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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. The local development environments are using the AWS on preview.

Create a local environment.sh file containing the following:

echo "
export NOTIFY_API_ENVIRONMENT='config.Development'
export ADMIN_CLIENT_SECRET='dev-notify-secret-key'
export ADMIN_CLIENT_USER_NAME='dev-notify-admin'
export AWS_REGION='eu-west-1'
export DANGEROUS_SALT='dev-notify-salt'
export DELIVERY_CLIENT_USER_NAME='dev-notify-delivery'
export DELIVERY_CLIENT_SECRET='dev-notify-secret-key'
export FIRETEXT_API_KEY="secret-fire-text" # This has to be real so speak to a grownup
export FIRETEXT_NUMBER="Firetext"
export NOTIFY_JOB_QUEUE='[unique-to-environment]-notify-jobs-queue' # NOTE unique prefix
export NOTIFICATION_QUEUE_PREFIX='[unique-to-environment]-notification_development' # NOTE unique prefix
export SECRET_KEY='dev-notify-secret-key'
export SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql://localhost/notification_api'
export VERIFY_CODE_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS='no-reply@notify.works'
export NOTIFY_EMAIL_DOMAIN='dev.notify.com'
"> environment.sh

NOTE: the DELIVERY_CLIENT_USER_NAME, DELIVERY_CLIENT_SECRET, NOTIFY_JOB_QUEUE and NOTIFICATION_QUEUE_PREFIX must be the same as the ones in the notifications-delivery app. The SECRET_KEY and DANGEROUS_SALT are the same in notifications-delivery and 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
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