RapidPro Indexer

Simple service for indexing RapidPro contacts into ElasticSearch.

Deploying

As Indexer is a go application, it compiles to a binary and that binary along with the config file is all you need to run it on your server. You can find bundles for each platform in the releases directory. You should only run a single indexer instance for a deployment.

Indexer can run in two modes:

1. the default mode, which simply queries the ElasticSearch database, finds the most recently modified contact, then on a schedule queries the contacts_contact table on the RapidPro database for contacts to add or delete. You should run this as a long running service which constantly keeps ElasticSearch in sync with your RapidPro contacts.

2. a rebuild mode, started with --rebuild. This builds a brand new index from nothing, querying all contacts on RapidPro. Once complete, this switches out the alias for the contact index with the newly build index. This can be run on a cron (in parallel with the mode above) to rebuild your index occasionally to get rid of bloat.

Configuration

Indexer uses a tiered configuration system, each option takes precendence over the ones above it:

1. The configuration file
2. Environment variables starting with INDEXER_
3. Command line parameters

We recommend running Indexer with no changes to the configuration and no parameters, using only environment variables to configure it. You can use % rp-indexer --help to see a list of the environment variables and parameters and for more details on each option.

RapidPro Configuration

For use with RapidPro, you will want to configure these settings:

• INDEXER_DB: a URL connection string for your RapidPro database
• INDEXER_ELASTIC_URL: the URL for your ElasticSearch endpoint

Recommended settings for error reporting:

• INDEXER_SENTRY_DSN: The DSN to use when logging errors to Sentry

Development

Install Indexer source in your workspace with:

go get github.com/nyaruka/rp-indexer

Build Indexer with:

go build github.com/nyaruka/rp-indexer/cmd/rp-indexer

This will create a new executable in your current directory rp-indexer

To run the tests you need to create the test database:

$ createdb elastic_test

To run all of the tests:

go test github.com/nyaruka/rp-indexer/... -p=1

Usage

Indexes RapidPro contacts to ElasticSearch

Usage of indexer:
  -cleanup
    	whether to remove old indexes after a rebuild
  -db string
    	the connection string for our database (default "postgres://localhost/rapidpro?sslmode=disable")
  -debug-conf
    	print where config values are coming from
  -elastic-url string
    	the url for our elastic search instance (default "http://localhost:9200")
  -help
    	print usage information
  -index string
    	the alias for our contact index (default "contacts")
  -log-level string
    	the log level, one of error, warn, info, debug (default "info")
  -poll int
    	the number of seconds to wait between checking for updated contacts (default 5)
  -rebuild
    	whether to rebuild the index, swapping it when complete, then exiting (default false)
  -sentry-dsn string
    	the sentry configuration to log errors to, if any

Environment variables:
                             INDEXER_CLEANUP - bool
                                  INDEXER_DB - string
                         INDEXER_ELASTIC_URL - string
                               INDEXER_INDEX - string
                           INDEXER_LOG_LEVEL - string
                                INDEXER_POLL - int
                             INDEXER_REBUILD - bool
                          INDEXER_SENTRY_DSN - string
                          ```