An attempt on creating an api for eduroam access point placement onto the 'Where can I eduroam'-map. This application is intended to work as an intermediary between organization(s) and the party responsible for adding the locations.

Wiki

Latest build @ heroku

Setup

# git clone https://github.com/ruupert/eduroam-location-api.git
# cd eduroam-location-api
# bundle install
# export EDUROAM_API_ADMIN_USERNAME=username
# export EDUROAM_API_ADMIN_PW=secret
# export EDUROAM_API_DEFAULT_LANGS=fi,se
# export NRO_COUNTRY=fi
# export GMAPAPI=<Google Maps API-key>

EDUROAM_API_DEFAULT_LANGS controls the other languages that are added by default besides english (which is mandatory).

Edit config/database.yml to point to your database

# rake db:create
# rake db:migrate
# rails server

Using the set username and password you can access /institutions and /import paths.

Issues

• Import functionality can't handle all types of addresses. The application does not currently provide any way for the admin to edit locations.
• Importer doesn't fill the missing EDUROAM_API_DEFAULT_LANGS
• Importer produces wrong minute -character for coordinates.
• Importer/exporter depends on comma separated values for realm and contact information and thus when adding a new institution via /institutions/new, you most likely need to add equal amount of contact info-types (name, email and phone)
• Importer currently proceeeds to add locations and entries even if the institution already exists. Workaround: Use the import -function only once.
• If AP count is set to 0 in some institution location, then it still shows up on get locations, which might be a bit confusing.
• API-response is in JSON format which is not not so human readable: Need to provide separate output with tab delimeters.
• Currently there is no way to add new organization info and policy urls and consequently no means to delete them.
• Move environment variables to a configuration file.
• many more...

ToDo

• Code refactoring: Moving code to their appropriate places. Like moving code out from controllers to models.
• Many of the RSpec tests are misplaced and they do not use FactoryGirl for fixtures: Need to organize them better.
• Institution API-key regeneration -button for the admin
• Exporter default loc_name tag is not really informative as such. In case of not imported location, this may be set as default to "#{location address}, #{institution name}"
• Rolling back an institution to some specific date by deleting all records belonging to the institution after the given date.
• Manual edit capability for the admin: Main function would be to fix addresses that the importer did not detect correctly.
• Apply GMapHandler to the importer -function: Many problems that need to be solved (e.g. some incomplete finnish addresses may resolve to swedish).
• Users cannot add new organization SSIDs currently. Need to provide a method of adding and deleting them.

Notes

• This application has been tested on Sqlite3 and PostgreSQL. One query may be such which makes this application not work on other databases.