Koop provides a flexible server for exposing 3rd party data sources (APIs) as both Feature Services and other data formats (GeoJSON). This project is meant to provide a simple / plugable platform for experimenting with various data within the ArcGIS platform. Koop aims to provide a platform for accessing any API and making it easy to consume within the realm of Esri's geospatial web products.

The following dependencies are needed in order to run Koop on your local machine / server:

• Node.js (version > 0.10.0)
• PostgreSQL / PostGIS - In PostgreSQL 9.3 you can create a PostGIS enabled database by executing CREATE EXTENSION postgis; inside an existing database.

1. clone the repo git clone [email protected]:Esri/koop.git
2. enter the koop project directory cd koop
3. install the node.js dependencies npm install

1. install xquartz - https://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
2. install cairo brew install cairo
3. Update the pkgconfig path export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig
4. try again to install node.js dependencies npm install

Koop uses a config called /config/local.js to setup its database connection and data directories for caching data.

1. copy the example config file cp config/local.js.example config/local.js
2. edit config/local.js for your environment.

In particular you will need to:

• Ensure that the specified logfile directory exists and you have write permissions on it.
• Ensure that the PostGIS database configuration matches the host, port, user, password, and name of your database.
• In order to use the Github and Gist providers you'll need to correctly set the "github_token" property to match your personal Github API token.

Koop runs its own http server and will use port 1337 by default. You can start koop in several ways (see below) and then visit http://localhost:1337

grunt server

node app.js

PORT=9999 node app.js

Currently the tests depend on a locally running instance of koop. Once you have koop running:

1. install grunt if you dont have it sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
2. run the tests grunt test

We've deployed a sample server as a testbed / proof of concept to http://koop.dc.esri.com

Koop is now designed to expose 3rd party services as FeatureServices that are consumable within Esri products and services. Currently Koop has the following providers shipped by default:

• gists
• github
• agol
• socrata

Each provider resides in api/providers/

Each provider defines custom routes, a controller, and a model. Each of these uses module.exports to export an object (common js modules). Each is then fused into koop at start up time and becomes available within the server.

"Note": The name of the provider dir is used to define the name of the provider and its controller within koop.

• Define custom routes in the "routes" index.js file:

        // defined in api/providers/sample/routes/index.js
 
        module.exports = {
          'get /sample': {
            controller: 'sample',
            action: 'index'
          }
        }

• The above creates a /sample route that calls the index method on the sample controller ( defined in /api/providers/sample/controller/index.js ).

• Defines the handlers to used to respond to routes

      module.exports = {
        // this tells koop to treat this provider like AGS service and show up at the root data provider endpoint 
        provider: false,

        // our index method to simple print text 
        index: function(req, res){
          res.send('Sample Providers, to make this a real one set provider true');
        }
  
      }; 

• each method takes in a request and response property and needs to send something to the reponse.

• Should be used to interact directly with 3rd party services and databases
• Models make the http requests to API and should hand back raw data to the controllers

• http://koop.dc.esri.com/gist/6021269
• http://koop.dc.esri.com/gist/6021269/FeatureServer
• http://koop.dc.esri.com/gist/6021269/FeatureServer/0
• http://koop.dc.esri.com/gist/6021269/FeatureServer/0/query

• http://koop.dc.esri.com/github/colemanm/hurricanes/fl_2004_hurricanes
• http://koop.dc.esri.com/github/colemanm/hurricanes/fl_2004_hurricanes/FeatureServer
• http://koop.dc.esri.com/github/colemanm/hurricanes/fl_2004_hurricanes/FeatureServer/0/query
• Note: Repos can of course have directories, and this presents an issue with creating dynamic routes that match arbitrary paths in github. To sole this Koop will replace dashes with slashed in its github routes:
  • http://koop.dc.esri.com/github/geobabbler/geodata/geojson-border_crossings/FeatureServer/0/query
  • The above url would pull down this geojson file: https://github.com/geobabbler/geodata/blob/master/geojson/border_crossings.geojson

We'd like to have full feature service query support from any geojson data source. Currently the coverage is limited to the following params:

To see a full list of what koop will support in time visit http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/

Koop uses either a local cache or a MongoDB instance to store data so that it doesnt flood external API with requests. This is helpful for avoiding API rate limits and general makes Koop faster (quick access to data). By default Koop will use a local hash to store data, but this is inefficient and doesnt persist across processes. To get around this Koop can use MongoDB which works well for non-relational data and has the added bonus of having geospatial query support.

• ArcGIS Developers
• ArcGIS REST Services
• twitter@esri

Find a bug or want to request a new feature? Please let us know by submitting an issue.

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Copyright 2013 Esri

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