The CARTO’s SQL API allows you to interact with your data inside CARTO, as if you were running SQL statements against a normal database.

• Run queries with fine-grained permissions through Auth API.
• Export data in multiple geospatial formats (CVS, geopackage, KML, SHP, spatialite, geojson, topojson, etc).
• Schedule jobs using Batch Queries.
• Copy queries allows you to use the PostgreSQL copy command for efficient streaming of data to and from CARTO.

Requirements:

• Node 12.x
• PostgreSQL >= 11.0
• PostGIS >= 2.4
• CARTO Postgres Extension >= 0.24.1
• Redis >= 4
• GDAL 1.11.0 (bin utils). See installing GDAL
• C++11 to build internal dependencies. When there's no pre-built binaries for your OS/architecture distribution.

Optional:

• Varnish
• Statsd

A template_postgis database is expected. One can be set up with

$ createdb --owner postgres --template template0 template_postgis
$ psql -d template_postgis -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis;'

To fetch and build all node-based dependencies, run:

$ npm install

You can inject the configuration through environment variables at run time. Check the file ./config/environments/config.js to see the ones you have available.

While the migration to the new environment based configuration, you can still use the old method of copying a config file. To enabled the one with environment variables you need to pass CARTO_SQL_API_ENV_BASED_CONF=true. You can use the docker image to run it.

Old way:

$ node app.js <env>

Where <env> is the name of a configuration file under ./config/environments/.

$ npm test

You can try to run the tests against the dependencies from the dev-env. To do so, you need to build the test docker image:

$ docker build -t sqlapi -f private/Dockerfile .
$ docker-compose -f private/docker-compose.yml build

Then you can run the tests like:

$ docker-compose -f private/docker-compose.yml  run sql-api-tests

It will mount your code inside a volume. In case you want to play and run npm test or something else you can do:

$ docker-compose -f private/docker-compose.yml run --entrypoint bash sql-api-tests

So you will have a bash shell inside the test container, with the code from your host.

⚠️ WARNING Some tests still fail inside the docker environment. Inside CI they don't yet use the ci folder to run the tests either. There is a failing test which prevents it.

$ npm run cover

Open ./coverage/lcov-report/index.html.

You can find an overview, guides, full reference, and support in CARTO's developer center. The docs directory contains different documentation resources, from a higher level to more detailed ones.

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