Welcome to davix documentation

Davix aims to make the task of managing files over HTTP-based protocols simple. It is being developed by the IT-SDC-ID section at CERN, and while the project’s purpose is its use on the CERN grid, the functionality offered is generic.

There is support for the following authentication methods:

• x509 user certificate

• VOMS proxy

• RFC proxy with VOMS extensions support

• username / password

• AWS S3 compatible services

• Microsoft Azure compatible services

Getting started

• Installation
  • Scientific Linux/CentOS7
  • Ubuntu
  • Compiling from source
• Compiling
  • Install build dependencies
  • How to build
  • Build options
  • Generating the documentation

Guides

• Usage in ROOT
  • Installation from EPEL repositories
  • Installation from source
  • Usage
  • Debugging
  • Configure TDavixFile
  • Running HTTP ROOT TDavixFile Benchmarks
• Cloud support
  • Amazon S3
  • Microsoft Azure
• Advanced functionalities
  • Multi-range queries
  • Simulation of a multi-range query

Examples

• Using the command line tools
  • davix-get
  • davix-put
  • davix-ls
  • davix-mkdir
  • davix-rm
  • davix-mv
  • davix-http
  • davix-cp
• Using libdavix
  • File interface
  • POSIX interface
  • HTTP requests
  • Error reporting and exceptions

API Reference

• File-based API
• POSIX-based API
• HTTP-based API

About us

• How to get in touch with us
  • e-mail
  • Github
  • Jira
• Authors

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page