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Hi @mrpippy, Thanks again for all the help getting this project rolling. Do you have any objection to re-licensing this CC0 along the lines of these GSA 18F guidelines so this could be adopted more broadly inside/outside gov if desired? I don't know much about the patent issues but happy to consider broader licenses too.

I think we and @AlexMerritt are the only contributors so far but there were some more interested folks tonight at hacknight. The code is running great in a React environment over at https://github.com/codeforboston/windfall-elimination/ .

Short version:
I used the below line to replace https://github.com/codeforboston/anypia-js/blob/master/anypiajs/CMakeLists.txt#L67 along with ./installbuild-emscripten-mac.sh to compile AnyPIAJS.mjs for the Windfall Awareness project using the July 2020 (>= 1.39.17) version of Emscripten (I used a new emscripten promise feature in the line below).

set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-s USE_BOOST_HEADERS=1" LINK_FLAGS "-s USE_BOOST_HEADERS=1 -s EXPORT_ES6=1 -s USE_ES6_IMPORT_META=1 -s ENVIRONMENT=web -MODULARIZE=1 -s WASM=1 --bind ${EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS} ${EXPORTED_RUNTIME_METHODS}")

But this change is not committed to this repository yet. Also ENVIRONMENT=web does not work with NodeJS so cannot be used in automated testing such as what we might want to do with TravisCI in this repo.

More details at codeforboston/windfall-elimination#209

The Windows AnyPIA detailed calculator got updated yesterday with the new COVID economic projections. Good timing to dig back into the AnyPIA-JS and perhaps even automate parts of the refreshed build.

The current version of the Detailed Calculator is 2021.1, which we released on November 20, 2020. It updates the economic data with the new automatic adjustments announced on October 13, 2020.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/anypia/anypia.html

Also I noticed that TravisCI may not be free starting next year unfortunately: a big setback. I might look into getting Code for Boston to pay for it rather than rewriting the very particular Windows tests builds in Github Actions. It could be a slog to replicate the emscripten's python+nodejs+visualstudio environment. Maybe choco will make it easier than I think though.

In happier news, I had a great call just now with the SSA-focused staffer at Congresswoman Lori Trahan's office showing him through the app for the first time and about connecting with the Northeast region Social Security administration rep about re-using these pieces.

anypiab is a command line program like the anypia32 GUI program.

Loading a *.pia file outputs something like
"123-45-0020 06/22/1952 1235.80 2090.10 931.00 62 and 1 month 5 T" but it also appears that it outputs to a file (thanks @AlexMerritt)

One issue we will face is getting the earnings, and other data, into anypia-js

The current interface is using this .pia file format.
http://thadk.net/anypiamac-docs/html/General/structure.html

The alternative is to support the XML format somehow with the oactobjs libraries directly and plug the javascript straight into its state format and skip the .pia format.

A simple interface project was added to the repo (anypiajs). This will replace needing to build anypiab or anypia32 and allow us the flexibility to define what we want out of the ssa calculator without editing any of their source code.

Create an interface into the c++ anypiajs interface.

• These functions from this interface will mirror anything that we expose from anypiajs.
• Create a html template so that when we build the emscription we use our own html page rather than what is auto generated.
• The interface should look something like https://github.com/azavea/loam/blob/develop/src/worker.js
• The interface should be easily called to make the front end as easy as possible
• We also need to determine how we want to be passing data into and out of the interface.