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This project is currently under development. If you wish to contribute, please join our Discord located at: https://discord.gg/7xF65ap and check out the channel #if-you-wish-to-contribute.

Repo submodules

NOTE: After you have cloned this repository, you also need to install the git submodule which contain various constants used across the PS2Alerts repositories. Simply execute

git submodule update --init --recursive

If in the future your application is performing weird saying it can't find references to things, pull the latest modules in via running ./module-update.sh.

Starting the module

To start the environment for the first time, execute ps2alerts-api-init. If you don't have this command available, pull in the Stack and follow the instructions there to get set up properly.

tl;dr:

ps2alerts-stack-start if stack not already started. If you wish to see output of this module, run ps2alerts-api-dev.

Responsibilities

The API is a very dumb overlay over MongoDB, which inserts and updates data. It acts as a single source of truth for data access.

Interaction with PS2Alerts Aggregator

The PS2Alerts Aggregator consumes data coming in from the Census Streaming Service and generates aggregates / statistics for us to store.

The Aggregator service pushes the data to the API over a RabbitMQ queue. The API consumes this queue, and routes it to the endpoint controllers via a feature within NestJS called MessagePattern. This forwards anything listening on this message pattern to the endpoint / controller in question.

In order for this to work, messages must be supplied to the queue NestJS is listening to in the following format:

{
  "pattern": "instanceDeath",
  "data": {
    "foo": "bar"
  }
}

Here, any endpoint / function with @EventPattern('instanceDeath') will consume the message and process it.

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Centalised API that processes aggregates coming in from the Aggregator via RabbitMQ. Also is a REST interface for the website and external users.

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