meuParlamento backend api

This project provides the HTTP API with endpoints for the mobile app

Backend-api provides endpoints to request random proposals, authors and news.

Requirements

Installation using Docker

Our docker-compose descriptor takes care of everything providing mongodb intance and backend-api HTTP interface. Make sure you have installed docker and docker-compose.

$ docker-compose up

Test if the HTTP interface is up and running:

$ curl http://localhost:8000/
{"hello": "meuParlamento.pt"}

Data import

Once you have mongodb up and running you can import the data available at https://github.com/meuparlamento/open-data.

$ git clone https://github.com/meuparlamento/open-data
$ mongoimport --db meuParlamento --collection proposals --file open-data/proposals.json

Manual installation

In case you prefer not to use Docker we recommend creating a python environment and installing all python requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running app.py

This project is based on a microframework called Chalice, a Python Serverless Microframework for AWS. Chalice allows you to quickly create and deploy applications that use Amazon Lambda. For more information on how to setup and deploy this project to Amazon AWS please check Chalice Documentation.

In order to run it locally just type:

chalice local --port 9000 --stage manual

Our docker description takes care of mongodb instance and url. If you need to customize it,
edit .chalice/config.json. To illustrate it, if you have a local mongodb instance please edit MONGODB_URI value (e.g. mongodb://localhost:27017).

{
    "version": "2.0",
    "app_name": "meuparlamento-backend-api",
    "stages": {
      "manual": {
        "api_gateway_stage": "manual",
        "environment_variables": {
          "MONGODB_URI": "mongodb://localhost:27017",
          "DB_NAME":"meuParlamento"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Testing

To run tests you can use pytest:

pytest

Contributing

Fork it (https://github.com/meuparlamento/meuparlamento-backend-api/fork)
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
Create a new Pull Request

meuparlamento/meuparlamento-backend-api