document-generator-consumer

Kafka consumer that hooks into the document-generator process asynchronously

Requirements

In order to build document-generator locally you will need the following:

• Java 8
• Maven
• Git
• Kafka
• document-render-service
• document-generator

Getting started

1. Run make
2. Run ./start.sh

Environment Variables

The supported environmental variables have been categorised by use case and are as follows.

Deployment Variables

Name	Description	Mandatory	Default	Example
DOCUMENT_GENERATION_CONSUMER_SERVICE_PORT	Configured port application runs on.	✓		10097
CONSUMER_TOPIC	Topic for the consumer to pick up	✓		render-submitted-data-document
GROUP_NAME	Group name for the consumer	✓		document-generator
CHS_API_KEY	Chs api key encoded and used to make APi calls	✓		valid Api key

Kafka

Consumer

A consumer group will poll the render-submitted-data-document topic for requests to generate a document.

Docker

To build a Docker image run the following command:

mvn compile jib:dockerBuild

This will output a Docker imaged named: 169942020521.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/local/document-generator-consumer

You can specify a different image name run mvn compile jib:dockerBuild -Dimage=<YOUR NAME HERE>

Producer

The following topics are produced to during the generation process:

Name	Description
document-generation-started	Notification that the generation of the document has started
document-generation-completed	Details of the generated document
document-generation-failed	Notification that the generation of the document has failed