.gitignore

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ __pycache__/
 dist/
 build/
 src/caosdb/version.py
+src/linkahead/version.py
 
 # documentation
 _apidoc

.gitlab-ci.yml

 #
-# This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
+# This file is a part of the LinkAhead Project.
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
 # Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ code_style:
     - make style
   allow_failure: true
 
-# pylint tests for pycaosdb
+# pylint tests for pylinkahead
 pylint:
   tags: [ docker ]
   stage: linting
@@ -54,18 +54,25 @@ pylint:
   allow_failure: true
 
 # run unit tests
-unittest_py3.8:
+unittest_py3.7:
   tags: [ docker ]
   stage: test
   needs: [ ]
-  image: python:3.8
+  image: python:3.7
   script: &python_test_script
     # Python docker has problems with tox and pip so use plain pytest here
-    - touch ~/.pycaosdb.ini
-    - pip install nose pytest pytest-cov python-dateutil jsonschema==4.0.1
+    - touch ~/.pylinkahead.ini
+    - pip install nose pytest pytest-cov python-dateutil jsonschema>=4.4.0
     - pip install .
     - python -m pytest unittests
 
+unittest_py3.8:
+  tags: [ docker ]
+  stage: test
+  needs: [ ]
+  image: python:3.8
+  script: *python_test_script
+
 # This needs to be changed once Python 3.9 isn't the standard Python in Debian
 # anymore.
 unittest_py3.9:
@@ -75,7 +82,7 @@ unittest_py3.9:
   script:
     # verify that this actually is Python 3.9
     - python3 -c "import sys; assert sys.version.startswith('3.9')"
-    - touch ~/.pycaosdb.ini
+    - touch ~/.pylinkahead.ini
     - make unittest
 
 
@@ -86,6 +93,13 @@ unittest_py3.10:
   image: python:3.10
   script: *python_test_script
 
+unittest_py3.11:
+  tags: [ docker ]
+  stage: test
+  needs: [ ]
+  image: python:3.11
+  script: *python_test_script
+
 # Trigger building of server image and integration tests
 trigger_build:
   stage: deploy

.gitlab/issue_templates/Default.md

+## Summary
+
+*Please give a short summary of what the issue is.*
+
+## Expected Behavior
+
+*What did you expect how the software should behave?*
+
+## Actual Behavior
+
+*What did the software actually do?*
+
+## Steps to Reproduce the Problem
+
+*Please describe, step by step, how others can reproduce the problem.  Please try these steps for yourself on a clean system.*
+
+1.
+2.
+3.
+
+## Specifications
+
+- Version: *Which version of this software?*
+- Platform: *Which operating system, which other relevant software versions?*
+
+## Possible fixes
+
+*Do you have ideas how the issue can be resolved?*

.gitlab/merge_request_templates/Default.md

+# Summary
+
+*Insert a meaningful description for this merge request here:  What is the new/changed behavior?
+Which bug has been fixed? Are there related issues?*
+
+
+# Focus
+
+*Point the reviewer to the core of the code change. Where should they start reading? What should
+they focus on (e.g. security, performance, maintainability, user-friendliness, compliance with the
+specs, finding more corner cases, concrete questions)?*
+
+
+# Test Environment
+
+*How to set up a test environment for manual testing?*
+
+
+# Check List for the Author
+
+Please, prepare your MR for a review. Be sure to write a summary and a focus and create gitlab
+comments for the reviewer. They should guide the reviewer through the changes, explain your changes
+and also point out open questions. For further good practices have a look at [our review
+guidelines](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb/-/blob/dev/REVIEW_GUIDELINES.md)
+
+- [ ] All automated tests pass
+- [ ] Reference related issues
+- [ ] Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (or not necessary)
+- [ ] Up-to-date JSON schema (or not necessary)
+- [ ] Appropriate user and developer documentation (or not necessary)
+  - Update / write published documentation (`make doc`).
+  - How do I use the software?  Assume "stupid" users.
+  - How do I develop or debug the software?  Assume novice developers.
+- [ ] Annotations in code (Gitlab comments)
+  - Intent of new code
+  - Problems with old code
+  - Why this implementation?
+
+
+# Check List for the Reviewer
+
+- [ ] I understand the intent of this MR
+- [ ] All automated tests pass
+- [ ] Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (or not necessary)
+- [ ] Appropriate user and developer documentation (or not necessary), also in published
+      documentation.
+- [ ] The test environment setup works and the intended behavior is reproducible in the test
+  environment
+- [ ] In-code documentation and comments are up-to-date.
+- [ ] Check: Are there specifications? Are they satisfied?
+
+For further good practices have a look at [our review guidelines](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb/-/blob/dev/REVIEW_GUIDELINES.md).
+
+
+/assign me
+/target_branch dev

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,18 +5,17 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## [Unreleased] ##
+## [Unreleased] - Date
 
 ### Added ###
 
-* `apiutils.EntityMergeConflictError` class for unresesolvable merge conflicts
-  when merging two entities
+* `apiutils.merge_entities` now has a `merge_id_with_resolved_entity` keyword
+  which allows to identify property values with each other in case that one is
+  an id and the other is an Entity with this id. Default is ``False``, so no
+  change to the default behavior.
 
 ### Changed ###
 
-* `apiutils.merge_entities` now raises an `EntityMergeConflictError` in case of
-  unresolvable merge conflicts.
-
 ### Deprecated ###
 
 ### Removed ###
@@ -27,7 +26,112 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Documentation ###
 
-* [Fixed](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb-pylib/-/issues/79) `{action}_entity_permissions` help line.
+## [0.13.2] - 2023-12-15
+
+### Fixed ###
+
+* [#113](https://gitlab.com/linkahead/linkahead-pylib/-/issues/113) Container could fail to delete when there were reference properties.
+* HTTP status 431 (Headers too long) now also raises an URI too long exception.
+
+## [0.13.1] - 2023-10-11 ##
+
+### Fixed ###
+
+* no Error when no configuration file is used
+  [Issue](https://gitlab.com/linkahead/linkahead-pylib/-/issues/107)
+
+## [0.13.0] - 2023-10-10 ##
+
+### Added ###
+
+* New `page_length` parameter for `caosdb.execute_query` and
+  `caosdb.Query.execute`. See docstrings for more details.
+* `Entity.remove_value_from_property` function that removes a given value from a
+  property and optionally removes the property if it is empty afterwards.
+
+### Changed ###
+
+* `_Messages` is now `Messages` and inherits from list instead of dict
+* `Message.__init__` signature changed and `type` defaults to "Info" now.
+* `Message.__eq__` changed. Equality is equality of `type`, `code`, and
+  `description` now.
+* Rename from CaosDB to LinkAhead.  For proper migration, follow the instructions
+  in `migration_to_linkahead.md` and check the documentation at [docs.indiscale.com](https://docs.indiscale.com/caosdb-pylib/README_SETUP.html#migration).
+
+### Deprecated ###
+
+* The API of Messages has been simplified and some ways to interact with
+  messages have been deprecated. Warnings are raised correspondingly.
+* `Message.get_code`. Use the `code` property instead.
+
+### Fixed ###
+
+- Detection for cyclic references when converting entites using the high level API.
+
+## [0.12.0] - 2023-06-02 ##
+
+### Added ###
+
+- Added location argument to  `src/caosdb/utils/checkFileSystemConsistency.py`
+- Entity getters: `get_entity_by_<name/id/path>`
+- Cached versions of entity getters and of `execute_query` (`cached_query`)
+
+### Deprecated ###
+
+- getOriginUrlIn, getDiffIn, getBranchIn, getCommitIn (formerly apiutils) have been
+  moved to caosdb.utils.git_utils
+
+### Fixed ###
+
+- Fixed `src/caosdb/utils/checkFileSystemConsistency.py`
+
+### Documentation ###
+
+* [#83](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb-pylib/-/issues/83) - Improved
+  documentation on adding REFERENCE properties, both in the docstring of
+  `Entity.add_property` and in the data-insertion tutorial.
+
+## [0.11.2] - 2023-03-14 ##
+
+### Fixed ###
+- root logger is no longer used to create warnings. Fixes undesired output in
+  stderr
+
+## [0.11.1] - 2023-03-07 ##
+(Florian Spreckelsen)
+
+### Changed ###
+
+* Renamed `caosdb.common.models._Parents` to `caosdb.common.models._ParentList`.
+
+### Fixed ###
+
+* [caosdb-pylib#90](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb-pylib/-/issues/90): `Entity.get_parents_recursively()` did not work for unretrieved parents.
+
+## [0.11.0] - 2023-01-19 ##
+(Florian Spreckelsen)
+
+### Added ###
+
+* `apiutils.EntityMergeConflictError` class for unresesolvable merge conflicts
+  when merging two entities
+* Re-introduced support for Python 3.7
+
+### Changed ###
+
+* `apiutils.merge_entities` now raises an `EntityMergeConflictError` in case of
+  unresolvable merge conflicts.
+
+### Fixed ###
+
+* [#82](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb-pylib/-/issues/82) Merging an entity
+  with properties with missing datatype leads to Exception - The correct
+  exception is raised in case of a missing LIST datatype.
+
+### Documentation ###
+
+* [Fixed](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb-pylib/-/issues/79)
+  `{action}_entity_permissions` help line.
 
 ## [0.10.0] - 2022-11-14
 (Florian Spreckelsen)

CITATION.cff

+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+  - family-names: Fitschen
+    given-names: Timm
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4022-432X
+  - family-names: Schlemmer
+    given-names: Alexander
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4124-9649
+  - family-names: Hornung
+    given-names: Daniel
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-6375
+  - family-names: tom Wörden
+    given-names: Henrik
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-578X
+  - family-names: Parlitz
+    given-names: Ulrich
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3058-1435
+  - family-names: Luther
+    given-names: Stefan
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7214-8125
+title: CaosDB - Pylib
+version: 0.13.2
+doi: 10.3390/data4020083
+date-released: 2023-10-11

DEPENDENCIES.md

-* caosdb-server >= 0.8.0
+* caosdb-server >= 0.12.0
 * Python >= 3.8
 * pip >= 20.0.2
 

Makefile

 # ** header v3.0
-# This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
+# This file is a part of the LinkAhead Project.
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2020 IndiScale GmbH <info@indiscale.com>
 # Copyright (C) 2020 Daniel Hornung <d.hornung@indiscale.com>
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ style:
 .PHONY: style
 
 lint:
-	pylint --unsafe-load-any-extension=y -d all -e E,F src/caosdb/common
+	pylint --unsafe-load-any-extension=y -d all -e E,F src/linkahead/common
 .PHONY: lint
 
 unittest:

README.md

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ the preferred way is also a merge request as describe above (the documentation r
 However, you can also create an issue for it. 
 * You can also contact us at **info (AT) caosdb.org** and join the
   CaosDB community on
-  [#caosdb:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/!unwwlTfOznjEnMMXxf:matrix.org).
+  [#linkahead:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/!unwwlTfOznjEnMMXxf:matrix.org).
 
 ## License
 

README_SETUP.md

@@ -128,3 +128,6 @@ Build documentation in `build/` with `make doc`.
 
 ### Troubleshooting ###
 If the client is to be executed directly from the `/src` folder, an initial `.\setup.py install --user` must be called.
+
+## Migration ##
+TODO

RELEASE_GUIDELINES.md

 # Release Guidelines for the CaosDB Python Client Library
 
 This document specifies release guidelines in addition to the general release
-guidelines of the CaosDB Project
+guidelines of the LinkAhead Project
 ([RELEASE_GUIDELINES.md](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb/blob/dev/RELEASE_GUIDELINES.md))
 
 ## General Prerequisites
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ guidelines of the CaosDB Project
    - `version` variables in `src/doc/conf.py`
    - Version on [setup.py](./setup.py): Check the `MAJOR`, `MINOR`, `MICRO`, `PRE` variables and set
      `ISRELEASED` to `True`. Use the possibility to issue pre-release versions for testing.
+   - `CITATION.cff` (update version and date)
 
 5. Merge the release branch into the main branch.
 

create_slim_linkahead_wrapper.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# encoding: utf-8
+#
+# ** header v3.0
+# This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2021 Indiscale GmbH <info@indiscale.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2021 Henrik tom Wörden <h.tomwoerden@indiscale.com>
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+# License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# ** end header
+#
+import os
+base_root = "src/linkahead/"
+
+initcontent = """
+from {module} import *
+from warnings import warn
+
+warn(("CaosDB was renamed to LinkAhead. Please import this library as `import {module}`. Using the"
+      " old name, starting with caosdb, is deprecated."), DeprecationWarning)
+"""
+
+for root, dirs, files in os.walk(base_root, topdown=False):
+    if root.endswith("__pycache__"):
+        continue
+    cdir = os.path.join("src/caosdb", root[len(base_root):])
+    os.makedirs(cdir, exist_ok=True)
+    for fi in files:
+        if not fi.endswith(".py"):
+            continue
+        path = os.path.join(cdir, fi)
+        with open(path, 'w') as cur:
+            if fi == "__init__.py":
+                cur.write(initcontent.format(module=".".join(
+                    os.path.join(root, fi[:-3]).split('/')[1:-1])))
+            else:
+                cur.write(initcontent.format(module=".".join(
+                    os.path.join(root, fi[:-3]).split('/')[1:])))

examples/pycaosdb_example.py

 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """A small example to get started with caosdb-pylib.
 
-Make sure that a `pycaosdb.ini` is readable at one of the expected locations.
+Make sure that a `pylinkahead.ini` is readable at one of the expected locations.
 """
 
 import random

examples/pycaosdb.ini → examples/pylinkahead.ini

 # To be found be the caosdb package, the INI file must be located either in
-# - $CWD/pycaosdb.ini
-# - $HOME/.pycaosdb.ini
+# - $CWD/pylinkahead.ini
+# - $HOME/.pylinkahead.ini
 # - the location given in the env variable PYCAOSDBINI
 
 [Connection]

examples/server_side_script.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # ** header v3.0
-# This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
+# This file is a part of the LinkAhead Project.
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
 # Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen

examples/set_permissions.py

 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 # ** header v3.0
-# This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
+# This file is a part of the LinkAhead Project.
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2019 IndiScale GmbH
 # Copyright (c) 2019 Daniel Hornung <d.hornung@indiscale.com>
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 As a result, only a specific user or group may access it.
 
-This script assumes that the user specified in the pycaosdb.ini
+This script assumes that the user specified in the pylinkahead.ini
 configuration can create new entities.
 
 """

how-to-merge-after-rename.txt

+git merge linkahead-rename-step-1
+# resolve potential conflicts and commit
+rm -rf src/linkahead
+git mv src/caosdb/ src/linkahead
+rm -rf src/caosdb
+python3 create_slim_linkahead_wrapper.py
+git add src
+git ci -m "MAINT: rename caosdb to linkahead (module)"
+git merge linkahead-rename-step-2
+# resolve potential conflicts and commit
+git merge dev

release.sh

 #!/bin/bash
 rm -rf dist/ build/ .eggs/
 python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
-python -m twine upload -s dist/*
+export PKGNAME=caosdb
+python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+python -m twine upload dist/*

setup.py

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 #
-"""caosdb"""
+"""linkahead"""
 import os
+import re
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
@@ -47,13 +48,13 @@ from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 ISRELEASED = False
 MAJOR = 0
-MINOR = 10
-MICRO = 1
+MINOR = 13
+MICRO = 3
 # Do not tag as pre-release until this commit
 # https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/515
 # has made it into a release. Probably we should wait for pypa/packaging>=21.4
 # https://github.com/pypa/packaging/releases
-PRE = "" # "dev"  # e.g. rc0, alpha.1, 0.beta-23
+PRE = ""  # "dev"  # e.g. rc0, alpha.1, 0.beta-23
 
 if PRE:
     VERSION = "{}.{}.{}-{}".format(MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, PRE)
@@ -91,25 +92,26 @@ def git_version():
 
 def get_version_info():
     # Adding the git rev number needs to be done inside write_version_py(),
-    # otherwise the import of caosdb.version messes up the build under
+    # otherwise the import of linkahead.version messes up the build under
     # Python 3.
     FULLVERSION = VERSION
 
+    # Magic which is only really needed in the pipelines. Therefore: a lot of dark pipeline magic.
+    GIT_REVISION = "Unknown"
     if os.path.exists('.git'):
         GIT_REVISION = git_version()
-    elif os.path.exists('caosdb_pylib_commit'):
-        with open('caosdb_pylib_commit', 'r') as f:
+    elif os.path.exists('linkahead_pylib_commit'):
+        with open('linkahead_pylib_commit', 'r') as f:
             GIT_REVISION = f.read().strip()
-    elif os.path.exists('src/caosdb/version.py'):
+    elif os.path.exists('src/linkahead/version.py'):
         # must be a source distribution, use existing version file
-        try:
-            from caosdb.version import git_revision as GIT_REVISION
-        except ImportError:
-            raise ImportError("Unable to import git_revision. Try removing "
-                              "src/caosdb/version.py and the build directory "
-                              "before building.")
-    else:
-        GIT_REVISION = "Unknown"
+        with open('src/linkahead/version.py') as fi:
+            rev_pattern = re.compile(r"^git_revision = '(?P<rev>.*)'$")
+            for line in fi.readlines():
+                match = rev_pattern.match(line)
+                if match is not None:
+                    GIT_REVISION = match.group('rev')
+                    break
 
     if not ISRELEASED:
         FULLVERSION += '.dev0+' + GIT_REVISION[:7]
@@ -117,9 +119,9 @@ def get_version_info():
     return FULLVERSION, GIT_REVISION
 
 
-def write_version_py(filename='src/caosdb/version.py'):
+def write_version_py(filename='src/linkahead/version.py'):
     cnt = """
-# THIS FILE IS GENERATED FROM caosdb SETUP.PY
+# THIS FILE IS GENERATED FROM linkahead SETUP.PY
 #
 short_version = '%(version)s'
 version = '%(version)s'
@@ -153,15 +155,21 @@ def setup_package():
     # Rewrite the version file everytime
     write_version_py()
 
+    if 'PKGNAME' in os.environ and os.environ['PKGNAME'] == 'caosdb':
+        pname = 'caosdb'
+        pdesc = 'Deprecated! Please install linkahead.'
+    else:
+        pname = 'linkahead'
+        pdesc = 'Python Interface for LinkAhead'
     metadata = dict(
-        name='caosdb',
+        name=pname,
         version=get_version_info()[0],
-        description='Python Interface for CaosDB',
+        description=pdesc,
         long_description=long_description,
         long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
         author='Timm Fitschen',
         author_email='t.fitschen@indiscale.com',
-        url='https://www.caosdb.org',
+        url='https://www.linkahead.org',
         license="AGPLv3+",
         classifiers=[
             "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
@@ -171,23 +179,26 @@ def setup_package():
             "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis",
         ],
         packages=find_packages('src'),
-        python_requires='>=3.8',
+        python_requires='>=3.7',
         package_dir={'': 'src'},
         install_requires=['lxml>=4.6.3',
                           "requests[socks]>=2.26",
                           "python-dateutil>=2.8.2",
                           'PyYAML>=5.4.1',
                           'future',
-                         ],
+                          ],
         extras_require={'keyring': ['keyring>=13.0.0'],
                         'jsonschema': ['jsonschema>=4.4.0']},
         setup_requires=["pytest-runner>=2.0,<3dev"],
         tests_require=["pytest", "pytest-cov", "coverage>=4.4.2",
                        "jsonschema>=4.4.0"],
         package_data={
-            'caosdb': ['cert/indiscale.ca.crt', 'schema-pycaosdb-ini.yml'],
+            'linkahead': ['cert/indiscale.ca.crt', 'schema-pycaosdb-ini.yml'],
         },
-        scripts=["src/caosdb/utils/caosdb_admin.py"]
+        scripts=[
+            "src/linkahead/utils/caosdb_admin.py",
+            "src/linkahead/utils/linkahead_admin.py"
+        ]
     )
     try:
         setup(**metadata)

src/caosdb/__init__.py

-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
-# ** header v3.0
-# This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
-# Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
-# License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# ** end header
-#
 
-"""CaosDB Python bindings.
+from linkahead import *
+from warnings import warn
 
-Tries to read from the inifile specified in the environment variable `PYCAOSDBINI` or alternatively
-in `~/.pycaosdb.ini` upon import.  After that, the ini file `pycaosdb.ini` in the current working
-directory will be read additionally, if it exists.
-"""
-
-from os import environ, getcwd
-# Import of the connection function (which is used to connect to the DB):
-from os.path import expanduser, join
-
-# Import of convenience methods:
-import caosdb.apiutils
-from caosdb.common import administration
-from caosdb.common.datatype import (BOOLEAN, DATETIME, DOUBLE, FILE, INTEGER,
-                                    LIST, REFERENCE, TEXT)
-from caosdb.common.state import State, Transition
-# Import of the basic  API classes:
-from caosdb.common.models import (ACL, ALL, FIX, NONE, OBLIGATORY, RECOMMENDED,
-                                  SUGGESTED, Container, Entity,
-                                  File, Info, Message, Permissions, Property,
-                                  Query, QueryTemplate, Record, RecordType,
-                                  delete, execute_query, get_global_acl,
-                                  get_known_permissions, raise_errors,
-                                  Directory, Link)
-from caosdb.configuration import _read_config_files, configure, get_config
-from caosdb.connection.connection import configure_connection, get_connection
-from caosdb.exceptions import *
-try:
-    from caosdb.version import version as __version__
-except ModuleNotFoundError:
-    version = "uninstalled"
-    __version__ = version
-
-_read_config_files()
+warn(("CaosDB was renamed to LinkAhead. Please import this library as `import linkahead`. Using the"
+      " old name, starting with caosdb, is deprecated."), DeprecationWarning)