Product Manager

The Product Manager is a micro-service that works as the catalog for an e-commerce app. It is built with the server-side Swift framework Vapor.

Setup

After you have forked and cloned the service, you will need to do a little setup so it can run:

1. MySQL

   Product Manager stores its data in a MySQL database. First, you need to install it:

   Homebrew:

   brew install mysql
   mysql_secure_installation

   APT:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install mysql-server
   mysql_secure_installation

   By default, the service expects the MySQL user to be root and the password to be password, but you can either change the value in the configuration of set the DATABASE_USER and DATABASE_PASSWORD environment variables.

   You then need to create a database called product_manager, or, as before, you can name it something else and change the config or set DATABASE_DB

2. JWT Tokens

   Product Manager uses JWT bearer authentication for protecting routes that mutate a collection (POST, PATCH, and DELETE routes). Product Manager relies on another service to create the token when the user authenticates, but it still needs to verify the token. To do this, it needs access to the token's public key. You can give access by assigning it to the JWT_PUBLIC key.

Documentation

You can read the API documentation here.

Vapor Cloud

The MySQL configuration is setup to work seamlessly with Vapor Cloud. Just make sure your replica has a MySQL database for it.

To set the JWT public key, you can run vapor cloud config modify JWT_PUBLIC=<TOKEN> from your project root.