Kazi

This is an informal (blue collar) job matching service that runs on SMS powered by AfricasTalking.

Features

• Register Jobseekers
• Register Employers
• Post jobs
• Get available jobs notification
• Apply to jobs

Run

Set up a local postgres database called kazi

Create and activate a virtual environment in the project root directory

virtualenv venv

source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run migrations:

alembic upgrade head

Be sure to have installed redis and have it running on your localhost.

Additionally, you should have the following variables in your .env

AT_USERNAME=YOUR_AT_USERNAME
AT_API_KEY=YOUR_AT_API_KEY

AfricasTalking requires that the service sends back a 200 response for every received message for them to stop resending it to our callback url.

Kazi therefore immediately returns a 200 response to africastalking each time a message is received then processes it asynchronously with the help of celery, with redis as the broker. For this reason to run this service you will have to run

    python run.py

on one terminal. Then

    celery -A run.celery worker --loglevel=info

on a second terminal

Setting Up AfricasTalking Callback URL

https://help.africastalking.com/en/articles/2206161-how-do-i-configure-my-callback-url

wtf is this async bs? I just want to test sending and receiving SMS with AT apis

Worry not. Just checkout this branch, with the synchronous implementation and you're good to go

git pull origin feature/synchronous
git checkout feature/synchronous