opg-use-my-lpa

OPG Use My LPA: Managed by opg-org-infra & Terraform

Setup

Clone the following repositories into the same base directory:

• https://github.com/ministryofjustice/opg-use-an-lpa
• https://github.com/ministryofjustice/opg-data-lpa
• https://github.com/ministryofjustice/opg-data-lpa-codes

Additionally, work related to Use is done in:

• https://github.com/ministryofjustice/opg-opg-data-lpa-instructions-preferences

All commands assume a working directory of opg-use-my-lpa.

Add a profile named ual-dev to your ~/.aws/config file (speak to your team for the configuration details).

To maintain repo standards and avoid commiting secrets install pre-commit and then initialize with:

pre-commit install

Makefile

A Makefile is maintained that aliases the most useful docker-compose commands.

To build the service and it's dependencies

make build

To start the service and its dependencies

make up # start ual and all dependencies then run seeding of local data

To stop the service and its dependencies (ordering is important so that the networks are removed last)

make down # bring down everything including the lpa endpoint

There are other make file targets for common operations such as

logs to follow docker-compose logs for the service seed to rerun seeding scripts to put or reset fixture data destroy to stop the service and remove all images

Build images with no cache option. Run this regularly to keep base docker images up to date, as these include potential security fixes.

make rebuild [container name]

Note: this can take several minutes to run.

If you plan on developing the application i:e in most cases, you should also enable development mode.

Before enabling development mode for the first time, run

make composer_install

then run:

make development_mode

Development mode is essential to run the stack locally (unless SSL is setup) as without it sessions do not function. You will be unable to login and all CSRF protected forms will be broken.

The Viewer service will be available via http://localhost:9001/home

The Actor service will be available via http://localhost:9002/home

The API service will be available via http://localhost:9010

Tests

To run all the unit tests (the command for viewer-app and actor-app will run exactly the same suite of unit tests in the front service)

make unit_test

# or, seperately
make unit_test_viewer_app
make unit_test_actor_app
make unit_test_javascript
make unit_test_api_app

Functional (Behat) test

To run the Behat smoke tests

make smoke_tests

There other some other utility scripts in the composer.json for example

cd service-api/app
composer run psalm

# to pass arguments to a composer script start with a double hyphen "--".
composer run int-test -- --verbose

Updating composer dependencies

Composer install is run when the app container is built, and on a standard docker-compose up.

It can also be run independently with:

# Arbitrary commands such as "require author/package" or "remove author/package"
make run_api_composer -- [composer command]
make run_front_composer -- [composer command]

# explicit install or update
make run_api_composer_install
make run_api_composer_update

make run_front_composer_install
make run_front_composer_update

Troubleshooting

There are occasions when your local dev environment doesn't quite act as it should. Feel free to add further troubleshooting steps here.

Here are some common problems we've come across:

I cannot login with the seeded user

Its possible seeding of Use an LPA was not successful. make sure all docker compose services are running and have settled first, then try again. run the following command:

make seed

then try again

I cannot add LPA's locally, which are in the seeded data set

Ensure that the api-gateway container is running

docker ps | grep opg-use-an-lpa-codes-gateway

If this is not running, you should re-run

make up_all

if that doesn't work try running

make update_mock