rd-judicial-data-load

Judicial reference data load (JRD)

JRD is batch application and JRD batch is scheduled with Kubernetes which runs once in a day per cluster.

JRD consume data files from an external source, transform that data into the destination format and load the data into JRD database.

JRD Uses Data-Ingestion-Library (https://github.com/hmcts/data-ingestion-lib) and configure camel routes with data-ingestion-lib & JRD custom configuration files & crates camel integration framework which reads CSV files & Stores the CSV files data in JRD Database.

Library should be included with build.gradle like follows compile group: 'uk.gov.hmcts.reform', name: 'data-ingestion-lib', version: '0.5.2.4' And release versions library can be found in bintray (https://bintray.com/hmcts/hmcts-maven/data-ingestion-lib)

For More Information Please see the confluence. https://tools.hmcts.net/confluence/display/RTRD/Judicial+Reference+Data

Consumption of files from a SFTP server

The files received from SFTP server are encrypted using GPG encryption (which complies with OpenPGP standards).

An internal SFTP server (behind a F5 Load balancer) will poll the files at periodic intervals from the external SFTP server. It will forward the files onto the untrusted network that Palo Alto is listening on.

The Palo Alto untrusted interfaces will form the Palo Alto backend pool, used by requests matched by the path-based rule.

The files are decrypted and then scanned and if everything is okay then trusted traffic is sent to a configured endpoint, in this case an Azure Blob Storage account.

Data Transformation and Load - This is achieved through a K8S scheduler and Apache Camel.

Kubernetes scheduler triggers Apache Camel routes which process files stored in Azure blob storage and persists it JRD database.

Plugins

The template contains the following plugins:

• checkstyle

  https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/checkstyle_plugin.html

  Performs code style checks on Java source files using Checkstyle and generates reports from these checks. The checks are included in gradle's check task (you can run them by executing ./gradlew check command).

• pmd

  https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/pmd_plugin.html

  Performs static code analysis to finds common programming flaws. Included in gradle check task.

• jacoco

  https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/jacoco_plugin.html

  Provides code coverage metrics for Java code via integration with JaCoCo. You can create the report by running the following command:

    ./gradlew jacocoTestReport

  The report will be created in build/reports subdirectory in your project directory.

• io.spring.dependency-management

  https://github.com/spring-gradle-plugins/dependency-management-plugin

  Provides Maven-like dependency management. Allows you to declare dependency management using dependency 'groupId:artifactId:version' or dependency group:'group', name:'name', version:version'.

• org.springframework.boot

  http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/

  Reduces the amount of work needed to create a Spring application

• org.owasp.dependencycheck

  https://jeremylong.github.io/DependencyCheck/dependency-check-gradle/index.html

  Provides monitoring of the project's dependent libraries and creating a report of known vulnerable components that are included in the build. To run it execute gradle dependencyCheck command.

• com.github.ben-manes.versions

  https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin

  Provides a task to determine which dependencies have updates. Usage:

    ./gradlew dependencyUpdates -Drevision=release

Building and deploying the application

Building the application The project uses Gradle as a build tool. It already contains ./gradlew wrapper script, so there's no need to install gradle.

Environment Vars

If running locally for development or testing you will need to add (Application.yml and application-camel-routes-common.yaml) and set the following environment variables

• ACCOUNT_NAME:
• ACCOUNT_KEY:
• CONTAINER_NAME: jud-ref-data

Running the application

Please Make sure you are connected to the VPN before running the Application. (https://portal.platform.hmcts.net/vdesk/webtop.eui?webtop=/Common/webtop_full&webtop_type=webtop_full)

Create the image of the application by executing the following command:

  ./gradlew assemble

Create docker image:

  docker-compose build

Run the distribution (created in `build/install/rd-judicial-data-load directory) by executing the following command:

  docker-compose up

After, you can start the application from the current source files using Gradle as follows:

./gradlew clean bootRun

This will start the API container exposing the application's port (set to 8099 in this template app).

In order to test if the application is up, you can call its health endpoint:

  curl http://localhost:8094/health

Alternative script to run application

To skip all the setting up and building, just execute the following command:

./bin/run-in-docker.sh

For more information:

./bin/run-in-docker.sh -h

Script includes bare minimum environment variables necessary to start api instance. Whenever any variable is changed or any other script regarding docker image/container build, the suggested way to ensure all is cleaned up properly is by this command:

docker-compose rm

It clears stopped containers correctly. Might consider removing clutter of images too, especially the ones fiddled with:

docker images

docker image rm <image-id>

To build the project execute the following command: ./gradlew build

The application exposes health endpoint (http://localhost:8094/health) and metrics endpoint (http://localhost:8094/metrics).