Sapi-NT client for Ruby

This is a simple client library for interacting with Sapi-NT APIs in a Ruby or Rails project. The client is initialised with a reference to the Sapi-NT modelspec for the API, which is used to generate a custom API class using Ruby metaprogramming

N.B. This respository's primary branch name has been updated, please see the #important section below for more information.

Usage

See below for notes on developing and updating this gem.

Installation in a project

To add this library to your Ruby or Rails project, addd this line to your application's Gemfile:

source "https://rubygems.pkg.github.com/epimorphics" do
  gem "sapi-client-ruby", "~> 1.0.0"
end

You may need to authenticate with Github to allow Bundler to access the GitHub Package Registry. To authenticate manually, configure Bundler to use your personal access token, replacing USERNAME with your GitHub username, TOKEN with your personal access token:

bundle config https://rubygems.pkg.github.com/epimorphics USERNAME:TOKEN

Note that in Epimorphics' projects, our standard pattern is to include a Makefile in each project, which typically will include an auth target for authenticating with the GitHub package registry. Thus an equivalent, but simpler, command to use instead of the line above is:

make auth

This will prompt you to provide a Github personal access tokenn (PAT). See notes on the Epimorphics Wiki about creating a PAT.

Command line usage

To aid debugging and exploring a Sapi-NT endpoint, this library has a command-line tool sapi. As required inputs, the tool needs both the base URL for the Sapi-NT API instance (e.g. http://localhost:8080), and the location of the Sapi-NT configuration root file. These can either be passed as command-line arguments, or as environment variables:

sapi -b http://localhost:8080 -s test/fixtures/unified-view/application.yaml inspect

export SAPI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080
export SAPI_SPEC_FILE=test/fixtures/unified-view/application.yaml
sapi inspect

See sapi --help for more details.

Within a project that depends on sapi-client-ruby in the Gemfile, the sapi command should just work. However, it may be helpful to install it outside of a specific project, so that the sapi command may also be used from anywhere. Normally, gem install will normally only install a Rubygem from the rubygems.org directory. You can install this gem from the Github package registry. Please note: You have to add your credentials in line and you cannot use the ~/.gem/credentials with gem install

gem install sapi-client-ruby --version "1.0.0" --source "https://{username}:{token}@rubygems.pkg.github.com/epimorphics"

Then sapi should be on your $PATH:

ian@ian-desktop-2 $ cd $HOME
ian@ian-desktop-2 $ sapi -h
Usage:
  sapi [-b SAPI_BASE_URL] [-s SAPI_SPEC_FILE] inspect
....

Command: inspect

Inspect is used to list the available endpoints for a SAPI instance, together with the Ruby-ified name that can be used to refer to them. E.g:

$ export SAPI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080
$ export SAPI_SPEC_FILE=./test/fixtures/unified-view/application.yaml
$ sapi inspect
authority_list
  /food-businesses/authority
  'List of authorities'
  Views: default
  Resource class: Authority

establishment_list
  /food-businesses/establishment
  'List of establishments'
  Views: default, compact
  Resource class: Establishment

  ....

Commands to invoke an API endpoint

The keys for each of the sections of the inspect command, e.g. authority_list are the names of the Ruby methods that can be invoked on the service object to call that API method. We can also use that method name as a command action in the CLI:

  $ export SAPI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080
  $ export SAPI_SPEC_FILE=./test/fixtures/unified-view/application.yaml
  $ sapi inspection_list
  [{"@id"=>
      "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/establishment/NL7L5Y-547WTK-2N8P8W/inspection/2009-04-22",
    "confidenceScore"=>0,
    "establishment"=>
      {"@id"=>
        "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/establishment/NL7L5Y-547WTK-2N8P8W",
      "authorityEstablishmentID"=>"S10JWMWEST/1",
      "establishmentType"=>
        {"@id"=>"http://data.food.gov.uk/codes/business/establishment/RC-CE"},
      "registrationAuthority"=>
        {"@id"=>"http://data.food.gov.uk/codes/reference-number/authority/4308",
        "prefLabel"=>"North Somerset Council"},
      "tradingName"=>"The Willows"},
    "hygieneScore"=>5,
    "inspectionDateTime"=>"2009-04-22T00:00:00",
    "overallAnnex5Score"=>40,
    "publicationDateTime"=>"2014-06-03T11:13:00",
    "rating"=>
      {"@id"=>
        "http://data.food.gov.uk/vocabularies/def/core/rating-schemes/fhrs-5",
      "label"=>["fhrs-5"],
      "numericValue"=>5,
      "prefLabel"=>["fhrs-5"],
      "ratingScheme"=>
        {"@id"=>
          "http://data.food.gov.uk/vocabularies/def/core/rating-schemes/fhrs"},
      "ratingValue"=>"5"},
    "ratingValue"=>"5",
    "structuralScore"=>5},
  ....

By default, the output will be the list of items in Ruby hash format. To view the raw JSON output, use the -j option:

$ sapi inspection_list -j
{
  "meta": {
    "@id": "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/inspection",
    "comment": "FSA Unified View API",
    "hasFormat": [
      "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/inspection.html",
      "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/inspection.rdf",
      "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/inspection.csv",
      "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/inspection.ttl",
      "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/inspection.geojson"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "licenseName": "",
    "limit": 1000,
    "publisher": "",
    "version": "0.1"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "@id": "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/establishment/NL7L5Y-547WTK-2N8P8W/inspection/2009-04-22",
      "confidenceScore": 0,
      "establishment": {
        "@id": "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/establishment/NL7L5Y-547WTK-2N8P8W",
        "authorityEstablishmentID": "S10JWMWEST/1",
        "establishmentType": {
          "@id": "http://data.food.gov.uk/codes/business/establishment/RC-CE"
        },
        "registrationAuthority": {
          "@id": "http://data.food.gov.uk/codes/reference-number/authority/4308",
          "prefLabel": "North Somerset Council"
        },
        "tradingName": "The Willows"
      },
      "hygieneScore": 5,
      "inspectionDateTime": "2009-04-22T00:00:00",
      "overallAnnex5Score": 40,
      "publicationDateTime": "2014-06-03T11:13:00",
      "rating": {

To limit the number of returned results, set the query limit with the -l parameter:

$ sapi establishment_list -l 1
[{"@id"=>
    "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/establishment/MBTM1R-A8K4VZ-2FJCYJ",
  "authorityEstablishmentID"=>"S10JWMPARK/1",
  "establishmentRegistration"=>
    [{"@id"=>
      "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/establishmentRegistration/MBTM1R-A8K4VZ-2FJCYJ"}],
  "establishmentStatus"=>
    {"@id"=>
      "http://data.food.gov.uk/vocabularies/def/establishment-status/fhrs-included"},
  "establishmentType"=>
...

Where a URL path expects one or more variables, these can be passed by adding more parameters:

$ sapi establishment_item MBTM1R-A8K4VZ-2FJCYJ -j
{
  "meta": {
    "@id": "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/establishment/MBTM1R-A8K4VZ-2FJCYJ",
    "comment": "FSA Unified View API",
    "hasFormat": [...],
    "license": "",
    "licenseName": "",
    "publisher": "",
    "version": "0.1"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "@id": "http://data.food.gov.uk/food-businesses/establishment/MBTM1R-A8K4VZ-2FJCYJ",
      "authorityEstablishmentID": "S10JWMPARK/1",
      "authorityID": "327",

Using Sapi-client from code

Create a new instance of the SapiClient::Application, initialised with the base URL and the location of the root YAML file for the application:

irb(main):001:0> app = SapiClient::Application.new('http://localhost:8080', 'test/fixtures/unified-view/application.yaml')
=> #<SapiClient::Application:0x000055c6ef963500 @base_url="http://localhost:8080",

Create an Instance of the API, which will be decorated with methods corresponding to the API endpoints:

irb(main):002:0> inst = app.instance
=> #<SapiClient::Instance:0x000055c6ef900180>
irb(main):003:0> inst.public_methods
=> [:inspection_list, :inspection_list_json, :inspection_list_spec,
    :establishment_list, :establishment_list_json, ...

The *_json variant of the method will return the raw JSON output. The *_spec variant will return the specification of the API endpoint (including the name, description, etc), while the unadorned version will return the item as a Ruby object.

Wrapper classes

When calling the *_json methods, the return value is just JSON, expressed as a Ruby Hash. Hash presents a fairly low-level API to interact with the data, so when calling the main item-getting API methods, the return value will be wrapped via some facade class. The base facade is SapiClient::SapiResource. SapiResource has methods to:

• traverse paths through the structure (e.g. establishment.authority.name)
• provide convenience access to common fields, e.g. uri
• map Ruby method calls to fields in the underlying JSON (e.g. a resource with a name property in JSON will respond to a .name() method call)
• pick the best option from a list of language-tagged literals, given a preferred language.

SapiResource is designed to function well as a base class for more domain-specific facade classes, such as Establishment for establishment resources.

To associate the values of an endpoint with a facade class, there are a number of options:

• a class may be be passed via the wrapper option when invoking an API endpoint method. E.g: myEndpoint.establishment_list(_limit: 1, wrapper: MyClass)
• if no explicit wrapper option is available, the endpoint will look for a class that has the same name as the resource-type for the endpoint (e.g. an establishments endpoint will have a resource type of :Establishment, which will then look for an Establishment class in Ruby's root namespace)
• if no matching resource-type class can be found, SapiClient::SapiResource will be used as a default.

Options

The endpoint methods that actually call the endpoint (i.e. not _spec) take a hash of options, e.g. the query limit:

inst.inspection_list(_limit: 10)

Where an API URL takes a path parameter, also pass this using the options:

inst.establishment_item(id: 'MBTM1R-A8K4VZ-2FJCYJ')

Pagination

It is convenient to have a proxy-pattern object that denotes a collection of value from the endpoint. This proxy can change its parameters, such as the limit or offset into the list of values, sort parameter, etc, before being manifested as an actual set of endpoint items by invoking the API. This pattern has been designed to work comfortably with pagination gems such as Pagy

Example:

instance = ....
endpoint_values =
  SapiClient::EndpointValues.new(instance, :establishment_list)
  .limit(25)
  .offset(400)
  .sort('tradingName')
collection = endpoint_values.to_a

Instrumentation through ActiveSupport::Notification

To assist with adding Prometheus monitoring of an application's interaction with a remote SapiNT endpoint, this client library will emit ActiveSupport Notification events, assuming it's being run in a Rails environment. These events can be subscribed to, and used to add data to Prometheus client gauges.

The events emitted are:

• response.sapi_nt which will record normal responses, including response code
• connection_failure.sapi_nt which will record events where Faraday was unable to connect to the remote endpoint
• service_exception.sapi_nt which records other errors states, not including connection failure

Developer notes

Important

If you have already cloned the repository to your local instance, you will need to run the following commands to update the primary branch name:

git branch -m master main
git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main
git remote set-head origin -a

Otherwise , after checking out the repo, run make setup to install dependencies. Then, run make test to run the tests. You can also run make console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Code standards

Rubocop should always return zero warnings. Run make lint to run RuboCop.

Tests

Run the test suite with make test. Ideally, the test coverage reported by Minitest should not go down as new code is added.

Publishing

This gem is published to the GitHub Package Registry

To publish a new version of this gem:

• make the required changes, and have the PR peer-reviewed by at least one other person
• increment the version number lib/sapi_client/version.rb according to whether this is a major, minor or fix change
• update the CHANGELOG.md
• ensure that make test and make lint are both free of errors
• build the gem and push it to the registry with make publish

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/epimorphics/sapi-client-ruby. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Sapi::Client::Ruby project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.