Summerware Pre-Release Boilerplate

Socrata Wrapper

The template app has some very basic routes orangized by the available pre-prelease data:

/emergency
/non-emergency

More resources to follow shortly...

Given that the pre-release data is private, we need to use Basic auth and provide an app token to make http requests to Socrata. We've wrapped this process in the lib at:

socrata = require('./server/util/socrata'),

NOTE: You will require a config file to be located at:

~/.opspark/socrata-app.json

Please contact Operation Spark for this super secret information.

Usage:

var 
    env = require('./server/util/env'),
    config = _.find(require(env.home() + '/.opspark/socrata-app.json'), {'name': 'test'}),
    socrata = require('./server/util/socrata');

var url = _.result(_.find(config.resources, {'name': '311'}), 'url');
var qs = {$limit: 10, issue_type: "Street Flooding/Drainage"};

socrata.get(url, qs).then(function (data) {
  console.log(data);
});

Socrata Query String Options

Param	Description	Default
$select	The set of columns to be returned	All columns
$where	Filters the rows to be returned	No filter
$order	Specifies the order of results	Unorder
$group	Column to group results on, similar to SQL Grouping	No grouping
$limit	Maximum number of results to return	1000 (and a maximum of 1000)
$offset	Offset count into the results to start at, used for paging	Starts at 0
$q	Performs a full text search for a value	No search

Start Developing

1. Fork this repo on GitHub

2. From your forked GitHub repo, using the SSH clone url option, clone into a new workspace on Cloud9 (c9.io).

3. Once in your workspace, from the root directory, run the command:

    npm install
   

4. Next, cd into the client directory, and run the command:

    bower install
   

5. Finally, upload the socrata-app.json config file (ask Operation Spark in our Slack room), and move this file to:

    ~/.opspark/socrata-app.json
   

Running the Server

This is a client/server app, the server is written in express.js and currently has a brief angular.js client. To run the server and develop:

1. Open app.js and start the app by clicking on the "Run" button in the top menu.

2. Alternatively you can launch the app from the Terminal:

   $ node app.js

3. Once the server is running, open the project in the shape of 'https://projectname-username.c9.io/'. We recommend popping this tab out from Cloud9 into a separate Chrome browser so that you can make use of the Chrome debugger tools!

4. Restart or Stop and Start the server on iterations.

Endpoints

Hit the various endpoints, for example, for my Cloud9 user:

https://summerware-template-jfraboni.c9.io/non-emergency?$limit=10&issue_type=Street%20Flooding%2FDrainage

Or:

https://summerware-template-jfraboni.c9.io/emergency?$limit=10&TypeText=DISCHARGING%20FIREARMS