# charles-rest [](https://travis-ci.org/opencharles/charles-rest) [](http://www.0pdd.com/p?name=opencharles/charles-rest) 

##What it is:

A webapp .war - codebase behind Charles Michaels chatbot. It receives notifications read by this ejb checker and takes actions according to each of them. Any Github account can be used with this project; it's all dictated by the Github auth token used.

Say @charlesmike hi there in a Github issue comment and see what happens. Check out the website for more details on how to use this service.

Contribute

We are currently looking for contributors. Read this post.

1. Open an issue regarding an improvement you thought of, or a bug you noticed, or asked to be assigned to an existing one.
2. If the issue is confirmed, fork the repository, do the changes on a sepparate branch and make a Pull Request.
3. After review and acceptance, the PR is merged and closed.
4. You are automatically listed as a contributor on the project's site

Make sure the maven build

$mvn clean install

passes before making a PR.

Key technologies

• phantom js and [Selenium] (http://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/) with GhostDriver
• [Elastic search] (https://www.elastic.co/)
• [Amazon Web Services] (https://aws.amazon.com/)
• [Github API] (https://developer.github.com/v3/) (using jcabi-github)

If you wish to install it on your own infrastructure:

The .war should work fine on any Java EE web server. It is not bound by any server-specific property file or other things like that. Once deployed, it exposes the endpoint POST /api/notifications which accepts a JsonArray of format:

[
    ...,
    {
        "repoFullName":"owner/repoNameHere",
        "issueNumber":123
    },
    ...
]

As it is clear, a pipeline between Github Notifications API and this endpoint is needed. You can setup one of your own (respecting the above mentioned interface) or use this ejb .jar.

You will need to set the following system properties. Pay a lot of attention while configuring these, since everything relies on them.

Rest api sys props

Name	Value	Description
LOG_ROOT	string	Optional. Place where the log files will be stored. Defaults to . (dot)
charles.rest.logs.endpoint	**domain**/**charles-rest-context-root**/api/logs	Mantadory. Rest endpoint from charles-rest that returns the log of an action.
github.auth.token	string	Mantadory. Github agent's access token. Must be the same as for the EJB checker
phantomjsExec	string	Optional. Location of phantomjs executable on the server. Defaults to /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
aws.es.endpoint	string	Mandatory. Endpoint of AWS elasticsearch service
aws.es.region	string	Mandatory. Region of AWS elasticsearch service
aws.accessKeyId	string	Mandatory. AWS access key id
aws.secretKey	string	Mandatory. AWS secret key