ClassClockAPI

This is the backend that provides access to the ClassClock database.

Environment Variables

Environment Variable	Default	Purpose
DB_USERNAME	no default. this value is required	The username of the user to connect to the database with
DB_PASSWORD	no default. this value is required	The password of the user to connect to the database with
DB_HOST	localhost	the hostname where the database is located
DB_NAME	classclock	the name of the database to use if it is different
DB_CONNECTION_URL	constructed based on the above values	Allows the SQLAlchemy connection string to be manually set
AUTH0_DOMAIN	no default	The Auth0 api domain i.e. yourapp.auth0.com
API_IDENTIFIER	no default	Your Auth0 api identifier. This may be your API domain name. i.e. https://api.yourdomain.com
AUTH0_CLIENT_ID	no default	Your Auth0 Client ID
AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET	no default	Your Auth0 Client Secret
SENTRY_DSN	no default	The dsn URL from the sentry.io setup in case you wish to set up error monitoring
TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT	no default	The number of proxies that are in between users and the app itself. Setting this too high can create security problems. Setting too low can cause rate limiting to not work. see here for what this is used for

First time Setup

1. Prepare an empty database and have its configuration information handy (login, hostname/port, db name .etc)
2. Install all dependencies (including dev dependencies) using pipenv install -d
3. set up a .env file with your database configuration settings from earlier
4. create the db by running pipenv run python3 createdb.py. add the --demo flag to createdb if you want to include demo data.

After this you should be ready to run the API.

Docker

This API has been set up to run in a docker container.

The simplest way to run it is to:

1. aquire the container either from a docker repository or by running docker build . -t classclock-api in a cloned version of this repo
2. set up the environment variables you want per the above table
3. use a command like docker run -p 8000:8000 --rm -it --env-file dev.env classclock-api:latest to run the container interactively using dev.env as the source of the environment variables. The app will start up on port 8000.

Contributing

If you are interested in making changes to the ClassClock API, see the CONTRIBUTING file for details on how to do so.