Openinghours

Platform to manager opening hours for services and their channels.

Installation

Create config file

Copy the .env.example to .env and

Fill in the MySQL (or MariaDb) database credentials.
Fill in the VESTA API configuration (make sure it's not base64 encoded).
Fill in the VESTA_SOURCE_URL for the links to vesta services (use a ${identifier} placeholder).
Fill in the Queue driver, for production environments use redis, beanstalkd or SQS. DO NOT use sync as a queue, rather use database in testing environments (https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/queues).
Fill in the base URI that is used to build the LOD version of the openinghours triple (BASE_URI).
Fill in the base URI that is used to link to a data representation of something (DATA_REPRESENTATION_URI).
Fill in the SPARQL configuration to read data from.
Fill in the SPARQL configuration to write data to, don't forget the name of the graph and the specific endpoint of the sparql-graph-crud-auth, which is used to write (possibly) larger amounts of triples to.
Mails are sent through SMTP.
Set session driver to database (anything but file).
Set 1 worker in supervisor (https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/queues#supervisor-configuration) to handle the writes to the different systems (VESTA, LOD). Only using 1 will make sure no dirty read/writes will happen to the SPARQL endpoint, you can use supervisor or a custom system that keeps a Laravel worker up and running. Make sure that the worker is restarted after an update on the software (php artisan queue:restart).

Build the back & front-end

Build the back & front-end by running following commands:

composer install
./artisan migrate
./artisan db:seed
./artisan passport:keys
npm install
gulp build

The ./artisan db:seed command will generate an admin user with a random generated password that's outputted to the command line, the default email is [email protected].

Maintenance and deployment

When updating the software the commands you'll want to run are the following:

composer install
composer update
gulp build
php artisan migrate
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan queue:restart

Caveat: Keep an eye out for the johngrogg/ics-parser releases, currently this dependency is set to dev-master, because the branch contains an implementation that we use in order to provide correct API responses. This is an actively maintained library so (patch) releases are in play.

Fetch services

In order to fetch a list of services from the SPARQL endpoint you'll need to configure the SPARQL endpoint (READ). You can then run the following command:

php artisan openinghours:fetch-services

This will fill the services table with the identifiers, labels of the available services from the SPARQL endpoint.

Fetch recreatex

In order to add openinghours from the Recreatex application to services that are present in the Recreatex application, you can command below, after configuring the Recreatex variables in the .env file.

This command will fetch services that are available in the application and have a recreatex source, a property fetched during the retrieval of services from the SPARQL endpoint using the fetch-services command.

The recreatex command will fetch services using the configured recreatex endpoint and shop-id and will do so, year by year, currently configured to fetch data from 2017 until 2020. These events will be added to the channel "Infrastructuur".

Because Recreatex doesn't save it's events in a calendar standard, rather it saves every single day as an array of 2 events (maximum).

This would result in 365 events per channel, which is far from optimal to work with without additional tweaking, therefore a small algorithm was written that parses weekly RRULEs from the yearly event list.

php artisan openinghours:fetch-recreatex

Note: this will import openinghours from 2017 up until 2020, make sure you refresh the application in the browser after fetching the recreatex openinghours, because the front-end caches responses by default.

Email

Email is now done through SMTP

VESTA

Output can be written to VESTA on a weekly basis by using a predefined command. This will write a weekschedule to VESTA starting on monday of the week that the timestamp of execution falls in. e.g. If it's called friday at 5PM, the output will contain the schedule monday-sunday of that week that friday falls into. Scheduling it monday mornings will produce a schedule for that entire week.

php artisan openinghours:update-vesta

Usage

Queries - No APIB or Swagger available.

The serviceUri parameter is required and must be the URI of a service.
The channel parameter is optional and must be the name of a specific channel within the given service.
The format is optional and by default will return a JSON result, other formats can be: html, text, json-ld.