carp_study_generator 1.5.0

Utilities for managing CARP Mobile Sensing studies, including generating and uploading a study protocol, informed consent, translations, and messages.

CARP Study Generator Utility Package

This utility package helps generate the configuration files needed for a CARP Mobile Sensing study, and uploading this to the CARP web server.

Configuration and Setup

To use the study generator, do the following in you app:

1. Include carp_study_generator and test as part of the dev_dependencies in the pubspec.yaml file.
2. Copy the folder carp to the root of you project.
3. Configure carpspec.yaml, and the json files protocol.json, consent.json, and the message and language json files (en.json, etc.).

Configuration of carpspec.yaml

The carpspec.yaml can be configured using the following properties for:

• the CARP Server
• the study ID
• the protocol
• the informed consent
• messages
• language localizations

server:
  uri: https://cans.cachet.dk
  client_id: carp
  client_secret: carp
  username: [e-mail]
  password: pw

# basic study ids
study:
  study_id: 01cf04a7-d154-40f0-9a75-ab759cf74eb3

# the location of the protocol to be uploaded
protocol:
  path: carp/resources/protocol.json

# the location of the informed consent to be uploaded
consent:
  path: carp/resources/consent.json

# configuration of the messages to be uploaded
message:
  # the location of the messages to be uploaded
  path: carp/messages/
  # list the messages to be uploaded 
  # add each message as a <name>.json file in the [path] folder
  messages: 
    - 1
    - 2

localization:
  path: carp/lang/
  # list the locales supported 
  # for each locale, a json file in the 'lang' folder must be added
  locales:
    - en
    - da

Note that the carpspec.yaml file contains username and password in clear text and hence SHOULD NOT BE ADDED TO VERSION CONTOL - add it to .gitignore.

File Structure

All files used for creating and uploading configurations to CARP is stored in the carp folder in the root of your (app) project file. The name of the json files to upload is specified in the carpspec.yaml file (see above). The default file structure is:

File	Description
resources/protocol.json	JSON definition of your SmartphoneStudyProtocol.
resources/consent.json	JSON definition of your RPOrderedTask with the informed consent to show to the user.
lang/<language>.json	The JSON language file for each language supported of the form <language>.json.
messages/<name>.json	The name of each JSON message file to upload.

Please ignore the test scripts in the carp folder (these are used to execute the commands).

Usage

Each command is run like this:

flutter test carp/<command>

The available commands are:

  help                   Prints this help message.
  dry-run                 Makes a dry run testing access to the CARP server the correctness of the json resources.
  create                 Create a study protocol based on a json file and uploads it to the CARP server.
  update                 Update an existing study protocol as a new version.
  consent                Create an informed consent based on a json file and uploads it to the CARP server.
  localization           Upload the localization files to the CARP server.
  message                Upload the list of messages to the CARP server.
  message-delete-all     Delete all messages on the CARP server.

Before uploading a any json files to CARP, run the dry-run command first. It will check and output a list like the following:

[✓] CARP App             CarpApp - name: CARP server at 'https://cans.cachet.dk/dev', uri: https://cans.cachet.dk/dev, studyDeploymentId: null, studyId: 33441683-bbec-4c85-95de-b27aec09afce
[!] CARP Server          CarpServiceException: 401 Unauthorized -  Full authentication is required to access this resource - 
[✓] Protocol path        carp/resources/protocol.json
[✓] Protocol parse       name: CAMS App Study No. 2
[✓] Consent path         carp/resources/consent.json
[✓] Consent              identifier: consentTaskID
[✓] Locale - en          carp/lang/en.json
[✓] Locale - da          carp/lang/da.json
[✓] Message - 1          carp/messages/1.json
[✓] Message - 2          carp/messages/2.json
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