Campus Routing

indoorgraphs is a node package that enables (client-side) routing in your mapping application.

• Attribute-based queries (accessible): Graph nodes and edges can be assigned attributes which can then be used to determine accessible routes.
• Client-side: What is unique about the routing functionality is that it can be performed client-side rather than server-side using a routing engine. This eliminates the cost and maintenance of running a routing server. The routing graphs can be stored as simple JSON files and retrieved from a web server at runtime.

Documentation

The documentation is divided into several sections:

• Main Concepts
• Class and methods
• Examples

How to use this package?

From a Nodejs environment

To use this package, you will need to install Nodejs and the indoorgraphs package. You can install Nodejs from the official Nodejs website (https://nodejs.org/en), and the indoorgraphs package can be installed using npm:

npm install indoorgraphs

The package and the previously created graph can then be imported into a JavaScript environment:

// import indoorgraphs package
const { IndoorGraphs } = require("indoorgraphs");

// import routing graph
const data = require("./graph.json")

// instantiate a graph object and pass the routing data, routing options and a filter
const graph = new IndoorGraphs(data)

// calculate shortest path
const [coordinates, path, instructions, error] = graph.getRoute('EG_1', 'EG_2');

If no routing options and filters are specified, the corresponding objects remain empty (see { routingOptions: {}, filter: {} }). If the attribute names do not match attributes in the graph, then they are ignored.

From a flutter environment

See here

From Indoorgraphs backend

The indoorgraphs backend comes with a REST API and a redis database that stores the graphs in memory for fast access.

1. Setup server

Clone the indoorgraphs-backend repository on your local machine.

Place all graphs that you want to query in src/graphs/

Start api and redis database: docker compose up -d

Test if API is running using curl: curl localhost:80

Add graphs to database: docker exec -it rest-api sh -> sh initRedis.sh -> exit

You can check if the graphs got successfully added to the database by exec'in into the container, open the redis cli and run a query:

docker exec -it redis sh
redis-cli
get <name of graph file (without .json), e.g. get test>
exit

To shutdown both containers and delete the images run: docker compose down --rmi local

2. Send queries

Use the following schema for the body of the POST request

{
  "startNode": "UG_t3",
  "destNode": "UG_t6",
  "graphName": "<graphname without .json>",
  "routingOptions": {
      "pathOptions": {},
      "doorOptions": {},
      "preferElevator": false
  }
}

curl

curl --location --request GET 'localhost:80/api/queries' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
  "startNode": "UG_t3",
  "destNode": "UG_t6",
  "graphName": "routingFive",
  "graph": {"nodes":{"OD_t1":{"coordinates":[6.9399486133311035,50.943612032886136],"id":"OD_t1","type":"Node","level":"OD","adjacentNodes":["OD_t2"]},"OD_t2":{"coordinates":[6.927975232288623,50.935336961320644],"id":"OD_t2","type":"Node","level":"OD","adjacentNodes":["OD_t1"]}},"pathAttributes":{}}
}'

Nodejs axios

const axios = require('axios');
let data = JSON.stringify({
  "startNode": "UG_t3",
  "destNode": "UG_t6",
  "graphName": "routingFive",
  "routingOptions": {
    "pathOptions": {},
    "doorOptions": {},
    "preferElevator": false
  }
});

let config = {
  method: 'get',
  url: 'localhost:80/api/queries',
  headers: { 
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  data: data
};

axios.request(config)
.then((response) => {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});