occupationMeasurement (version 0.3.2)

api: Start the occupation coding API.

Description

Start the occupation coding API.

Usage

api(
  start = TRUE,
  log_to_file = FALSE,
  file = system.file("plumber", "api", "plumber.R", package = "occupationMeasurement"),
  log_to_console = TRUE,
  log_filepath = file.path("output", "log_api.csv"),
  require_identifier = FALSE,
  allow_origin = NULL
)

Value

A Plumber router

Arguments

start

Whether to immediately start the api. (Defaults to TRUE)

log_to_file

Whether to requests should be logged in a file. Defaults to FALSE. Note: The file format used here is a CSV file for easier analysis.

file

Path to the plumber.R file describing the API. Defaults to plumber/api/plumber.R within the installed package. Refer to this file to understand how the API is implemented.

log_to_console

Whether to requests should be logged in the console. Defaults to TRUE.

log_filepath

The path to a CSV file in which to save the structured logs.

require_identifier

Whether an identifier has to be added to api requests in order to match / identify requests afterwards. Defaults to FALSE.

allow_origin

Domain from which to allow cross origin requests (CORS). If the API is running on a different domain / server than the application using it, the website's root has to be provided here e.g. "https://occupationMeasurement.github.io". For more information see the plumber security page, and MDN. Defaults to NULL to not set any header at all.

See Also

vignette("api")

Examples

data.table::setDTthreads(1)

if (interactive()) {
  # Get the plumber router
  router <- api(
    start = FALSE,
    # If this is TRUE, the log directory will immediately be created
    log_to_file = FALSE
  )
  # Start the router
  plumber::pr_run(router)
}

if (interactive()) {
  # Immediately start the API
  api(start = TRUE)
}