UT Run

Purpose

The module is used to start UT applications by initializing logging, starting bus and optional broker and then creating and initializing ports, modules and validations.

Usage

In the root of the application in file index.js, the module ut-run should be required and its function 'run' should be called. The file index.js in the root is used to start the application. Typical index.js file looks like:

let run = module.exports = params => require('ut-run').run({
    version: require('./package.json').version,
    root: __dirname,
    resolve: require.resolve,
    params
});

if (require.main === module) run();

It uses ut-run package to start the application and passes the package version to it.

Starting

Starting the application from the command line can be done by passing these command line arguments:

node index {app} {method} {env}

• {app} - specifies the name of sub-folder, where to find the app server to start. Defaults to 'server'.
• {method} - specifies the way of running, defaults to 'debug'. The following methods are available:
  • debug - start the server
  • install - generate configuration for various installation targets
• {env} - specifies the name of configuration file related to the environment. Environments like 'dev', 'prod' and 'test' are commonly used. Defaults to 'dev'.

Using environment variables is also possible

UT_APP=server UT_METHOD=debug UT_ENV=dev node index

Recommended application structure

The recommended filesystem structure, when running only one server looks like this:

application
├───index.js
└───server
    ├──common.js     - common configuration for all environments
    ├──install.json  - configuration applied during installation
    ├──debug.json    - configuration applied during debugging
    ├──index.js      - server startup file
    ├──prod.json     - environment configuration file
    ├──test.json     - environment configuration file
    └──dev.json      - environment configuration file

When multiple servers exists in a single application, usually the folder structure is:

application
├───index.js
└───server
    ├──server1
    │   ├──common.js
    │   ├──index.js
    │   ├──prod.json
    │   ├──test.json
    │   └──dev.json
    └──server2
        ├──common.js
        ├──index.js
        ├──prod.json
        ├──test.json
        └──dev.json

To run specific server in such cases, either set UT_APP=server/server1 or pass as argument node index server/server1

Configuration

ut-run uses ut-config to load or edit the application configuration. For more information consult the README there.

When running an application with ut-run.run in standard (debug) mode you can take advantage of ut-config templating capabilities. In other words everything explained there (including the encrypt/decrypt methods) can be applied when loading configuration.

E.g.

require('ut-run').run({
    context: {
        test: params => {/* do something*/} // or some function or something else
        // ...other context properties
    }
    // ...other run properties
});

Then in all configuration files (no matter whether they are rc, json, etc.) you can use the specified context as '${test(...something)}'

Servers

Server startup file server/index.js is recommended to follow this pattern:

module.exports = function({config}) {
    return [{
        main: require.resolve('ut-telemetry'),
        pkg: require.resolve('ut-telemetry/package.json')
    }, {
        main: require.resolve('ut-module1'),
        pkg: require.resolve('ut-module1/package.json')
    }, {
        // ...
    }, {
        main: require.resolve('moduleN'),
        pkg: require.resolve('moduleN/package.json')
    }].filter(item => item).map(item => [item, ...arguments]);
};

The config parameter holds the environment configuration and can be used to implement more complex logic, when the default logic is not sufficient. It is not recommended to pass this configuration to the packages, as they should only be allowed to access their own section within the configuration.

Usually modules are either reusing some standard functionality require('ut-something') or some application specific functionality require('../impl/something'). See composable microservices for detailed description of module structure and configuration. See standard UnderTree module structure for recommended practical structure for modules.

Working directory

ut-run sets also the working directory for the application. This folder is used for temporary file uploads, log files, etc. and must be writeable. Location of this directory depends on the operating system:

• Windows: C:/ProgramData/SoftwareGroup/UnderTree/{implementation-name}
• Linux: /var/lib/SoftwareGroup/UnderTree/{implementation-name}
• MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/SoftwareGroup/UnderTree/{implementation-name}

Unit tests

There are 2 ways of unit-testing a port:

• specify steps as in integration tests.

require('ut-run').run({
    main: require('..'),
    method: 'unit',
    config: {
        SqlPort: {
            allowQuery: true,
            connection: {
                server: 'utPortTestDbServer',
                database: 'ut-port-sql-test',
                user: 'utPortTestDbUser',
                password: 'utPortTestDbPassword'
            },
            create: {
                user: 'utPortTestDbCreateUser',
                password: 'utPortTestDbCreatePassword'
            }
        }
    },
    params: {
        steps: [
            {
                method: 'SqlPort.query',
                name: 'exec',
                params: {
                    query: 'SELECT 1 AS test',
                    process: 'json'
                },
                result: (result, assert) => {
                    assert.true(Array.isArray(result.dataSet));
                    assert.equals(result.dataSet[0].test, 1);
                }
            }
        ]
    }
});

• Write arbitrary unit tests.

If you don't want to use predefined steps but to write any type of tests in functional or snapshot manner then just omit the steps from the ut-run configuration object like this:

require('ut-run').run({
    main: require('..'),
    method: 'unit',
    config: {
        SqlPort: {
            allowQuery: true,
            connection: {
                server: 'utPortTestDbServer',
                database: 'ut-port-sql-test',
                user: 'utPortTestDbUser',
                password: 'utPortTestDbPassword'
            },
            create: {
                user: 'utPortTestDbCreateUser',
                password: 'utPortTestDbCreatePassword'
            }
        }
    },
    params: { // or omit the entire params property
        // steps: [
        //     {
        //         method: 'SqlPort.query',
        //         name: 'exec',
        //         params: {
        //             query: 'SELECT 1 AS test',
        //             process: 'json'
        //         },
        //         result: (result, assert) => {
        //             assert.true(Array.isArray(result.dataSet));
        //             assert.equals(result.dataSet[0].test, 1);
        //         }
        //     }
        // ]
    }
}).then(async({serviceBus, stop}) => {
    // write arbitrary tests
    // call serviceBus.importMethod to invoke port methods
    // call stop() once done
});

Documentation

Ut-run provides a bin script for automatic port configuration documentation.

In order to generate a configuration documentation for a given port you need to add ut-runand json-schema-to-markdown as devDependencies and ut-doc as doc script in its package.json.

E.g.

{
    "scripts": {
        "doc": "ut-run doc"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "json-schema-to-markdown": "1.1.1",
        "ut-run": "10.17.0"
    }
}

Examples

Look in the doc/examples folder for more examples.