Groot is the next generation web application serving the UIUC Chapter of ACM. It is the replacement for liquid which goes defunct 1/1/2016. The groot repo itself is an API Gateway written in Fall of 2015 It provides the following capabilities:
- Easy registration of services
- Universal Authentication for the entire application - via an external authentication provided (Atlassian crowd)
- Proxying API calls
- Managing inter-service communication
Groot provides a JSON face to any service. When registering as service specify the data encoding and when requesting a resource though groot make the request using json.
Add the API spec in a new file (ex. todo.go) in the services package
There is a set of proxy api calls defined in the proxy package that will route call to the backend services
AS OF 10/28/15
/**
* Pass the http Request from the client and the ResponseWriter it expects
* Pass the target url of the backend service (not the url the client called)
* Pass the format of the service
* Pass a authorization token (optional)
* Will call the service and return the result to the client.
**/
func GET(w http.ResponseWriter, url string, format string, token string, r *http.Request) /**
* Pass the http Request from the client and the ResponseWriter it expects
* Pass the target url of the backend service (not the url the client called)
* Passes the encoded json(only format currently supported) to the service.
* Pass a authorization token (optional)
* Will call the service and return the result to the client.
**/
func POST(w http.ResponseWriter, url string, format string, token string, r *http.Request) /**
* Pass the http Request from the client and the ResponseWriter it expects
* Pass the target url of the backend service (not the url the client called)
* Passes the encoded json(only format currently supported) to the service.
* Pass a authorization token (optional)
* Will call the service and return the result to the client.
**/
func PUT(w http.ResponseWriter, url string, format string, token string, r *http.Request)/**
* Pass the http Request from the client and the ResponseWriter it expects
* Pass the target url of the backend service (not the url the client called)
* Pass a authorization token (optional)
* Will call the service and return the result to the client.
**/
func DELETE(w http.ResponseWriter, url string, format string, token string, r *http.Request)All secret data should be kept in a file called config.go in the config directory
Install Dependencies [First time setup]
go get github.com/gorilla/mux
go get github.com/boltdb/bolt
go get github.com/kennygrant/sanitize
go install github.com/gorilla/mux
go install github.com/boltdb/bolt
go install github.com/kennygrant/sanitizeinstall packages
go install github.com/acm-uiuc/groot/proxy
go install github.com/acm-uiuc/groot/config
go install github.com/acm-uiuc/groot/services
go install github.com/acm-uiuc/groot/securityrun the server
go run ./server/*.gocompile the service
go build -o groot [PATH TO GROOT]/servergroot [-r | --register-client client_name] [-c | --check-registration token] [-u | --unsecured]-r | --register-client client_name
registers a client, generates a token
-c | --check-registration token
checks if a token is valid and returns name of client
-u | --unsecured
runs groot without the security layer
without args
runs groot with the security layer
This project is licensed under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. For a full copy of this license take a look at the LICENSE file.
When contributing new files to this project, preappend the following header to the file as a comment:
Copyright © 2016, ACM@UIUC
This file is part of the Groot Project.
The Groot Project is open source software, released under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License.
You should have received a copy of this license in a file with the distribution.
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