Using a local python package in pip_parse()

[adityapande-1995]

Is it possible to use a local python package in a pip_parse() rule ?

My workspace is structured as follows :

|-- WORKSPACE
|-- BUILD.bzl
|-- requirements.txt
|-- my_custom_python_package
     |-- __init__.py
     |-- setup.py
|-- app.py

The workspace file contains the pip_parse() rule, and is used as a dependency to app.py in BUILD.bzl, using the requirement('my_custom_python_package') macro.

I keep getting an error saying The repository '@pip_deps_my_custom_python_package' could not be resolved: Repository '@pip_deps_my_custom_python_package' is not defined and referenced by '//:my_app'

Is there a correct guide on how to use a local package using pip parse ? I'd be great to have an example to show that. Any help would be appreciated :)

[meteorcloudy]

/cc @rickeylev

[rickeylev]

pip parse doesn't really support local packages. It's not really needed -- just depend on the targets directly instead of going through packaging step.

[adityapande-1995]

My apologies for not clarifying this in the original question. My package/target contains an entry_point in its setup.py:

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    name = "roslaunch_util",
    entry_points={
        'launch.frontend.launch_extension': [
            'roslaunch_util = roslaunch_util',
        ],
    }
)

I might be wrong here, but the way to get this entry point registered and trigger setuptools is by doing a pip install . on the package (outside of bazel). What the best way to invoke setuptools and get the entry point registered in bazel ?

[aignas]

Please see the documentation of how to use py_console_script_binary - that should help you define a BUILD.bazel target that you can then 'bazel run'.