Michael Vorburger created FINERACT-1238:
-------------------------------------------
Summary: Automated Demo Data creation tooling
Key: FINERACT-1238
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-1238
Project: Apache Fineract
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Michael Vorburger
It would be nice, and very useful, if we had a reasonably easy way to
automatically "create Demo Data" for Fineract. This makes sense both for scale
testing, but perhaps even more importantly in the short term, to have local dev
and demo instances like https://www.fineract.dev which are "not so empty" as
they normally are.
This has come up e.g. on https://github.com/openMF/web-app/pull/1256 as on
argument why the https://github.com/openMF/web-app/ maintainers still prefe
using the old https://staging.mifos.io instead of https://www.fineract.dev.
FINERACT-1170 is related to this, but this is more specific & focused - a
pre-requisite?
There are 2 dimensions here: WHAT to create, and HOW to create it.
Re. WHAT, it would be good to have someone help with specifying this.. could
even be a simple as a list of bullet points in an email thread?
Re. HOW, I can think of a few options, and maybe others can think of more:
A. SQL scripts from dump of an existing installation. I personally don't like
this very much, because such dumps could contain anything - not what the REST
API programmatically created, but what people providing such a dump fiddled
around with in the DB.
B. JSON files to feed the REST API, e.g. a Collection of example Postman
scripts that create "one of", with some to be built tooling making "many like
that". Or not using Postman, just... manual JSON with a bit of Java that sends
it to the API using whatever Java HTTP client.
C. Scripting for the REST API using some tool. Building this using our brand
new Fineract Client Java API.
I would like to say "let's do C." but seeing that [there still are issues with
the Fineract Client Java
API|https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20FINERACT%20AND%20component%20%3D%20SDK],
hacking something using a B. like approach would likely lead to results faster.
[~aleks] how much more than me :P do you understand of the "functionality" to
possibly help on this front?
[~ptuomola] any thoughts about this? Do you have any interest (time) to do
anything on this front?
[~edcable] how did you traditionally populate demo instances?
[~jdailey] ([~jamespdailey]?) is this something you would enjoy helping with?
Anyone else reading this wanting to jump on helping with this?
--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.3.4#803005)
