586-backend

Backend API server for issue tracking app written in C++. Create projects, workers, and tasks and assign things to things.

Frontend Repository

Application

Explanation of Project Requirements

Libraries

ORM: ODB. Uses a separate compiler to generate code from annotated classes.

DI: Boost-DI

HTTP: CPP Rest SDK. Routing is done with a custom type-based parser.

JSON: JSON for Modern C++

JWT: JWT-CPP

Building

Requirements

• GCC 8 or 9
• Conan
• CMake 3.7
• ODB 2.5.0 beta

Steps

• mkdir build && cd build
• conan install .. --build=missing
• cmake .. or cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
• make

If CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is Debug, a separate tests executable will be generated, and both executables will be address-sanitized.

Configuring

Configuration is done with json files. mvc expects config.json and tests expects config.tests.json.

Key	Example	Function
http_listen_addr	http://0.0.0.0:8001
sqlite_db_path	db.sqlite
auth_issuer	https://dev-ztmxpnax.auth0.com/
auth_default_role	default	Users other than auth_bootstrap_admin_user are given this role upon FIRST login. If it does not exist, it will be automatically generated with no permissions.
auth_admin_role	administrator	This role is given to auth_bootstrap_admin_user upon any login. If it does not exist, it will be automatically generated with full permissions.
auth_bootstrap_admin_user	oath2|xxxx
auth_public_key		Auth0 public key used to verify JWTs.
auth_jwt_leeway_secs	60	Seconds of leeway in JWT expiry checks.

Additionally, any key can be loaded from a separate file by locating the key under load_from_files, e.g. "load_from_files" : { "auth_public_key": "auth.pub"}.