compression percentage to use for interactive images
         },
         ratio: {
             still: ..., // number [0:1] describing the size ratio of the JPEG image to use for still images
             interactive: ..., // number [0:1] describing the size ratio of the JPEG image to use for interactive images
         },
     },
     statisticsDisplayStatus: ..., // boolean describing if statistics should be displayed
     visualizationParameterEditor: {
         displayStatus: ..., // boolean describing if visualization parameter editor should be displayed
         initialOpenStatus: ..., // boolean describing if visualization parameter editor should be opened at start
         sectionInitialOpenStatus: {
             view: ..., // boolean
             colorMap: ..., // boolean
             camera: ..., // boolean
             legend: ..., // boolean 
             grid: ..., // boolean
             others: ..., // boolean
         },
     },
     screenShot: {
         format: ..., // string ['png, jpg'] describing the file format for screenshot download
         quality: // number [0:1] describing the quality of the screenshot download, only when format is 'jpg'
     },
 }

Setup

Development

In order to develop on the project and test new features, you need two things:

Start server:

To start the server you need to run the following command:
```
node ./bin/startRenderingServer.js --pvpython [PVPYTHON_EXECUTABLE_PATH] --data-directory-path [DATA_DIRECTORY_PATH] --data-load-signature-decoder [DATA_LOAD_SIGNATURE_DECODER_EXECUTABLE_PATH]
```
The following parameters need to be passed:
- PVPYTHON_EXECUTABLE_PATH: Path to pvpython executable, 5.5 version is required
- DATA_DIRECTORY_PATH: Path to the directory used to store the data available to be loaded by the viewer: (.../data)
- DATA_LOAD_SIGNATURE_DECODER_EXECUTABLE_PATH: Path to decodeDataLoadSignature executable: (.../bin/decodeDataLoadSignature.js)
Open the testing web page:

Open the page http://localhost:8080/ with your browser

Production

In order to deploy the viewer in a production environment, you need several things:

A linux distribution, preferably Ubuntu 16.04
An NVIDIA graphic card
Apache as web server
ParaView +5.5, compiled with EGL support

Get dependencies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot
sudo apt-get install nvidia-384 python-dev libx11-dev mesa-common-dev apache2-dev apache2 libapr1-dev apache2-utils
sudo reboot

Install CMake

mkdir /mnt/tmp/cmake
cd /mnt/tmp/cmake
curl -OL https://cmake.org/files/v3.9/cmake-3.9.4-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -zxf cmake-3.9.4-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Get EGL

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/tmp/EGL
sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp/KHR
sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /mnt/tmp
cd /mnt/tmp
mkdir -p egl/EGL
mkdir -p egl/KHR
cd egl/EGL
curl -OL https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/api/EGL/egl.h
curl -OL https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/api/EGL/eglext.h
curl -OL https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/api/EGL/eglplatform.h
cd ../KHR
curl -OL https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/api/KHR/khrplatform.h

Build ParaView with EGL support

mkdir /home/ubuntu/paraview
mkdir -p /mnt/tmp/paraview/build
cd /mnt/tmp/paraview
git clone --recursive https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview.git src
cd build
/mnt/tmp/cmake/cmake-3.9.4-Linux-x86_64/bin/cmake \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/ubuntu/paraview \
    -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF \
    -DPARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI:BOOL=OFF \
    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON:BOOL=ON \
    -DVTK_USE_X:BOOL=OFF \
    -DVTK_OPENGL_HAS_EGL:BOOL=ON \
    -DEGL_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/mnt/tmp/egl \
    -DEGL_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/nvidia-384/libEGL.so \
    -DEGL_opengl_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/nvidia-384/libOpenGL.so \
    ../src/
make -j8
make install

Create a ParaView shared folder

cd /opt/
mkdir Others
cd Others
mkdir logs
mkdir proxy
cd proxy
touch proxy.txt

Clone this project

cd /opt/
mkdir Projects
cd Projects
git clone git@gitlab.kitware.io:Cemosis/Viewer.git

Get WSLink

cd /opt/
mkdir Softwares
cd Softwares
git clone https://github.com/Kitware/wslink.git

Enable required Apache module

sudo a2enmod vhost_alias
sudo a2enmod proxy
sudo a2enmod proxy_http
sudo a2enmod proxy_wstunnel
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2enmod headers

Configure Apache VirtualHosts

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
cp /opt/Projects/documentation/examples/virtualHost.conf viewer.conf
vim viewer.conf # Change parameters following your configuration
a2ensite viewer.conf
service apache2 restart

Configure ParaViewWeb process launcher

cd /opt/
cd Others
cp /opt/Projects/documentation/examples/launcher.json launcher.json
vim launcher.json # Change parameters following your configuration

Start the ParaViewWeb process launcher

/opt/Softwares/ParaView/bin/pvpython /opt/Softwares/wslink/python/src/wslink/launcher.py /opt/Others/launcher.json

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