SnapHole API Server

An app that receives a photo from a client app and sends a request to the City of Ottawa for pot hole repair.

Codeowners

Contact these people for information and ideas about how you may contribute :)

@devisscher, @vatdaell, @jsivakumaran

Install Dependencies

You must first install all dependencies using the latest version of NodeJS. Must have Docker and MongoDB installed beforehand.

Then you must clone 2 repos as follows in the same parent folder.

• 📁 apps
  • 📁 Snaphole-Api
  • 📁 snaphole-webapp

$ git clone [email protected]:YOWCT/SnapHole-API.git
$ cd SnapHole-API
$ npm install

$ git clone [email protected]:YOWCT/snaphole-webapp.git
$cd snaphole-webapp
$npm install

Environment Variables

Add these variables in a file called .env at the root of SnapHole-Api. If you don't have credentials, contact someone in the Slack channel #Snap311.

LOCAL=127.0.0.1
PRODUCTION=prod_ip
APP_NAME=SnapHole.io
DOMAIN=http://localhost:8089
PORT=8089
DB_PASSWORD=password
MAILGUN_DOMAIN=mg.snaphole.io
MAILGUN_KEY=key
FROM_EMAIL=[email protected]

AWS_BUCKET=snaphole
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=key

Docker Compose (start/stop)

From SnapHole-Api. Start the web server and the client.

$ docker-compose up

Start the API only

$ npm start

> [email protected] prestart /Users/mac/Github/SnapHole-API
> jsdoc services/index.js -d public/docs


> [email protected] start /Users/mac/Github/SnapHole-API
> node ./bin/www

server running on port: 8089

Using your favorite web browser visit http://localhost:8089.

If you started the system with docker, you can also visit the client by visiting: http://localhost:3000.

Client

Refer to the readme in the client app.

References

Open 311 Docs

• http://wiki.open311.org/GeoReport_v2/#post-service-request
• http://data.ottawa.ca/en/dataset/open311

Open 311 Endpoints

• https://city-of-ottawa-dev.apigee.net/open311/v2/requests.json

Open 311 Post Request

POST /dev/v2/requests.xml
Host: api.city.gov
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8

api_key=xyz&jurisdiction_id=city.gov&service_code=001&lat=37.76524078&long=-122.4212043&address_string=1234+5th+street&email=smit333%40sfgov.edu&device_id=tt222111&account_id=123456&first_name=john&last_name=smith&phone=111111111&description=A+large+sinkhole+is+destroying+the+street&media_url=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.static.flickr.com%2F2002%2F2212426634_5ed477a060.jpg&attribute[WHISPAWN]=123456&attribute[WHISDORN]=COISL001

Useful docs

Deploy using Heroku

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/local-development-with-docker-compose
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/container-registry-and-runtime

Host Images

• https://medium.com/@adinugroho/upload-image-from-ios-app-using-alamofire-ecc6ad7fccc
• https://github.com/expressjs/multer/blob/master/StorageEngine.md

IOS

• https://youtu.be/zAWO9rldyUE
• http://jayeshkawli.ghost.io/ios-custom-url-schemes/

Create React App && Docker

• https://www.peterbe.com/plog/how-to-create-react-app-with-docker