No way to define endpoint URL for AET reports

[zietas]

Instance setup:

1. Windows PC with 2 VM's installed using cookbook for windows Windows automation aet-cookbook#9 created by @karoldrazek
2. network for VM's using NAT - all relevant ports are forwarded
3. we have no proxy setup so all requests have to have port defined

Steps to reproduce

1. Run AET in given setup
2. open up report.html and wait for redirect

Expected
I should be able to see report

Actual
Report app is displaying connection error alerts

Reason
In JS Console we can see that reports app is trying to contact "http://192.168.37.12/api/metadata?company=cognifide&project=pioneer&correlationId=cognifide-pioneer-pioneer-ci-1493362630699", but due to fact that we have no proxy, nothing is dispatching request to Apache Karaf. If we execute the same request with port "http://192.168.37.12:8181/api/metadata?company=cognifide&project=pioneer&correlationId=cognifide-pioneer-pioneer-ci-1493362630699" we can see that report is there.

In order to fix this issue we need to have an ability to define endpoint for reports app as well. At the moment in "endpointConfiguration" module we can se that it's simply using current domain as endpoint.

[zietas]

Simply changing endpoint configuration will not fix anything as it causing CORS issues.

I've manage to fix it by altering rule on apache vhosts configuration.
<Location "/api"> Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" ProxyPass http://192.168.123.111:81/api </Location>

I have raised an issue with aet-coockbook pull request for windows-automation

[zietas]

Seems like the solution is in place. The only thing that should also be provide is a guide on how and why we have to do it this way. There is no mention about this in manual.

[wiiitek]

When doing this task please update also documentation at:

https://github.com/Cognifide/aet/blob/master/documentation/src/main/wiki/LinuxAndWindowsSetup.md