CartoDB-SQL-API

The CARTO’s SQL API allows you to interact with your data inside CARTO, as if you were running SQL statements against a normal database.

• Run queries with fine-grained permissions through Auth API.
• Export data in multiple geospatial formats (CVS, geopackage, KML, SHP, spatialite, geojson, topojson, etc).
• Schedule jobs using Batch Queries.
• Copy queries allows you to use the PostgreSQL copy command for efficient streaming of data to and from CARTO.

Build

Requirements:

• Node 10.x (npm 6.x)
• PostgreSQL >= 10.0
• PostGIS >= 2.4
• CARTO Postgres Extension >= 0.24.1
• Redis >= 4
• GDAL 1.11.0 (bin utils). See installing GDAL
• C++11 to build internal dependencies. When there's no pre-built binaries for your OS/architecture distribution.

Optional:

• Varnish
• Statsd

PostGIS setup

A template_postgis database is expected. One can be set up with

$ createdb --owner postgres --template template0 template_postgis
$ psql -d template_postgis -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis;'

Install

To fetch and build all node-based dependencies, run:

$ npm install

Run

Create the ./config/environments/<env>.js file (there are .example files to start from). Look at ./lib/server-options.js for more on config.

$ node app.js <env>

Where <env> is the name of a configuration file under ./config/environments/.

Test

$ npm test

Coverage

$ npm run cover

Open ./coverage/lcov-report/index.html.

Docker support

We provide docker images just for testing and continuous integration purposes:

• nodejs-xenial-pg1121
• nodejs-xenial-pg101

You can find instructions to install Docker, download, and update images here.

Useful npm scripts

Run test in a docker image with a specific Node.js version:

$ DOCKER_IMAGE=<docker-image-tag> NODE_VERSION=<nodejs-version> npm run test:docker

Where:

• <docker-image-tag>: the tag of required docker image, e.g. carto/nodejs-xenial-pg1121:latest
• <nodejs-version>: the Node.js version, e.g. 10.15.1

In case you need to debug:

$ DOCKER_IMAGE=<docker-image-tag> npm run docker:bash

Documentation

You can find an overview, guides, full reference, and support in CARTO's developer center. The docs directory contains different documentation resources, from a higher level to more detailed ones.

Contributing

• The issue tracker: Github.
• We love Pull Requests from everyone, see contributing to Open Source on GitHub.
• You'll need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before submitting a Pull Request. Learn more here.

Versioning

We follow SemVer for versioning. For available versions, see the tags on this repository.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License. See the LICENSE file for details.