Start the API Service in tox venv failed

[yuntongjin]

in doc/source/dev-environment.rst,
   # Start the API Service.
   (venv) $ searchlight-api
will failed with:
ERROR: Unable to locate paste config file for searchlight-api.

[Steve McLellan (sjmc7)]

As a temporary measure you can copy searchlight-api-paste.ini from etc/ in the source root. I'll try and take a look into how it's supposed to get into the tox venv.

[Travis Tripp (travis-tripp)]

When you ran this step: did you do it with venv activated?

python setup.py develop

e.g.
source .tox/venv/bin/activate

[Sasikiran (sasikiran-vaddi)]

Is it mandatory for searchlight to have openstack components installed.

I tried to run the index operation got connection errors.
$> searchlight-manage index sync

2015-11-16 15:19:46.613 9967 ERROR elasticsearch NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f2d28cf58d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused

I am not sure whether I'm missing something or (https://github.com/openstack/searchlight/blob/master/doc/source/dev-environment.rst) the following link has inadequate information.

[Steve McLellan (sjmc7)]

@Saskiran - it sounds like you don't have elasticsearch running. You can install it either from your operating system's package management or by downloading it and running it manually. I would recommend using a version pre-2.0.0. If it is running, you may need to set the 'hosts' parameter in the [elasticsearch] config group. Feel free to ask in #openstack-searchlight if you need help.

[Travis Tripp (travis-tripp)]

@Saskiran, are you still working on this? I think you just need to make the following change in a patch. I just treid it and it worked for me.That worked for me.

index 81a5516..5233d73 100644
--- a/doc/source/dev-environment.rst
+++ b/doc/source/dev-environment.rst
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ communicating with your server).
    $ source .tox/venv/bin/activate

    # Start the API Service.
- (venv) $ searchlight-api
+ (venv) $ searchlight-api --config-file etc/searchlight.conf

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/274966

[Travis Tripp (travis-tripp)]

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/274966/

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/274966
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/searchlight/commit/?id=d5c559b010288f9702117c992703592f76903ca1
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit d5c559b010288f9702117c992703592f76903ca1
Author: Travis Tripp <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 1 18:50:10 2016 -0700

    Add config-file to dev env setup instructions

    The dev env setup instructions are missing the --config-file option.

    Change-Id: I5b02760580142c9d2afbf81aaf7125036d9fc2c8
    Closes-Bug: 1479190

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/searchlight 0.2.0.0b3 development milestone.