GROOT

This repo contains the API Gateway written in Fall of 2015 It provides the following capabilities:

• Easy registration of services
• Universal Authentication for the entire application - via an external authentication provided (Atlassian crowd)
• Proxying API calls
• Managing inter-service communication

When registering as service specify the data encoding and when requesting a resource though groot make the request using json.

RUNNING GROOT

Add the API spec in a new file (ex. todo.go) in the services package

There is a set of proxy api calls defined by the Arbor framework which the API Gateway is written in.

AS OF 4/24/17

/**
 *  Pass the http Request from the client and the ResponseWriter it expects
 *  Pass the target url of the backend service (not the url the client called)
 *  Pass the format of the service
 *  Pass a authorization token (optional)
 *  Will call the service and return the result to the client.
 **/
 arbor.GET(w http.ResponseWriter, url string, format string, token string, r *http.Request)

 /**
  *  Pass the http Request from the client and the ResponseWriter it expects
  *  Pass the target url of the backend service (not the url the client called)
  *  Passes the encoded json(only format currently supported) to the service.
  *  Pass a authorization token (optional)
  *  Will call the service and return the result to the client.
  **/
  arbor.POST(w http.ResponseWriter, url string, format string, token string, r *http.Request)

 /**
  *  Pass the http Request from the client and the ResponseWriter it expects
  *  Pass the target url of the backend service (not the url the client called)
  *  Passes the encoded json(only format currently supported) to the service.
  *  Pass a authorization token (optional)
  *  Will call the service and return the result to the client.
  **/
  arbor.PUT(w http.ResponseWriter, url string, format string, token string, r *http.Request)

/**
 *  Pass the http Request from the client and the ResponseWriter it expects
 *  Pass the target url of the backend service (not the url the client called)
 *  Pass a authorization token (optional)
 *  Will call the service and return the result to the client.
 **/
 arbor.DELETE(w http.ResponseWriter, url string, format string, token string, r *http.Request)

All secret data should be kept in a file called config.go in the config directory

Make sure you have go dependencey management installed

go get github.com/golang/dep/...

Install Dependencies [First time setup]

dep ensure 

Compile the service

./build.sh

CLI

groot-api-gateway [-r | --register-client client_name] [-c | --check-registration token] [-u | --unsecured]

-r | --register-client client_name

registers a client, generates a token

-c | --check-registration token

checks if a token is valid and returns name of client

-u | --unsecured

runs groot without the security layer

without args

runs groot with the security layer

Docker

Creating a client key:

docker-compose run groot-api-gateway ./build/groot-api-gateway -r <client_name>

Checking a client key:

docker-compose run groot-api-gateway ./build/groot-api-gateway -c <client_key>

Config Values

To allow all services to work with the docker network, make sure to set these values in config.go:

//Service hosts
const CreditsURL = "http://groot-credits-service:8765"
const EventsURL = "http://groot-events-service:8002"
const GigsURL = "http://groot-gigs-service:8964"
const GroupsURL = "http://groot-groups-service:9001"
const HardwareURL = "http://groot:4523/api/v1.0"
const MemesURL = "http://groot-meme-service:42069"
const MerchURL = "http://groot-merch-service:6969"
const QuotesURL = "http://groot-quotes-service:9494"
const RecruiterURL = "http://groot-recruiters-service:4567"
const UsersURL = "http://groot-users-service:8001"

//Arbor configurations
func LoadArborConfig() {
    security.AccessLogLocation = "/var/groot-api-gateway/access.log"
    security.ClientRegistryLocation = "/var/groot-api-gateway/clients.db"
    proxy.AccessControlPolicy = "*"
}

License

This project is licensed under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. For a full copy of this license take a look at the LICENSE file.

When contributing new files to this project, preappend the following header to the file as a comment:

Copyright © 2017, ACM@UIUC

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You should have received a copy of this license in a file with the distribution.