This project is the server API for delivering wine price data. It will also be used as the source for creating provenance for these price data. This server uses the postgrest project to provide the API.
The server API is documented, along with a number of example queries, as a Postman Collection. Additionally, a development and testing environment have been included. You will see the development version includes some precooked users and access_tokens that can be used directly, without explicitly creating them.
This application is comprised of a docker-compose file with 3 containers and one
volume. Running the command docker-compose up -d will build the containers
and deploy the system. You have a running API at that point.
It often makes sense to initialize a new volume with existing data. There is a Makefile that shows simple methods for dumping and restoring data on a running container.
In the end, we should have a mechanism where when catalogs are loaded, they will automatically be paginated with proper thumbnails. Currently we are doing that seperately, and uploading these data by themselves. In some ways that is better in the sense that for docker installations, we do not need to have special image modification software. Additonally, the administration step could be done via a browser, using this same type of setup. For example, we've verified that you can use pdf.js to build the individual page images from the pdf files. We've also verified that this almost works in nodejs using pdf.js. The problem being that an event is needed to know when the composition of the image is complete.
We do not use the high resolution images for our tool. Instead, we build these from our PDF. The idea here that that is more general of a solution. There is a Makefile in the example directory that shows the creation of a set of images and thumbnails from a single catalog.