Backend for new archive site

Overview

Backend for new archive site including, ETLs from BB Metadata DB to Elasticsearch.

Commands

The archive-backend is meant to be executed as command line. Type archive-backend <command> -h to see how to use each command.

archive-backend server

Execute the backend api server for the new archive site.

archive-backend version

Print the version of archive-backend

Configuration

The default config file is config.toml in your current work directory.

See config.sample.toml for a sample config file.

Release and Deployment

Once development is done, all tests are green, we want to go live. All we have to do is simply execute misc/release.sh.

To add a pre-release tag, add the relevant environment variable. For example,

PRE_RELEASE=rc.1 misc/release.sh

MDB models

When MDB schema is changed we need to update the mdb package. Run this script:

misc/update_mdb_models.sh

Elasticsearch related stuff

(See the next section below for the instructions on installing Elasticsearch for Windows)

http://mrzard.github.io/blog/2015/03/25/elasticsearch-enable-mlockall-in-centos-7/

Build index

There are two more dependencies required to build index:

1. Open Office (soffice binary) - to convert all doc to docx.
2. python-docx pyton library - to get text from docx

• pip install python-docx

Elasticsearch installation for Windows

1. Download and install the Java Virtual Machine for Windows from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html

2. Download Elasticsearch 6.8.21 from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.8.21.zip

   Extract it to C:\elasticsearch-6.8.21

   If Elasticsearch keep crashing, consider adding these lines to jvm.options file in C:\elasticsearch-6.8.21\config

   • -Xms2g
   • -Xmx2g

   Xms represents the initial size of total heap space. Xmx represents the maximum size of total heap space.

3. Install the Hebrew dictionaries:

   • Download: he_IL.aff, he_IL.dic, settings.yml files from https://github.com/elastic/hunspell/tree/master/dicts/he_IL
   • Put these files under C:\elasticsearch-6.8.2\config\hunspell\he_IL
   • Additional dictionary terms are managed in .delta.dic files and located in search/hunspell directory of the repository. Copy these files into corresponding folders inside elasticsearch-6.8.2/config/hunspell/
   • Note that on Linux environment the supported format for Hebrew dictionary files is ISO 8859-8.

4. Download and install Python - version 2.7.x https://www.python.org/downloads/

5. Install python-docx (to get text from docx):

   • in CMD go to python directory

   cd C:\Python27

   • and type

   python -m pip install python-docx

6. Download and install LibreOffice (not OpenOffice!)

   https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/win-x86_64/5.4.5/en-US/LibreOffice_5.4.5_Win_x64.msi

   Update 'soffice-bin' value with soffice.exe full path in config.toml, [elasticsearch] section: "C://Program Files//LibreOffice 5//program//soffice.exe"

7. Copy to config.toml the required commented-out lines from config.sample.toml that are related to Windows.

8. Updating assets:

   In order to make correct data indexing you should update the ES mapping configuration files (JSON files in /data/es/mappings):

   1. Exec. \es\mappings\make.py with python from the root path of the project. For example:

      C:\Users\[USER]\go\src\github.com\Bnei-Baruch\archive-backend>python C:\Users\[USER]\go\src\github.com\Bnei-Baruch\archive-backend\es\mappings\make.py

   2. Repeat any time make.py is changed and executed.

   Note on MacOS I run it from the es/mappings folder

   $ cd es/mappings
   $ python make.py

License

MIT