relationer

Relationer

This project provides a real-time interface to view highly-customisable relationships (graph relationships) between people. The relationer server produces messages which are sent to a centralised message broker to be consumend by you on either: the relationer cli recieving point, provided frontend, or your own customisable app.

Get Started

Using realtioner with golang? try the golang client

Binary Packages

All the final binaries are under the ./cmd folder:

• ./cmd/relationer-server - the relationer server binary
• ./cmd/relationer - the relationer cli binary

Relationer Server Binary:

Flags:

Usage of relationer-server:
  -backup
        use a backup datastore (default true)
  -bk-addr string
        address of the broker (default "amqp://guest:guest@rabbitmq:5672")
  -cache-addr string
        address of the cache (default "redis:6379")
  -db-addr string
        dns of the database (default "postgres://postgres:postgres@database/relationer?sslmode=disable")
  -serv-addr string
        address of the server (default ":8080")

The relationer server can start with or without a persistent data-store (postgres) controlled via the -backup flag. When true the -db-addr flag will be used to connect to the postgres instance where any previous data will be loaded on the new relationer server and any new data will be added to the postgres instance.

Relationer Cli Binary:

Usage:

USAGE
  relationer is a cli tool to interact with the relationer server

SUBCOMMANDS
  add-person      Create a user (node)
  add-friendship  Create a friendship (edge) uni-directional from id1 -> id2
  get-depth       Get depth between 2 nodes
  get-friendship  Get the relationships of a person
  get-person      Get the person with provided id
  listen          Listen for events

FLAGS
  -p http://localhost:8080  api enpoint for relationer
  -v=false                  log verbose output

Quickstart

Must already have postgres instance running

Must already have redis instance running

Must already have rabbitmq instance running

Have $GOPATH in yout path

Build the relationer project by cloning the repo then run:

$ go install ./cmd/...

Relationer Server (persistent store)

$ relationer-server -bk-addr rabbitmq-url -cache-addr redis-url -db-addr postgres-dsn
2022/05/22 13:02:11 server starting on :8080 ...

To kill the server Ctrl-C

Relationer Cli

If you have a relationer server running, you can now interface with it via the relationer cli binary and all its sub commands.

Create two people and have them linked via a mutual friendship:

$ relationer -v add-person Lambels
created person with id 1 at 0000-00-00 00:00:00 +0000 UTC OK
Process took x ms
$ relationer -v add-person Lambili
created person with id 2 at 0000-00-00 00:00:00 +0000 UTC OK
Process took x ms
$ relationer -v add-friendship -mutual 1 2
created friendship between 1 and 2 OK
created friendship between 2 and 1 OK
Process took x ms

Start an event listener:

The relationer cli event listener listens to messages from the relationer server. You can specify the events you want to listen to via: (rabbitmq routing keys)

• relationer -v listen person.created listen for created persons
• relationer -v listen person.deleted listen for deleted persons
• relationer -v listen friendship.created listen for created friendships
• relationer -v listen person.created person.deleted listen for created or deleted persons
• relationer -v listen -all listen for all events ("#" routing key)

Example running in the background of the commands above:

$ relationer -v listen -all
(re)dial to amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672
(re)dial to amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672
subscribed and ready to recieve...
[New Person] Id: 1 | Name: Lambels | Created At: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
[New Person] Id: 2 | Name: Lambili | Created At: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
[New Friendship] Person 1: 1 with Person 2: 2
[New Friendship] Person 1: 2 with Person 2: 1

Commands: cli -> relationer and server -> relationer-server

Get Started (Docker)

Clone the repo and have docker installed on your machine.

Run in the root of the project directory:

docker-compose up --build

When the relationer container is up you should have a accessable relationer server on :8080 and a rabbitmq instance on :5672 with the management server on :15672

You can now interact with this relationer server through convensional means such as the relationer binary or golang client.