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What is Pelias?

Pelias is a search engine for places worldwide, powered by open data. It turns addresses and place names into geographic coordinates, and turns geographic coordinates into places and addresses. With Pelias, you’re able to turn your users’ place searches into actionable geodata and transform your geodata into real places.

We think open data, open source, and open strategy win over proprietary solutions at any part of the stack and we want to ensure the services we offer are in line with that vision. We believe that an open geocoder improves over the long-term only if the community can incorporate truly representative local knowledge.

Pelias Microservice Wrapper

Overview

Module that provides a convenience wrapper for calling Pelias microservices such as Placeholder or Point-in-Polygon Service over HTTP GET.

Installation

$ npm install pelias-microservice-wrapper

NPM Module

The pelias-microservice-wrapper npm module can be found here:

https://npmjs.org/package/pelias-microservice-wrapper

Usage

This module is primarily used in the Pelias API to call microservices. To add support for a microservice in the API, define a class that derives from ServiceConfiguration, override any methods, and inject into a service instance.

The ServiceConfiguration constructor accepts a string service name (returned by getName() and an object containing the three optional properties:

property	required	default	description
baseUrl	no	none	the base URL used for contacting a service, causes isEnabled() to return false when an empty string
timeout	no	1000	the number of milliseconds a request should wait for a server response before timing out
retries	no	3	the number of retries to attempt before returning an error

Requests are logged at the debug level when enabled in pelias-config.

Example

const DemoServiceConfig = class extends ServiceConfiguration {
  constructor(configBlob) {
    super('demo microservice', configBlob);
  }
  getUrl(req) {
    return this.baseUrl + '/demo';
  }
  getParameters(req) {
    return {
      size: req.clean.size,
      offset: 0
    };
  }
  getHeaders(req) {
    return {
      'some-header': req.clean.some_header
    };
  }
};

const demoService = serviceWrapper(new DemoServiceConfig({
  url: 'http://localhost:1234'
}));

const req = {
  size: 15,
  some_header: 'header value'
};

// pseudocode tests for illustration purposes
demoService.getUrl() === 'http://localhost:1234/demo';

demoService.isEnabled() === true

demoService.getParameters(req) === {
  size: 15,
  offset: 0
};

demoService.getHeaders(req) === {
  some_header: 'header value'
};

Methods

method	override?	returns	description
getName	not recommended	value passed to constructor	returns the name of the service
getBaseUrl	not recommended	url property of configuration passed to constructor	base URL of microservice
isEnabled	not recommended	true if baseUrl is a non-empty string	helper method for determining if the service should be considered enabled
getUrl	yes	value of getBaseUrl unless overridden	used for appending other value to the baseUrl (but not request parameters)
getParameters	yes	{} unless overridden	any request parameters to pass to the microservice
getHeaders	yes	{} unless overridden	any request headers to pass to the microservice
getTimeout	not recommended	1000 or value passed to constructor	how long a request should wait for a server response before timing out
getRetries	not recommended	3 or value passed to constructor	how many attempts should be made before returning an error

Recommended ServiceConfiguration Method Overrides

The following methods can be overridden in an implementation of ServiceConfiguration:

method	default return	description
getUrl	value of getBaseUrl	used for appending other value to the baseUrl (but not request parameters)
getParameters	{}	any request parameters to pass to the microservice
getHeaders	{}	any request headers to pass to the microservice

It is not recommended to override any other methods.