README

Backend for upda - Update Dashboard in Go.

The main git repository is hosted at https://git.myservermanager.com/varakh/upda. Other repositories are mirrors and pull requests, issues, and planning are managed there.

Contributions are very welcome!

Official documentation is hosted in a separate git repository.

Development & contribution

• Pay attention to make checkstyle (uses go vet ./...); pipeline fails if issues are detected.
• Each entity has its own repository
• Each entity is only used in repository and service (otherwise, mapping happens)
• Presenter layer is constructed from the entity, e.g., in REST responses and mapped
• No entity is directly returned in any REST response
• All log calls should be handled by zap.L()
• Configuration is bootstrapped via separated struct types which are given to the service which need them
• Error handling
  • Always throw an error with NewServiceError for repositories, services and handlers
  • Always throw an error wrapping the cause with fmt.Errorf
  • Forward/bubble up the error directly, when original error is already a NewServiceError (most likely internal calls)
  • Always abort handler chain with AbortWithError
  • Utils can throw any error
  • Repositories, handlers and services should always properly return error including any init-like function ( best to avoid them and call in newXXX). Do not abort with Fatalf or similar
  • log.Fatalf or zap.L().Fatal is allowed in environment.go or app.go
• Look into the _doc/ folder for OpenAPI specification and a Postman Collection.
• Consider reading Effective Go
• Consider reading 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Getting started

Ensure to set the following environment variables for proper debug logs during development

DEVELOPMENT=true
LOGGING_ENCODING=console
LOGGING_LEVEL=debug

1. Run make clean dependencies to fetch dependencies
2. Start git.myservermanager.com/varakh/upda/cmd/server (or cli) as Go application and ensure to have required environment variables set

If you like to test with PSQL and/or REDIS for task locking, here are some useful docker commands to have containers up and running quickly. Set necessary environment variables properly.

# postgres
docker run --rm --name=upda-db \
  -p 5432:5432 \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=upda \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=upda \
  -e POSTGRES_DB=upda \
  postgres:16-alpine
  
# redis
docker run --rm --name some-redis \
  -p 6379:6379 \
  redis redis-server --save 60 1 --loglevel warning

Windows hints

On Windows, you need a valid gcc, e.g., https://jmeubank.github.io/tdm-gcc/download/ and add the \bin folder to your path.

For any go command you run, ensure that your PATH has the gcc binary and that you add CGO_ENABLED=1 as environment.

Using the lockService correctly

The lockService can be used to lock resources. This works in-memory and also in a distributed fashion with REDIS.

Ensure to provide proper locking options when using, although in-memory ignores those.

Example:

# invoked from an endpoint
context := c.Request.Context()

var err error
var lock appLock

if lock, err = h.lockService.lockWithOptions(context, "TEST-LOCK", withAppLockOptionExpiry(5*time.Minute), withAppLockOptionInfiniteRetries(), withAppLockOptionRetryDelay(5*time.Second)); err != nil {
    _ = c.AbortWithError(errToHttpStatus(err), err)
    return
}
# defer to avoid leakage
defer func(lock appLock) {
    _ = lock.unlock(context)
}(lock)

# simulate long running task
time.Sleep(20 * time.Second)

Release

Releases are handled by the SCM platform and pipeline. Creating a new git tag, creates a new release in the SCM platform, uploads produced artifacts to that release and publishes docker images automatically. Before doing so, please ensure that the commit on master has the correct version settings and has been built successfully:

• Adapt constants_app.go and change Version to the correct version number
• Adapt app.go and change version to the correct version number (CLI)
• Adapt CHANGELOG.md to reflect changes and ensure a date is properly set in the header, also add a reference link in footer (link to scm git tag source)
• Adapt api.yaml: version attribute must reflect the to be released version
• Adapt env: VERSION_* in .forgejo/workflows/release.yaml

After the release has been created, ensure to change the following settings for the next development cycle:

• Adapt constants_app.go and change Version to the next version number
• Adapt app.go and change version to the next version number (CLI)
• Adapt CHANGELOG.md and add an UNRELEASED section
• Adapt api.yaml: version attribute must reflect the next version number
• Adapt env: VERSION_* in .forgejo/workflows/release.yaml to next version number