notifications-api/README.md

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# notifications-api
Notifications api
Application for the notification api.

Read and write notifications/status queue.
Get and update notification status.

## Setting Up

```
mkvirtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3 notifications-api
```

Creating the environment.sh file. Replace [unique-to-environment] with your something unique to the environment. Your AWS credentials should be set up for notify-tools (the development/CI AWS account).

Create a local environment.sh file containing the following:

```
echo "
export SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI='postgresql://localhost/notification_api'
export SECRET_KEY='secret-key'
export DANGEROUS_SALT='dangerous-salt'
export NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT="development"
export ADMIN_CLIENT_SECRET='notify-secret-key'
export ADMIN_BASE_URL='http://localhost:6012'
export FROM_NUMBER='development'
export MMG_URL="https://api.mmg.co.uk/json/api.php"
export MMG_API_KEY='MMG_API_KEY'
export LOADTESTING_API_KEY="FIRETEXT_SIMULATION_KEY"
export FIRETEXT_API_KEY="FIRETEXT_ACTUAL_KEY"
export STATSD_PREFIX="FAKE_PREFIX"
export NOTIFICATION_QUEUE_PREFIX="PREFIX-TO-IDENTIFY-SQS-QUEUE"
"> environment.sh
```

NOTE: The SECRET_KEY and DANGEROUS_SALT should match those in the [notifications-admin](https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin) app.

NOTE:  Also note the  unique prefix for the queue names. This prevents clashing with others queues in shared amazon environment and using a prefix enables filtering by queue name in the SQS interface.



##  To run the application

You need to run the api application and a local celery instance.

There are two run scripts for running all the necessary parts.

```
scripts/run_app.sh
```

```
scripts/run_celery.sh
```

```
scripts/run_celery_beat.sh
```



##  To test the application

First, ensure that `scripts/boostrap.sh` has been run, as it creates the test database.

Then simply run

```
make test
```

That will run pep8 for code analysis and our unit test suite. If you wish to run our functional tests, instructions can be found in the
[notifications-functional-test](https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-functional-test) repository.



## To remove functional test data

NOTE: There is assumption that both the server name prefix and user name prefix are followed by a uuid.
The script will search for all services/users with that prefix and only remove it if the prefix is followed by a uuid otherwise it will be skipped.

Locally
```
python application.py purge_functional_test_data -u <functional tests user name prefix> # Remove the user and associated services.
```

On the server
```
python server_commands.py purge_functional_test_data -u <functional tests user name prefix> # Remove the user and associated services.
```