Kustvakt is a user and policy management component for KorAP (Diewald et al., 2016). It manages user access to resources (i.e. corpus data) typically bound with some licensing schemes. The licensing schemes of IDS resources provided through KorAP (DeReKo) are very complex involving the user access location and purposes (Kupietz & Lüngen, 2014). To manage user access to resources, Kustvakt performs query rewriting with document restrictions (Bański et al., 2014).

Kustvakt acts as a middleware in KorAP binding other components, such as Koral a query serializer and Krill a search component, together. As the KorAP's API provider, it provides services, e.g. searching and retrieving annotation data of a match/hit, that can be used by a KorAP client, e.g. Kalamar (a KorAP web user interface) and KorapSRU (the CLARIN FCS endpoint for KorAP).

• Kustvakt lite version

  provides basic services including search, match info, statistic and annotation services, without user and policy management.

• Kustvakt full version

  provides user and policy management and extended services, in addition to the basic services. This version requires a database (Sqlite is provided) and an LDAP system (UnboundID InMemoryDirectoryServer is provided) for user authentication.

Recent changes on the project are described in the change logs (Changes files).

Clone the latest version of Kustvakt

git clone [email protected]:KorAP/Kustvakt.git

Since Kustvakt requires Krill and Koral, please install Krill and Koral in your maven local repository according to the required versions specified in Kustvakt/full/pom.xml. For packaging Kustvakt, change into the Kustvakt folder.

Packaging Kustvakt full version

cd full
mvn clean package

Packaging Kustvakt lite version

cd full
mvn package -P lite

The jar file is located in the target/ folder.

java -jar target/Kustvakt-full-[version].jar    

will run Kustvakt full version with the example kustvakt.conf configuration file included. See Customizing kustvakt configuration.

Kustvakt full version requires a Krill index and LDAP configuration. By default, Kustvakt uses the sample-index located in the parent directory of the jar file and the embedded LDAP server example.

Kustvakt can be run using an external Spring XML configuration file, e.g. using test-config-icc.xml located in data folder:

cd target/
java -jar Kustvakt-full-[version].jar --spring-config data/test-config-icc.xml 

An OAuth2 super client is required to be able to use web services that require user authentication. Kustvakt can generate a super client automatically. See Setting Initial Super Client for User Authentication.

All web-services including their usage examples are described in the wiki.

Some request examples:

• search

curl 'http://localhost:8089/api/v1.0/search?q=Wasser&ql=poliqarp'

• search public metadata

curl 'http://localhost:8089/api/v1.0/search?q=Wasser&ql=poliqarp&fields=textSigle,title,availablility&access-rewrite-disabled=true'

• match info

curl 'http://localhost:8089/api/v1.0/corpus/GOE/AGA/01784/p4145-4146?foundry=opennlp'

Kustvakt server can be shut down by sending a POST request with a shutdown token. When Kustvakt server is started, a shutdown token is automatically generated and written to a shutdownToken file with the following format:

token=[shutdown-token]

A shutdown request can be sent as follows.

curl -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" 
"http://localhost:8089/shutdown" -d @shutdownToken  

Copy the default Kustvakt configuration file (e.g. full/src/main/resources/kustvakt.conf or lite/src/main/resources/kustvakt-lite.conf), to the same folder as the Kustvakt jar files (/target). Please do not change the name of the configuration file.

Set krill.indexDir in the configuration file to the location of your Krill index (relative path to the jar). In Kustvakt's root directory, there is a sample index, e.g.

krill.indexDir = ../../sample-index

server.port = 8089
server.host = localhost

The following properties define the default foundries used for specific layers. For instance in a rewrite, a default foundry may be added to a Koral query missing a foundry.

default.foundry.partOfSpeech = tt
default.foundry.lemma = tt
default.foundry.orthography = opennlp
default.foundry.dependency = malt
default.foundry.constituent = corenlp
default.foundry.morphology = marmot
default.foundry.surface = base

Advanced setup such as LDAP configurations, setting a test environment, database properties and mail configurations for email notifications, are described in the wiki.

Kustvakt is published under the BSD-2 License. It is developed as part of KorAP, the Corpus Analysis Platform at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), member of the Leibniz Association.

Contributions to Kustvakt are very welcome!

Ideally, any contributions should be committed via KorAP Gerrit server to facilitate code reviewing (see Gerrit Code Review - A Quick Introduction). However, we are also happy to accept comments and pull requests via GitHub.

Please note that unless you explicitly state otherwise any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion into Kustvakt shall – as Kustvakt itself – be under the BSD-2 License.

Diewald, Nils/Hanl, Michael/Margaretha, Eliza/Bingel, Joachim/Kupietz, Marc/Bański, Piotr/Witt, Andreas (2016): KorAP Architecture – Diving in the Deep Sea of Corpus Data. In: Calzolari, Nicoletta/Choukri, Khalid/Declerck, Thierry/Goggi, Sara/Grobelnik, Marko/Maegaard, Bente/Mariani, Joseph/Mazo, Helene/Moreno, Asuncion/Odijk, Jan/Piperidis, Stelios (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portorož, Slovenia. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016. S. 3586-3591.

Bański, Piotr/Diewald, Nils/Hanl, Michael/Kupietz, Marc/Witt, Andreas (2014): Access Control by Query Rewriting. The Case of KorAP. In: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2014. S. 3817-3822.

Kupietz, Marc/Lüngen, Harald (2014): Recent Developments in DeReKo. In: Calzolari, Nicoletta et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14). Reykjavik: ELRA, 2378-2385.