BeNeutral

A tool to calculate CO2 emitted by a house, advise how to reduce it, and encourages to offset the rest by planting trees.

http://www.beNeutral.eu

Community

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How to start the BeNeutral application

1. You will need IBM Cloudant database credentials. The app config file expects them as the environment variables.

    export IBM_DB_URL=your-cloudant-db-url
    export IBM_IAM_KEY=your-ibm-iam-key
   

2. To run the application, you can either build and run it in your env or run it in a container. Either way, the BeNeutral banner in the log indicates the server is up.

   • Un-containerized app server
     1. Run mvn package to build the application
     2. Start application with java -jar target/be-neutral-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server config.yml
   • Run the server in a docker container, using the latest image from the master branch, published to dockerhub:
     docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 8081:8081 -e IBM_IAM_KEY -e IBM_DB_URL marihak/be-neutral

3. To check that the application is running enter url http://localhost:8080/api/v1/

4. You can find api documentation at http://localhost:8080/api/v1/swagger

5. The front page can be found under http://localhost:8080/

Health Check

To see your applications health enter url http://localhost:8081/healthcheck

Tests

• mvn test - runs unit tests
• mvn verify - runs unit and integration tests
• mvn clean package -DskipTests - re-builds without tests