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https://github.com/rehacktive/caffeine

A basic REST service for JSON data - enough for prototyping and MVPs!
https://github.com/rehacktive/caffeine

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A basic REST service for JSON data - enough for prototyping and MVPs!

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# caffeine - minimum viable backend
A very basic REST service for JSON data - enough for prototyping and MVPs!

**Features**:
- no need to set up a database, all data is managed automagically*
- REST paradigm CRUD for multiple entities/namespaces
- JWT authentication
- realtime notifications (HTTP/SSE)
- schema validation
- autogenerates Swagger/OpenAPI specs
- search using jq like syntax (see https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/)
- CORS enabled
- easy to deploy as container

**Currently supports**:
- in memory database (map)
- sqlite
- postgres
- filesystem storage

For a sample Vue app using caffeine see: https://gist.github.com/calogxro/6e601e07c2a937df4418d104fb717570

## How to

Simply start the server with:

```go
go run caffeine.go
```
optional params are:

```
Usage of caffeine:
-AUTH_ENABLED=false: enable JWT auth
-DB_TYPE="memory": db type to use, options: memory | postgres | fs | sqlite
-DB_PATH="./data": path of the file storage root or sqlite database
-IP_PORT=":8000": ip:port to expose
-PG_HOST="0.0.0.0": postgres host (port is 5432)
-PG_PASS="": postgres password
-PG_USER="": postgres user
```

Store a new "user" with an ID and some json data:

```sh
> curl -X POST -d '{"name":"jack","age":25}' http://localhost:8000/ns/users/1
{"name":"jack","age":25}
```

the value will be validated, but it could be anything (in JSON!)

retrieve later with:

```sh
> curl http://localhost:8000/ns/users/1
{"name":"jack","age":25}
```

## All operations

Insert/update
```sh
> curl -X POST -d '{"name":"jack","age":25}' http://localhost:8000/ns/users/1
{"name":"jack","age":25}
```

Delete
```sh
> curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8000/ns/users/1
```

Get by ID
```sh
> curl http://localhost:8000/ns/users/1
{"name":"jack","age":25}
```

Get all values for a namespace
```sh
> curl http://localhost:8000/ns/users | jq
[
{
"key": "2",
"value": {
"age": 25,
"name": "john"
}
},
{
"key": "1",
"value": {
"age": 25,
"name": "jack"
}
}
]
```

Get all namespaces
```sh
> curl http://localhost:8000/ns
["users"]
```

Delete a namespace
```sh
> curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8000/ns/users
{}
```

Search by property (jq syntax)
```sh
> curl http://localhost:8000/search/users?filter="select(.name==\"jack\")" | jq
{
"results": [
{
"key": "1",
"value": {
"age": 25,
"name": "jack"
}
}
]
}
```

## JWT Authentication

There's a first implementation of JWT authentication. See [documentation about JWT](JWT.md)

## Realtime Notifications

Using HTTP Server Sent Events (SSE) you can get notified when data changes, just need to listen from the /broker endpoint:

```sh
curl http://localhost:8000/broker
```

and for every insert or delete an event will be triggered:

```sh
{"event":"ITEM_ADDED","namespace":"test","key":"1","value":{"name":"john"}}
...
{"event":"ITEM_DELETED","namespace":"test","key":"1"}
...
```

## Swagger/OpenAPI specs

After you add some data, you can generate the specs with:

```sh
curl -X GET http://localhost:8000/openapi.json
```
or you can just go to http://localhost:8000/swaggerui/ and use it interactively!

## Schema Validation

You can add a schema for a specific namespace, and only correct JSON data will be accepted

To add a schema for the namespace "user", use the one available in schema_sample/:

```sh
curl --data-binary @./schema_sample/user_schema.json http://localhost:8000/schema/user
```

Now only validated "users" will be accepted (see user.json and invalid_user.json under schema_sample/)

## Run as container

```sh
docker build -t caffeine .
```
and then run it:
```sh
docker run --publish 8000:8000 caffeine
```

## Run with Postgres

First run an instance of Postgres (for example with docker):

```sh
docker run -e POSTGRES_USER=caffeine -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -p 5432:5432 -d postgres:latest
```

Then run caffeine with the right params to connect to the db:

```sh
DB_TYPE=postgres PG_HOST=0.0.0.0 PG_USER=caffeine PG_PASS=mysecretpassword go run caffeine.go
```

(params can be passed as ENV variables or as command-line ones)

A very quick to run both on docker with docker-compose:

```sh
docker-compose up -d
```