Installing Amaxa

Installation

Amaxa supports Python 3.6.1 or greater.

Prebuilt, single-binary versions of Amaxa (created using PyInstaller) are available in current releases for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows 10.

To install Amaxa using pip, execute

$ pip install amaxa

Make sure to invoke within a Python 3.6+ virtual environment or specify Python 3.6 or greater as required by your operating system.

Amaxa is operating system-agnostic but is primarily tested on Linux.

Development

To start working with Amaxa in a virtual environment, clone the Git repository. Amaxa’s repository is on GitHub, and is mirrored on GitLab.

Then, create a virtual environment for Amaxa and install:

$ cd amaxa
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install poetry
$ poetry install

Amaxa uses poetry to managed dependencies and tox with pytest to execute test runs.

If a valid Salesforce access token and instance URL are present in the environment variables INSTANCE_URL and ACCESS_TOKEN, integration and end-to-end tests will be run against that Salesforce org; otherwise only unit tests are run. Note that integration tests are destructive and require data setup before running. Run integration tests only in a Salesforce DX scratch org.

Two scripts are included under assets/scripts to assist in integration testing. Execute prep-scratch-org.sh to create a scratch org and make it available to Amaxa integration tests. Execute get-auth-params.sh if you wish to manually create an org and then expose it to Amaxa; the org’s alias must be amaxa.