This repository is intended for software developers who wish to modify the Farmbot Web App. If you are not a developer, you are highly encouraged to use the publicly available web app.

If you are a developer interested in contributing or would like to provision your own server, you are in the right place.

LATEST STABLE VERSION IS HERE ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

This Repo is RESTful JSON API for Farmbot. This includes things like storage of user data, plant data, authorization tokens and a variety of other resources.

The key responsibility of the API is information and permissions management. This should not be confused with device control, which is done via MQTT.

Your machine will need the following:

0. Ruby 2.3.1
1. A running MySQL server

0. git clone https://github.com/FarmBot/Farmbot-Web-API farmbot-web-app
1. cd farmbot-web-app
2. bundle install
3. Copy config/database.example.yml to config/database.yml. In GNU/Linux or Mac: mv config/database.example.yml config/database.yml.
4. rake db:create:all db:migrate db:seed
5. (optional) Verify installation with RAILS_ENV=test rake db:create db:migrate && rspec spec.
6. MQTT_HOST=your_mqtt_server_domain rails s
7. (optional) Run ./install_frontend.sh to install the latest frontend app. You may also run the frontend on a seperate server. See frontend repository for details.
8. Open localhost:3000.
9. Raise an issue if you hit problems with any of these steps.

Please see deployment.md.

Here are some of the configuration options you must set when provisioning a new server:

• Encryption keys: Encryption keys will be autogenerated if not present. They can be reset using rake keys:generate. If ENV['RSA_KEY'] is set, it will be used in place of the *.pem files. Useful for environments like Heroku, where file system access is not allowed.
• ENV['DEVISE_SECRET']: Used for devise. Use rake secret to generate a new value.
• ENV['MQTT_HOST']: Host (no port or slashes or anything) of running MQTT gateway. This is required so that Farmbot can know where to connect when given an authorization token.
• ENV['API_HOST']: Domain of the server. Default is localhost.
• ENV['API_PORT']: Port the server is on. Default is 3000.

We can't fix issues we don't know about. Please submit an issue if you are having trouble installing on your local machine.

Please run them before submitting pull requests.

• bundle exec rspec spec

You must pass a token string into most HTTP requests under the Authorization: request header.

Here's what a response looks like when you request a token:

{
    "token": {
        "unencoded": {
            "sub": "[email protected]",
            "iat": 1459109728,
            "jti": "922a5a0d-0b3a-4767-9318-1e41ae600352",
            "iss": "http://localhost:3000/",
            "exp": 1459455328,
            "mqtt": "localhost",
            "bot": "aa7bb37f-5ba3-4654-b2e4-58ed5746508c"
        },
        "encoded":
        // THE IMPORTANT PART IS HERE!!:
         "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ0ZXN0MTIzQHRlc3QuY29tIiwiaWF0IjoxNDU5MTA5NzI4LCJqdGkiOiI5MjJhNWEwZC0wYjNhLTQ3NjctOTMxOC0xZTQxYWU2MDAzNTIiLCJpc3MiOiJodHRwOi8vbG9jYWxob3N0OjMwMDAvIiwiZXhwIjoxNDU5NDU1MzI4LCJtcXR0IjoibG9jYWxob3N0IiwiYm90IjoiYWE3YmIzN2YtNWJhMy00NjU0LWIyZTQtNThlZDU3NDY1MDhjIn0.KpkNGR9YH68AF3iHP48GormqXzspBJrDGm23aMFGyL_eRIN8iKzy4gw733SaJgFjmebJOqZkz3cly9P5ZpCKwlaxAyn9RvfjQgFcUK0mywWAAvKp5lHfOFLhBBGICTW1r4HcZBgY1zTzVBw4BqS4zM7Y0BAAsflYRdl4dDRG_236p9ETCj0MSYxFagfLLLq0W63943jSJtNwv_nzfqi3TTi0xASB14k5vYMzUDXrC-Z2iBdgmwAYUZUVTi2HsfzkIkRcTZGE7l-rF6lvYKIiKpYx23x_d7xGjnQb8hqbDmLDRXZJnSBY3zGY7oEURxncGBMUp4F_Yaf3ftg4Ry7CiA"
    }
}

Important: The response is provided as JSON for human readability. For your Authorization header, you will only be using data.token.encoded. In this example, it's the string starting with eyJ0eXAiOiJ...

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -X POST \
     -d '{"user":{"email":"[email protected]","password":"password123"}}' \
     https://my.farmbot.io/api/tokens

Since the API supports CORS, you can generate your token right in the browser.

Here's an example:

$.ajax({
    url: "https://my.farmbot.io/api/tokens",
    type: "POST",
    data: JSON.stringify({user: {email: '[email protected]', password: 'password123'}}),
    contentType: "application/json"
})
.then(function(data){
  // You can now use your token:
  var MY_SHINY_TOKEN = data.token.encoded;
});

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