Openhim Production Bootstrap Mediator

Skeleton OpenHIM production Bootstrap mediator. The purpose of this mediator is to provide a starting point for creating a production ready mediator.

Startup

To startup this mediator, you are expected to have the following:

• An instance of the OpenHIM-Core, OpenHIM-Console, and MongoDB running
• An OpenHIM user account with permissions to access the API endpoint
• An OpenHIM Client setup (clientId and password)

If not, please see this tutorial

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Configuring Mediator

This mediator is configured using environment variables.

An environment variable is a variable whose value is set outside the program, typically through functionality built into the operating system or micro-service. An environment variable is made up of a name/value pair, and any number may be created and available for reference at a point in time.

The following variables can be set:

Environment Variable	Default	Description
SERVER_PORT	3002	The exposed port of the mediator
OPENHIM_URL	https://localhost:8080	The location of the the OpenHIM API
OPENHIM_USERNAME	root@openhim.org	Registered OpenHIM Username
OPENHIM_PASSWORD	openhim-password	Password of the registered OpenHIM user
TRUST_SELF_SIGNED	false	In development environments the OpenHIM uses self-signed certificates therefore it is insecure. To allow the mediator to communicate with the OpenHIM via HTTPS this variable can be set to true to ignore the security risk. This should only be done in a development environment

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Node && NPM

To run startup the RedCap mediator open a terminal and navigate to the project directory and run the following commands:

npm install

<Environment_Variables> npm start

Example start command:

SERVER_PORT=4321 OPENHIM_PASSWORD=password npm start

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Docker

To run startup the bootstrap mediator open a terminal and navigate to the project directory and run the following commands:

docker build -t skeleton-mediator .

docker network ls

docker run -e OPENHIM_PASSWORD=password -e SERVER_PORT=4321 --network {openhim-network} --name skeleton-mediator --rm skeleton-mediator

If you start the skeleton mediator with Docker it would be easiest to also have the OpenHIM Core running in a container using Docker. See this tutorial for setting up the OpenHIM with docker and connecting mediators on the same network

Configuring OpenHIM

To route requests from a client to destination systems, the OpenHIM needs to have channels configured to listen for specific requests and send them to specific endpoints.

This mediator is configured (within mediatorConfig.json) to create some default channels and endpoints. To create these channels navigate to the mediators page on the OpenHIM Console.

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Sending Requests

To make a basic POST request, open a terminal (or Postman) and make the following request:

curl --request POST --data "{}" --user admin:password http://localhost:5001/testEndpoint

The user details here are your OpenHIM ClientId and password.