Elastos SmartWeb Service

An API service that handles API calls between front-end and back-end operations using Flask. Allows both the CLI tool and the Elastos Console to use the API to retreive node properties and other information stored in the database.

Installation

Tested in Python version 3.7.4

For macOS, to install python using homebrew:

$brew install python3

For Linux based OS, to install python:

$apt-get install python3

Install virtualenv:

$pip3 install virtualenv

To get the API service running, run the following terminal commands:

$virtualenv -p `which python3` venv

$source venv/bin/activate

(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

While running the requirements.txt, if you are get a error "Library LSSL not found" while installing psycopg2, then run the following command or else skip this.

$brew install openssl
$env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip install psycopg2

Now let’s set up the app for development and start it:

(venv) $python setup.py develop

(venv) $python smartweb_service/app.py

PostgreSQL Setup

Step 1: Install PostgreSQL server 11.3

Step 2: Create a database name 'elastos_console'

Step 3: Start the PostgreSQL Server

$pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

Step 4: Execute the create table scripts at smartweb_service/scripts/elastos_console_create_scripts.sql

Step 5: Execute the insert scripts at smartweb_service/scripts/elastos_insert_script.sql

Unit Testing

Requires pytest version 2.9.1. Included as part of requirements.txt

If pytest is not installed. Run the following command:

$pip install pytest==2.9.1

Step 1:

$cd _pytest

Step 2:

$py.test test_api1.py