technovationslp-backend

Backend for Technovation app for San Luis Potosí, México community

To know more about the project take a look to our wiki

Build

To build the application it is required to have maven installed then execute:

mvn clean package

Run

To run the application execute:

java -DJWT_PUBLIC_KEY=<public key for JWT encoded as base64> \
     -DJWT_PRIVATE_KEY=<private key for JWT encoded as base64> \
     -DFIREBASE_DATABASE_URL=https://<project name>.firebaseio.com \
     -DFIREBASE_CONFIG=<json object provided by firebase for service account authentication encoded as base64 > \
      -jar target/technovation-backend-<version>.jar

It is recommend to add (anywhere between java and -jar)

-Xms256m -Xmx256m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m 

To save some resources when it is run locally

JWT configuration

To generate pair of keys for JWT you can follow the steps bellow:

1. openssl genrsa -out jwt.pem to generate the pair of keys
2. openssl rsa -in jwt.pem will show the private key
3. openssl rsa -in jwt.pem -pubout will show the public key

Firebase configuration

In order to fill the parameters FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL and FIREBASE_CONFIG you'll need to create a firebase project under https://console.firebase.google.com

To get FIREBASE_CONFIG value go to Project configuration/Service accounts and then click on Generate new private key. You'll get a json file, copy the content and encoded it as base64. Use the encoded value for the parameter.

Note: Read first the section Dev environment on this document before create any firebase project it can be not needed at all

Note: The real configuration is provided vía environment variables and can't be shared due to security reasons

Testing

To test the application you can use the postman collection provided

Dev environment

It has been created a spring profile so devs don't need to worry about a real firebase token to authenticate requests. In order to use this feature run the application adding

--spring.profiles.active=fake-token-granter

The values that can be used as the tokenId are described in the file application-fake-token-granter.yml

Use those tokens for the parameter firebase_token_id during login to the endpoint oauth/token