OpenMRS Atlas GSoC 2019 - Community Bonding Period
Thanks to the mentors of the project, and the community for selecting me for this project, and helping me along the way. I am really thrilled to be working on this project, and can’t wait to get stuff going!
Project Details
OpenMRS Atlas is this really neat web application that allows one to view OpenMRS implementations around the world. Users can add markers that are now viewable on Atlas. Unfortunately, when OpenMRS switched to using LDAP, Atlas started to break, and markers could no longer be created/updated. Older markers started to fade. A Node.js implementation of Atlas to fix this was worked on, in a previous year, but the application could never fully be deployed, due to missing authentication functionality. So the task at hand is to fully deploy Atlas, by adding functioning authentication routes, and additional functionality like admin privileges, downloading images, etc.
Work so far
I was pretty busy with my exams until 20th May, so I could scrape little time in between. However, I managed to get an LDAP server running locally, and implemented a login page, with Cintia’s help. The changes can be found here: https://github.com/HelioStrike/openmrs-contrib-atlas/tree/3.x-auth
Short video of what I’ve done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HakW9GrcNbw
Getting LDAP running locally
- Clone the repository openmrs-contrib-ansible-docker-compose
- Navigate to files/ldap-stg
- After making sure that your default docker-machine is running, type in the following command to create a server with a bunch of test users.
docker-compose up -d
- The users’ description can be found in the files present in the bootstrap folder.
Implementing Login
Cintia pointed out that the openmrs-contrib-id repo’s implementation of authentication is pretty similar to what we’d like Atlas to have. I had to create a simple login page but copying most of the LDAP code from id’s repo, and calling the authenticate function from the login route did the trick.
Next Steps
- As I borrowed code from elsewhere, I will have to clean it up and organize the borrowed file properly.
- Implement sessions to hold the authenticated user’s data.
- Add some CSS to the login page... I think that can wait.