Add dummy data for development

README.md

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ This is a Django 4.2 application backed by PostgreSQL and running on Python 3.x.
 
 ### Ubuntu instructions
 
+#### Install Dependencies / Configure Environment
+
 First, prepare your development environment by installing pip, virtualenv, and postgresql-server-dev-X.Y.
 
 ```bash
@@ -45,12 +47,24 @@ be provided.
 ./manage.py migrate
 ```
 
-You'll need either a database dump of the actual server's data or else to create a superuser:
+#### Load data
+For a quick start, you can load some dummy data into the database. Here's how you do that:
+
+```
+./manage.py loaddata auth_data.json
+./manage.py loaddata commitfest_data.json
+```
+
+If you do this, the admin username and password are `admin` and `admin`.
+
+On the other hand, if you'd like to start from scratch instead, you can run the following command to create
+a super user:
 
 ```bash
 ./manage.py createsuperuser
 ```
 
+#### Start application
 Finally, you're ready to start the application:
 
 ```bash
@@ -69,3 +83,11 @@ codestyle.
 ln -s ../../tools/githook/pre-commit .git/hooks/
 
 ```
+
+If you'd like to regenerate the database dump files, you can run the following commands:
+```
+./manage.py dumpdata auth  --format=json --indent=4 --exclude=auth.permission > pgcommitfest/commitfest/fixtures/auth_data.json
+./manage.py dumpdata commitfest  --format=json --indent=4 > pgcommitfest/commitfest/fixtures/commitfest_data.json
+```
+
+If you want to reload data from dump file, you can run `drop owned by postgres;` in the `pgcommitfest` database first.

pgcommitfest/commitfest/ajax.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import requests
 import json
 import textwrap
+import re
 
 from pgcommitfest.auth import user_search
 from .models import CommitFest, Patch, MailThread, MailThreadAttachment
@@ -23,7 +24,26 @@ class Http503(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+def mockArchivesAPI(path):
+    with open(settings.MOCK_ARCHIVE_DATA, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
+        data = json.load(file)
+        for message in data:
+            message['atts'] = []
+
+    message_pattern = re.compile(r"^/message-id\.json/(?P<message_id>[^/]+)$")
+
+    message_match = message_pattern.match(path)
+    if message_match:
+        message_id = message_match.group("message_id")
+        return [message for message in data if message['msgid'] == message_id]
+    else:
+        return data
+
+
 def _archivesAPI(suburl, params=None):
+    if getattr(settings, 'MOCK_ARCHIVES', False) and getattr(settings, 'MOCK_ARCHIVE_DATA'):
+        return mockArchivesAPI(suburl)
+
     try:
         resp = requests.get(
             "http{0}://{1}:{2}{3}".format(settings.ARCHIVES_PORT == 443 and 's' or '',