Documentation ¶
Overview ¶
Package thingfulx provides a compatibility layer for implementing fetchers for use with the Thingful indexing system. New upstream providers can be added by implementing the core Fetcher interface contained within this library. These libraries can then be easily imported and used by Thingful.
Index ¶
- Constants
- type Category
- type Channel
- type Client
- type ContextKey
- type DataLicense
- type DefaultTimeProvider
- type Endpoint
- type ErrBadData
- type ErrMissingConfig
- type ErrUnexpectedResponse
- type Error
- type Indexer
- type IndexerBuilder
- type Location
- type Metadata
- type MockTimeProvider
- type Observation
- type Provider
- type Thing
- type TimeProvider
- type URLData
- type Visibility
Constants ¶
const ( // Home is the exported const representing the Thingful Home category Home = Category("http://purl.org/iot/vocab/thingful#Home") // Environment is the exported const representing the Thingful Environment // category Environment = Category("http://purl.org/iot/vocab/thingful#Environment") // Transport is the exported const representing the Thingful Transport // category Transport = Category("http://purl.org/iot/vocab/thingful#Transport") // Health is the exported const representing the Thingful Health category Health = Category("http://purl.org/iot/vocab/thingful#Health") // Energy is the exported const representing the Thingful Energy category Energy = Category("http://purl.org/iot/vocab/thingful#Energy") // Flora is the exported const representing the Thingful Flora and Fauna // category Flora = Category("http://purl.org/iot/vocab/thingful#FloraFauna") // Experiment is the exported const representing the Thingful Experiment // category Experiment = Category("http://purl.org/iot/vocab/thingful#Experiment") // Miscellaneous is the exported const representing the Thingful // Miscellaneous category Miscellaneous = Category("http://purl.org/iot/vocab/thingful#Miscellaneous") )
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const ( // ErrInvalidData is a generic error that can be returned if retrieved data // is invalid in any way ErrInvalidData = Error("thingfulx: invalid data") // ErrInvalidLocation is an error indicating that there is a problem with the // location of a fetched thing ErrInvalidLocation = Error("thingfulx: missing or invalid location data") // ErrInvalidTime is an error indicating that there is a problem with parsing // the time value from a retrieved thing ErrInvalidTime = Error("thingfulx: invalid time data") // ErrInvalidURL is an error used to flag an invalid url ErrInvalidURL = Error("thingfulx: invalid url") // ErrNotFound is an error that can be used for a 404 not found response ErrNotFound = Error("thingfulx: unexpected HTTP response code, got 404") )
const ( // Closed is the exported const representing a private endpoint requiring // authentication to use. Closed = Visibility("closed") // authentication but is free to use once credentials are supplied. Shared = Visibility("shared") // Open is the exported const representing an open endpoint, i.e. requiring // no authentication to use. Open = Visibility("open") )
const ( // ClientToken is the key we use when setting a token on a context when making // a request. Note it is the responsibility of the implementing indexer to // determine how to send this token value to the data infrastructure (i.e. // Authorization header, API Key in the query string or a header). ClientToken = ContextKey("client-token") )
Variables ¶
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Functions ¶
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Types ¶
type Category ¶
type Category string
Category is our type alias for thingful category instances
func Categorise ¶
Categorise is an extract of Thingful's original quick'n'nasty categorisation logic.
type Channel ¶
type Channel struct { ID string `json:"id"` Metadata []Metadata `json:"metadata"` Observations []Observation `json:"observations"` // dataType defines the type of data of this channel, eg; string, double, date-time Type schema.DataType `json:"dataType"` // QuantityKind defines measurement type of quantity kind of this channel, // in Ontology PoV, Channel is type QuantityKind, so type of channel can be anything that classified as quantitykind // for example m3-lite:Temperature, m3-lite:WindSpeed QuantityKind string `json:"quantityKind"` // Unit defines unit of this channel, it is short for thingful:hasUnit, // for example m3-lite:PPM, m3-lite:Miles Unit string `json:"unit"` // DomainOfInterest defines domain of interest of this channel, it is short for thingful:hasDomainOfInterest, // for example m3-lite:Environment, m3-lite:Weather DomainOfInterest []string `json:"domain"` // MeasuredBy defines type of sensor that measure this channel, it is short for thingful:measuredBy, // for example m3-lite:Seismometer, m3-lite:LightSensor MeasuredBy string `json:"measuredBy"` }
Channel represents an individual data channel being published by a Thing out there in the world somewhere.
type Client ¶
type Client interface { // DoHTTP is a thin wrapper around the `Do` method on `net/http.Client`. It // simply ensures we set the correct user agent header before making the // request. Note that unlike the wrapped standard library method we pass // context explicitly as the first parameter. DoHTTP(ctx context.Context, req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) // Get is a helper function on the client interface for the most common usage // of the Client, making a simple Get request for a given URL, and returning a // slice of bytes containing the HTTP response. This uses client.DoHTTP // internally so that it ensures the correct user agent string is sent. Note // that unlike the wrapped standard library method we pass context explicitly // as the first parameter. GetHTTP(ctx context.Context, urlStr string) ([]byte, error) // PostHTTP defines a function for sending a POST request to a data // infrastructure in order to obtain data. Typically we send GET requests, but // some infrastructures may require POST requests. This function returns a // slice of bytes for any HTTP OK response, and an error for anything else. If // you require finer control of this you should use the DoHTTP method directly // which returns the http.Response for processing as required. Note that unlike // the wrapped standard library method we pass context explicitly as the first // parameter. PostHTTP(ctx context.Context, urlStr, contentType string, body io.Reader) ([]byte, error) }
Client specifies an interface we will use for making outgoing requests within each Fetcher. Currently everything is HTTP, but that won't necessarily remain the case, so we add a layer of abstraction meaning we can add methods to our Client interface to support other protocols.
type ContextKey ¶
type ContextKey string
ContextKey is a type alias used for context keys to avoid any issues wth clashing keys
type DataLicense ¶
type DataLicense struct { // Human readable name for this license Name string `json:"name"` // url to the short version of the license URL string `json:"id"` // url to the long or legal version of the license LegalCodeURL string `json:"legalCode,omitempty"` // array containing list of properties that this license permits Permits []string `json:"permits,omitempty"` // array containing list of properties that this license requires Requires []string `json:"requires,omitempty"` // array containing list of properties that this license prohibits Prohibits []string `json:"prohibits,omitempty"` }
DataLicense is struct used to describe data license
func GetDataLicense ¶
func GetDataLicense(licenseURL string) *DataLicense
GetDataLicense is a function that returns a copy of a data license instance to make it easier to apply a standard license to a Thing. It takes in a license URL as a parameter, and returns an instantiated DataLicense instance representing that license or nil if the license is not defined in Thingfulx.
type DefaultTimeProvider ¶
type DefaultTimeProvider struct{}
DefaultTimeProvider is an implementation of our TimeProvider interface that returns now directly from time.Now().
func (DefaultTimeProvider) Now ¶
func (t DefaultTimeProvider) Now() time.Time
Now returns the current time. In the default implementation this is just the value of time.Now()
type Endpoint ¶
Endpoint is a data structure containing the actual URL we go to fetch data from for this thing, the page MIME type and information about the endpoint authentication. The URL value must be unique for every thing indexed. We can achieve this for things that don't make a real unique URL available by adding a synthetic identifier to the URL string, i.e. http://example.com?city=Indiana#section_id=1234
type ErrBadData ¶
type ErrBadData struct {
Msg string
}
ErrBadData is an error that can be returned for any bad data when parsing
func NewErrBadData ¶
func NewErrBadData(msg string) *ErrBadData
NewErrBadData is a constructor for creating ErrBadData instances
func (*ErrBadData) Error ¶
func (e *ErrBadData) Error() string
Error is the implementation of the default error interface. Returns the contained message
type ErrMissingConfig ¶
type ErrMissingConfig struct {
Variable string
}
ErrMissingConfig is a simple struct for reporting a missing config variable. It contains a single Variable attribute which should contain the name of the missing variable.
func NewErrMissingConfig ¶
func NewErrMissingConfig(variable string) *ErrMissingConfig
NewErrMissingConfig is a constructor for creating ErrMissingConfig instances
func (*ErrMissingConfig) Error ¶
func (e *ErrMissingConfig) Error() string
Error is the implementation of the default error interface. Returns a simple string reporting the received status
type ErrUnexpectedResponse ¶
type ErrUnexpectedResponse struct {
Status string
}
ErrUnexpectedResponse is a simple struct for reporting unexpected HTTP responses. It contains a single attribute which allows capturing the received HTTP status
func NewErrUnexpectedResponse ¶
func NewErrUnexpectedResponse(status string) *ErrUnexpectedResponse
NewErrUnexpectedResponse is a constructor for creating ErrUnexpectedResponse instances
func (*ErrUnexpectedResponse) Error ¶
func (e *ErrUnexpectedResponse) Error() string
Error is the implementation of the default error interface. Returns a simple string reporting the received status
type Error ¶
type Error string
Error is a type alias we use to create const possible error instances.
type Indexer ¶
type Indexer interface { // UID returns a unique identifier for the data infrastructure indexed by // this Indexer. Good practice for this to be the same as the package name. UID() string // URLS returns the smallest set of URLs required to completely index the // upstream data provider. The returned values might be a single URL for hosts // that publish relatively few things that are all available via a single URL, // or it might be hundreds of thousands of values long for hosts that publish // data entirely on individual URLs. // // This function takes as parameters an instance of the Context interface for // request-scoped values or cancellation, a Client implementation which the // Indexer must use to make any outgoing requests, a delay Duration which // defines the minimum interval between consecutive requests to the // infrastructure. In addition the caller must pass in a channel by which the // function can return data to the caller. This is intended to allow the indexer // implementation to return chunks of data as it goes in order to support // infrastructures with hundreds of thousands of unique URLs to return. URLS(ctx context.Context, client Client, delay time.Duration, out chan<- []URLData) // Fetch is our method that knows how to obtain raw data for an infrastructure, // and is therefore responsible for negotiating any authentication or protocol // weirdness when it comes to fetching data. It takes as parameters an instance // of the Context interface for request-scoped values and cancellation, the url // we want to get data from, a Client object that the indexer must use to // actually make the request. It returns the raw data from the infrastructure // as a slice of bytes for further parsing. Fetch(ctx context.Context, urlStr string, client Client) ([]byte, error) // Parse returns a slice of Thing objects extracted from that data source. This // function takes as parameters a slice of bytes representing the data // collected from the upstream data provider, the URL of the Thing being // indexed and a TimeProvider instance used internally by the fetcher to record // the indexing time of the parser. This is to allow for easier testing. We // separate Parsing from Fetching as we have some systems that provide data to // us without having to be fetched from a remote HTTP source. Parse(rawData []byte, urlStr string, timeProvider TimeProvider) ([]Thing, error) }
Indexer is the main interface for things that know how to index and fetch resources from external data infrastructures and are thus responsible for handling any authentication requirements, parsing the returned data and generating normalized representations of IoT things to the caller. The interface attempts to be agnostic in terms of protocol so an implementing class is free to perform whatever steps required to get the data.
type IndexerBuilder ¶
IndexerBuilder is type definition for the constructor functions that new Indexer must implement.
type Location ¶
type Location struct { Lng float64 `json:"long"` Lat float64 `json:"lat"` Elevation float64 `json:"elevation,omitempty"` }
Location is a data structure which holds an individual Thing or Observations geographic coordinates
type Metadata ¶
Metadata is a data structure containing additional metadata about the Thing. A key requirement for Metadata at the Thing level is that it must contain a 'thingful:Category' property whose value must be a Category.Name as well as a 'thingful:CategoryUID' whose value must me a Category.UID. These two metadata object are required for correctly displaying Things on the thingful.net map. The Metadata object must also contain information about the data visibility - see http://theodi.org/data-spectrum for more info.
type MockTimeProvider ¶
MockTimeProvider is an implementation of the TimeProvider interface that gives back a canned time for all calls to Now(). Intended for use in testing Fetchers.
func (MockTimeProvider) Now ¶
func (t MockTimeProvider) Now() time.Time
Now returns the internal time of the MockTimeProvider.
type Observation ¶
type Observation struct { RecordedAt time.Time `json:"recordedAt"` Location *Location `json:"location"` Val string `json:"value"` }
Observation contains information about where and when the Observation was recorded.
type Provider ¶
type Provider struct { ID string `json:"id"` Name string `json:"name"` Description string `json:"description,omitempty"` URL string `json:"url"` }
Provider is a data structure containing information about the upstream data provider.
type Thing ¶
type Thing struct { // Title is a short descriptive label for the thing Title string `json:"title"` // Description is a long form description about the thing Description string `json:"description"` // IndexedAt is a Time object indicating the timestamp when the thing was // indexed by Thingful IndexedAt time.Time `json:"indexedAt"` // Webpage is a URL to a human intelligible page about the thing. This // doesn't have to be a unique page for the thing as typically one might not // be available. In that case, this could be a link to a page describing the // type of thing, or just a link to the main homepage of the project. Webpage string `json:"webpage"` // DataURL is an embedded data structure which describes the actual data entry point. Endpoint *Endpoint `json:"endpoint"` // Metadata is a data structure containing additional metadata about the Thing. Metadata []Metadata `json:"metadata"` // Location is an embedded data structure which describes location data. Location *Location `json:"location"` // Provider is an embedded data structure which describes the data provider. Provider *Provider `json:"provider"` // Channels are a slice of Channel objects which capture the actual data of // the thing Channels []Channel `json:"channels"` // Visibility indicates generally what type of access is possible to the // Thing using the data spectrum classifications from the ODI: Open, Shared // or Closed Visibility Visibility `json:"visibility"` // ThingType indicates what type is this thing, it is short for thingful:isThingType // the most generic thing type is thingful:ConnectedDevice ThingType string `json:"thingType"` // Category indicates what type this thing belongs to, it is short for // thingful:hasCategory This is mainly used by thingful.net. The value will // be those defined by m3-lite's domain of interest, plus some additionally // defined by thingful Category Category `json:"category"` // DataLicense indicates what of data license this thing has, it is short for // cc:license This could be used to decide what can we do with this thing's // data It takes DataLicense struct which can be manually defined or use // predefined ones DataLicense *DataLicense `json:"license"` // AttributionName indicates name ot the author of the data (if required) // it is short for cc:attributionName AttributionName string `json:"attributionName,omitempty"` // AttributionURL indicates name ot the author of the data (if required) // it is short for cc:attributionURL AttributionURL string `json:"attributionURL,omitempty"` // UpdateInterval indicates how often this resource should get updated (in // seconds) UpdateInterval int `json:"updateInterval,omitempty"` }
Thing is the top level data structure representing an individual thing as indexed on some upstream data provider.
type TimeProvider ¶
type TimeProvider interface { // Now returns the current time as seen by the provider. This could be a fake // time for testing time providers. Now() time.Time }
TimeProvider is an interface that allows us to test time dependent code easily by providing an implementation of this interface that returns a 'canned' time rather than the real time.
func NewMockTimeProvider ¶
func NewMockTimeProvider(t time.Time) TimeProvider
NewMockTimeProvider is a convenience helper that returns a new MockTimeProvider initialized to the specified time.
func NewTimeProvider ¶
func NewTimeProvider() TimeProvider
NewTimeProvider returns an instantiated DefaultTimeProvider instance.
type URLData ¶ added in v0.4.0
type URLData struct { // URLS is a slice of url strings representing a chunk of candidate resource // URLs for the target infrastructure. URLS []string // Err is used to allow the process to signal back an error to the caller. We // package it with the data so we can signal an error at any point. Err error }
URLData is a struct used to send back data from the URLS method. We now send back data asynchronously via a channel so we want to package our data we are actually interested in (i.e. the slice of strings), along with any error that might happen.
type Visibility ¶
type Visibility string
Visibility is a simple type alias for string used to represent an endpoint's visibility.
func (Visibility) String ¶
func (v Visibility) String() string
String is our implementation of Stringer for the Visibility type