gungnir
(pronounced “GUNG-neer”)
Summary
Gungnir provides an API to get information about a device, based upon events
found in the database. It can also return the events themselves, which are
WRP Messages.
For more information on how Gungnir fits into codex, check out the codex README.
Table of Contents
Code of Conduct
This project and everyone participating in it are governed by the XMiDT Code Of Conduct.
By participating, you agree to this Code.
Details
Gungnir has two endpoints currently:
/device/{deviceID}/events
provides a list of events for the specified
device id, ordered in descending order by record birth date
. The list of
events are a list of WRP messages extended to also include the BirthDate
of
the record.
/device/{deviceID}/status
provides the status of the device according to
the most recent birth date
. The values it returns are:
- the device id
- the state
- the record's birth date
- the current time
- the reason the device went offline most recently
When Gungnir received a request to either endpoint, it first validates that
the request is authorized. This authorization is configurable. Then, Gungnir
gets records for that device id, limited by a configurable max number of
records but sorted in descending order by birth date
. Gungnir checks how the
record is encrypted, if at all, and decrypts it. Then it decodes the message
into a struct so that it can parse the information as necessary before returning
the information the consumer asked for.
The events are stored in the database as MsgPack,
and gungnir uses ugorji's implementation to
decode them.
Build
Source
In order to build from the source, you need a working Go environment with
version 1.11 or greater. Find more information on the Go website.
You can directly use go get
to put the Gungnir binary into your GOPATH
:
GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/xmidt-org/gungnir
You can also clone the repository yourself and build using make:
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/xmidt-org
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/xmidt-org
git clone git@github.com:xmidt-org/gungnir.git
cd gungnir
make build
Makefile
The Makefile has the following options you may find helpful:
make build
: builds the Gungnir binary
make docker
: builds a docker image for Gungnir, making sure to get all
dependencies
make local-docker
: builds a docker image for Gungnir with the assumption
that the dependencies can be found already
make it
: runs make docker
, then deploys Gungnir and a cockroachdb
database into docker.
make test
: runs unit tests with coverage for Gungnir
make clean
: deletes previously-built binaries and object files
RPM
First have a local clone of the source and go into the root directory of the
repository. Then use rpkg to build the rpm:
rpkg srpm --spec <repo location>/<spec file location in repo>
rpkg -C <repo location>/.config/rpkg.conf sources --outdir <repo location>'
Docker
The docker image can be built either with the Makefile or by running a docker
command. Either option requires first getting the source code.
See Makefile on specifics of how to build the image that way.
For running a command, either you can run docker build
after getting all
dependencies, or make the command fetch the dependencies. If you don't want to
get the dependencies, run the following command:
docker build -t gungnir:local -f deploy/Dockerfile .
If you want to get the dependencies then build, run the following commands:
GO111MODULE=on go mod vendor
docker build -t gungnir:local -f deploy/Dockerfile.local .
For either command, if you want the tag to be a version instead of local
,
then replace local
in the docker build
command.
Kubernetes
WIP. TODO: add info
Deploy
For deploying on Docker or in Kubernetes, refer to the deploy README.
For running locally, ensure you have the binary built. If it's in
your GOPATH
, run:
gungnir
If the binary is in your current folder, run:
./gungnir
Contributing
Refer to CONTRIBUTING.md.