API server for Linjekoll

Handles:

• validation
• pushing data to beanstalk

A live server can be found here.

Installation

Start by cloning the project.

git clone git@github.com:linjekoll/api-server-js.git

Navigate to the downloaded folder and run bundler.

cd api-server-js && bundle install

Start the server by running foreman start.

API requests

PUT: /:api_key/providers/:provider_id/journeys/:journey_id

• api_key (String) An API key provided by linjekoll.
• provider_id (Integer) You provider id, should be a uniq id from out database.
• journey_id (Object) What journey/trip should be updated? This might be any value.

Ingoing data.

{
  event: "event",
  next_station: 8998235,
  previous_station: 898345,
  arrival_time: 1318843870,
  alert_message: "oops!",
  line_id: 2342
}

• event (String) ("did_leave_station"|"update"|"alert") What event was triggered?
• previous_station (Integer) What is the previous? Value from database, station_id.
• next_station (Integer) Where are we headed? Value from database, station_id.
• arrival_time (Integer) When is the train ariving at next_station? This should be a unix time stamp.
• alert_message (String) Is there anything wrong ? This might be null.
• line_id (Integer) What line do we want to update? Value from database, line_id.

Returns 204 if everything went okay, otherwise 400.

An 400 request returns this data.

{
  valid: false
  errors: ["id is not a valid int"]
}

GET /

Just a heartbeat.

What's being pushed to Beanstalkd?

{
  event: "event",
  next_station: 8998235,
  previous_station: 898345,
  arrival_time: 1318843870,
  alert_message: "oops!",
  line_id: 2342
  provider_id: 123123,
  journey_id: 123123
}

Here we're using the same attributes as above.

Setup

Install node.js ~> 0.4.12 and npm.

Then install dependencies and run the server by typing:

npm install -d && node app.js.

Present functionality

• Doesn't check API-keys

Routes:

PUT: /:api_key/providers/:provider_id/journeys/:journey_id

/pop - get the pending job from beanstalk

/push - push a dummy job into beanstalk