Project of the Multidisciplinary course offered at Politecnico di Milano A.Y.2022/2023.
To run the web application a Python intepreter is needed (version 3.9 or higher). We suggest to use a virtual environment to avoid conflicts with other Python projects.
Once you have installed Python, you can create a virtual environment with the following command:
python -m venv <directory>
You need to activate the virtual environment before installing the required packages:
<directory>\Scripts\activate.bat
To install the required packages run the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
To run the web application server locally, run the following command from this repository's root directory (remember to activate the python environment previously set up):
To create a local database instance you need to download and install the MongoDB server from here.
Run the installer with the default options.
Once the installation is complete, run the application MongoDBCompass.
You'll be exposed to a window like this:
In the New Connection section, fill in the uri section with the following string:
mongodb://localhost:27017
And then click on Connect.
You'll be exposed to a window like this:
Click on the "+" button to create a new database.
It will open a pop-up window like this:
Fill in the Database Name field with the following string:
movies
and the Collection Name field with the following string:
movies_info
Then click on Create Database.
To import the data into the database, you need to click on Add Data and then on Import JSON/CSV file.
As shown below:
It will open a pop-up window where you need to select the file mongodb_dump/movies_movies_info_dump.json from this repository's root content.
Then click on Import.
Now you can run the application using the local database instance with the following command:
flask --app flaskr:create_app(use_local_db=True) run
To run the application using the remote database instance, you can use the following command:
flask --app flaskr run