Environment setup with config-api

Hi Developers,

Writing a script for the application deployment can be very interesting to ensure rapid deployment without forgetting anything.
config-api is a library to help developers to write configuration scripts based on a JSON document.

Implemented features :

• Set system settings.
• Set security settings.
• Enable services.
• Configure namespaces, databases, mapping.
• Export existing configuration.
• All features are exposed with a RESTful API.

This library is focused on IRIS configuration to help applications deployment. So, config-api doesn't import\compile code feature, considering it should be the role of your application installer module or the client registry. config-api could be used with the ZPM client to configure IRIS settings on module deployment, we learn how to combine this library with ZPM in another article.

Install

zpm “install config-api”

If you aren't a ZPM user, download the latest version in XML format with dependencies release page import and compile.

First step

Let’s write a simple configuration JSON document to set a few system settings.

In this first document we :

• Enable journal Freeze on error.
• Set limit journal size to 256 MB.
• Set SystemMode to development.
• Increase the locksiz.
• Increase the LockThreshold.

Set config = {
  "Journal": {                                /* Service class Api.Config.Journal */
       "FreezeOnError":1,
       "FileSizeLimit":256
   },
   "SQL": {                                    /* Service class Api.Config.SQL */
       "LockThreshold" : 2500
   },
   "config": {                                 /* Service class Api.Config.config */
       "locksiz" : 33554432
   },
   "Startup":{                                 /* Service class Api.Config.Startup */
       "SystemMode" : "DEVELOPMENT"
   }
}
Set sc = ##class(Api.Config.Services.Loader).Load(config)

configuration JSON document structure

The first level keys (Journal,SQL,config,Startup) are related to classes in %SYS namespace (using an intermediate class in Api.Config.Services package). It means Journal support all properties available in Config.Journal, SQLall properties in Config.SQL, etc...

Output :

2021-03-31 18:31:54 Start load configuration
2021-03-31 18:31:54 {
  "Journal":{
    "FreezeOnError":1,
            "FileSizeLimit":256
  },
  "SQL":{
    "LockThreshold":2500
  },
  "config":{
    "locksiz":33554432
  },
  "Startup":{
    "SystemMode":"DEVELOPMENT"
  }
}
2021-03-31 18:31:54  * Journal
2021-03-31 18:31:54    + Update Journal ... OK
2021-03-31 18:31:54  * SQL
2021-03-31 18:31:54    + Update SQL ... OK
2021-03-31 18:31:54  * config
2021-03-31 18:31:54    + Update config ... OK
2021-03-31 18:31:54  * Startup
2021-03-31 18:31:54    + Update Startup ... OK

Trick : The Load method is compatible with a string argument, in this case, the string must be a filename to a JSON configuration document (stream object is also permitted).

Create an application environment

In this section, we write a configuration document to create :

• A namespace "MYAPP".
• 4 databases (MYAPPDATA, MYAPPCODE, MYAPPARCHIVE,MYAPPLOG)
• 1 CSP Web Application (/csp/zwebapp).
• 1 REST Web Application (/csp/zrestapp).
• Setup globals mapping.

Set config = {
    "Defaults":{
        "DBDIR" : "${MGRDIR}",
        "WEBAPPDIR" : "${CSPDIR}",
        "DBDATA" : "${DBDIR}myappdata/",
        "DBARCHIVE" : "${DBDIR}myapparchive/",
        "DBCODE" : "${DBDIR}myappcode/",
        "DBLOG" : "${DBDIR}myapplog/"
    },
    "SYS.Databases":{
        "${DBDATA}" : {"ExpansionSize":128},
        "${DBARCHIVE}" : {},
        "${DBCODE}" : {},
        "${DBLOG}" : {}
    },
    "Databases":{
        "MYAPPDATA" : {
            "Directory" : "${DBDATA}"
        },
        "MYAPPCODE" : {
            "Directory" : "${DBCODE}"
        },
        "MYAPPARCHIVE" : {
            "Directory" : "${DBARCHIVE}"
        },
        "MYAPPLOG" : {
            "Directory" : "${DBLOG}"
        }
    },
    "Namespaces":{
        "MYAPP": {
            "Globals":"MYAPPDATA",
            "Routines":"MYAPPCODE"
        }
    },
    "Security.Applications": {
        "/csp/zrestapp": {
            "DispatchClas" : "my.dispatch.class",
            "Namespace" : "MYAPP",
            "Enabled" : "1",
            "AuthEnabled": "64",
            "CookiePath" : "/csp/zrestapp/"
        },
        "/csp/zwebapp": {
            "Path": "${WEBAPPDIR}zwebapp/",
            "Namespace" : "MYAPP",
            "Enabled" : "1",
            "AuthEnabled": "64",
            "CookiePath" : "/csp/zwebapp/"
        }
    },
    "MapGlobals":{
        "MYAPP": [{
            "Name" : "Archive.Data",
            "Database" : "MYAPPARCHIVE"
        },{
            "Name" : "App.Log",
            "Database" : "MYAPPLOG"
        }]
    }
}
Set sc = ##class(Api.Config.Services.Loader).Load(config)

Output :

2021-03-31 20:20:07 Start load configuration
2021-03-31 20:20:07 {
  "SYS.Databases":{
    "/usr/irissys/mgr/myappdata/":{
      "ExpansionSize":128
    },
    "/usr/irissys/mgr/myapparchive/":{
    },
    "/usr/irissys/mgr/myappcode/":{
    },
    "/usr/irissys/mgr/myapplog/":{
    }
  },
  "Databases":{
    "MYAPPDATA":{
      "Directory":"/usr/irissys/mgr/myappdata/"
    },
    "MYAPPCODE":{
      "Directory":"/usr/irissys/mgr/myappcode/"
    },
    "MYAPPARCHIVE":{
      "Directory":"/usr/irissys/mgr/myapparchive/"
    },
    "MYAPPLOG":{
      "Directory":"/usr/irissys/mgr/myapplog/"
    }
  },
  "Namespaces":{
    "MYAPP":{
      "Globals":"MYAPPDATA",
      "Routines":"MYAPPCODE"
    }
  },
  "Security.Applications":{
    "/csp/zrestapp":{
      "DispatchClas":"my.dispatch.class",
      "Namespace":"MYAPP",
      "Enabled":"1",
      "AuthEnabled":"64",
      "CookiePath":"/csp/zrestapp/"
    },
    "/csp/zwebapp":{
      "Path":"/usr/irissys/csp/zwebapp/",
      "Namespace":"MYAPP",
      "Enabled":"1",
      "AuthEnabled":"64",
      "CookiePath":"/csp/zwebapp/"
    }
  },
  "MapGlobals":{
    "MYAPP":[
      {
        "Name":"Archive.Data",
        "Database":"MYAPPARCHIVE"
      },
      {
        "Name":"App.Log",
        "Database":"MYAPPLOG"
      }
    ]
  }
}
2021-03-31 20:20:07  * SYS.Databases
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create /usr/irissys/mgr/myappdata/ ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create /usr/irissys/mgr/myapparchive/ ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create /usr/irissys/mgr/myappcode/ ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create /usr/irissys/mgr/myapplog/ ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07  * Databases
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create MYAPPDATA ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create MYAPPCODE ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create MYAPPARCHIVE ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create MYAPPLOG ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07  * Namespaces
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create MYAPP ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07  * Security.Applications
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create /csp/zrestapp ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create /csp/zwebapp ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07  * MapGlobals
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create MYAPP Archive.Data ... OK
2021-03-31 20:20:07    + Create MYAPP App.Log ... OK

It works! The configuration is successfully loaded.

In the next article, we learn how to use config-api with ZPM to deploy your application.

Thanks for reading.