Python implementation of the SiLA 2 standard

SiLA 2

SiLA 2 is an open communication standard for laboratory automation.

Find the SiLA 2 specification here:

• Part A - Overview, Concepts and Core Specification

• Part B - Mapping Specification

Join the SiLA 2 Slack Community here.

Installation

Run pip install sila2 to install the latest release from PyPI.

Documentation

This section explains how to connect to SiLA Servers and interact with them via SiLA Clients.

• SiLA Client usage
  • Connect to SiLA Servers
  • Interact with a SiLA Server
  • Using auto-generated SiLA Client classes
• SiLA Server development
  • Generate a SiLA Server/Client package
  • Start the generated SiLA Server
  • Implementing SiLA features
  • Add features to existing SiLA Server/Client package
  • Update features of a SiLA Server/Client package
• SiLA Data Types
  • Basic types
  • List
  • Constrained
  • Structure
• API
  • Client API
  • Server API
  • Framework API
• Code Generator
  • Structure of generated packages
  • sila2-codegen new-package: Generate new SiLA 2 Server/Client package
  • sila2-codegen add-features: Add SiLA features to existing package
  • sila2-codegen update: Update existing package
  • sila2-codegen generate-feature-files: Generate feature-specific files without a package

Application Security

To ensure secure development practices, this project integrates automated security scans into the development workflow. Both static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) are used to detect vulnerabilities in custom code and third-party dependencies.

The latest security scan reports are published automatically and updated on a regular basis:

• SCA scan results (updated daily)

  • HTML

• SAST scan results

  • HTML

  • JSON

This project uses the following tools to improve application security:

• OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) for software composition analysis (SCA) of third-party dependencies.

• ruff with bandit rules enabled for lightweight static checks focused on Python code security.

• Semgrep Community Edition for static application security testing (SAST), using both general (e.g. OWASP Top 10, CWE Top 25) and Python-specific security rules.