yusofbandar / timeseriesdatacapture_importsource

Implementation of the ImportSource interface, described in TimeSeriesDataCapture

TimeSeriesDataCapture_ImportSource

Implementation of the ImportSource interface, described in TimeSeriesDataCapture

Building

Prerequisites

MongoDB Database

see MongoDB Hosting and MongoDB Creation

Heroku

To build the Import API on heroku simply click the Deploy To Heroku button above

Localhost

To build browse locally first the API swagger.yaml file must be modified.

Locate the host on Line 10 and change host: <url> to host: "localhost:8000"

Locate the schemes on Line 16 and change - "https" to -http

To start server run:

node index.js

Environment Variables

Database

Database URL, Database Username, Database Password and Database Name can be all found within the mLab dashboard

For help see MongoDB

Variable	Example	Description
DATABASE_URL	DATABASE URL	this is the access url for the MongoDB database.
DATABASE_USERNAME	DATABASE USERNAME	this is the username for the MongoDB database.
DATABASE_PASSWORD	DATABASE PASSWORD	this is the password for the MongoDB database.
DATABASE_NAME	DATABASE NAME	this is the database name
DEBUG	*	Node debugging. Defines what components produce logging. Usually set to *
DISABLE_CLUSTERING	true	set to false to enable running on multiple cores. Currently set to true, because it's not yet tested.
PORT	443	Notionally, this variable is set to 443, but it simply exists as a placeholder for heroku. When running locally use port 8001
WEB_CONCURRENCY	4	Number of cores to use.

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This project was funded via the Marloes Peeters Research Group and mentored by DigitalLabs@MMU as a DigitalLabs Summer Project. It is the work of Yusof Bandar.