odataserver2

Odataserver rewritten from scratch. Now modularized and built using streams.

Pre-requisites

NodeJS and a MySQL (or MariaDB) needs to be installed.

Getting started

First install the with npm install

Make sure that MySQL is running, create setenv by copying setenv.template and update with the database credentials. On Windows, create setenv.bat using setenv.template.bat.

Start the server: source setenv; node odataserver2. On Windows run setenv.bat followed by node odataserver2.

Run the tests to see that everything works: node test_mysql.js

Process management

There are man different process management tools. I'm using supervisor. A NodeJS based alternative is forever.

Here is an example of a supervisor configuration (update the this according to your setup).

[program:odataserver2]
directory=/apps
environment =
  DB_HOST="mariadb",
  ADMIN_USER="root",
  ADMIN_PASSWORD="secret",
  MAIL_USER="[email protected]",
  MAIL_PASSWORD="secret"
command=node /apps/node_modules/odataserver2/odataserver2.js
stdout_logfile=syslog
stderr_logfile=syslog
autorestart=true

Basic HTTP authentication

It is now possible to authenticate users with basic HTTP authentication and build a custom authentication model. See connectbasicauth for details on how this is done.

ToDo

Rewrite the tosql function into a stream. This will make it possible to pass statement by statement to MySQL instead of just returning a string with many statements separated with semicolon. This will make it possible to always send a header in an operation, also before any errors might occur.

Troubleshooting

Solutions to some problems:

• Q: [Error: value required in setHeader("password", value).]

• A: Make sure that setenv is correct and used: source setenv

• Q: I get an assert error in the mysql unit test: ERROR { [AssertionError: POST delete_table]

• A: The reason is that the warningCount is 1 instead of 0 on some installations. Any problems due to this has not been observed.