Homepage numbers should be pulled from the API

[DavidLemayian]

Currently the number of organisations are a static metric. They should instead be called from sourceAFRICA's API.

[alfmoh]

Hello, I would like to help. Any documentation available on how to go about things?

[DavidLemayian]

Hi @alfmoh. Unfortunately not much documentation. In-fact the plan is to move this entire functionality into sourceAFRICA which is Ruby based with also scanty documentation on deployment. :(

[alfmoh]

I'd like to help but since I know nothing about the API, it will be difficult.

[DavidLemayian]

@alfmoh The API documentation is here but nothing available for orgs - https://sourceafrica.net/help/api

[alfmoh]

Alright, will go through and see what I can produce. 😊

[rmaitra]

@DavidLemayian are these issues open to the public solve? It seems this issue has to do with getting a count for the number of orgs, contributors, documents, and pages from sourceAFRICA:

https://github.com/CodeForAfrica/sourceAFRICA.app-Briefcase/blob/master/index.html#L42

 <div class="col-sm-6 first bg-primary">
      <p>PUBLIC DOCUMENTS FROM</p>
      <h3>47 Organizations</h3>
      <p><small>No. of Contributors:</small> 137</p>
      <a href="/organizations.html" class="btn btn-sm btn-default">View all Organizations <i class="fui-arrow-right"></i></a>
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-6 second">
      <p>COLLECTION OF</p>
      <h3>115,126 Documents</h3>
      <p><small>No. of Pages:</small> 1,243,213</p>
      <a href="/search.html" class="btn btn-sm btn-default">View all Resources <i class="fui-arrow-right"></i></a>
    </div>

and sourceAFRICA has these in their db:

Entity	Code line in schema.rb
organizations	https://github.com/CodeForAfrica/sourceAFRICA/blob/master/db/schema.rb#L216
documents	https://github.com/CodeForAfrica/sourceAFRICA/blob/master/db/schema.rb#L132
pages	https://github.com/CodeForAfrica/sourceAFRICA/blob/master/db/schema.rb#L234

nothing for contributors unless that is membership. And you are right, the sourceAFRICA api doesn't seem to have endpoints for these entities except documents:

 # API
  scope(:api, controller: 'api') do
    scope(via: 'options', action: 'cors_options') do
      match 'documents/pending.:format',            allowed_methods: [:get]
      match 'documents/:id.:format',                allowed_methods: [:get, :put, :delete]
      match 'documents/:id/entities.:format',       allowed_methods: [:get]
      match 'documents/:id/note/:note_id.:format',  allowed_methods: [:get]
      match 'documents/:id/notes/:note_id.:format', allowed_methods: [:get]
      match 'projects/:id.:format',                 allowed_methods: [:get, :put, :delete]
      match 'projects.:format',                     allowed_methods: [:get, :post]
      match 'search.:format',                       allowed_methods: [:get]
    end

    put 'documents/:id.:format',                action: 'update'
    delete 'documents/:id.:format',             action: 'destroy'
    get 'documents/:id/entities.:format',       action: 'entities'
    get 'documents/:id/note/:note_id.:format',  action: 'notes'
    get 'documents/:id/notes/:note_id.:format', action: 'notes'
    get 'documents/pending.:format',            action: 'pending'
    get 'projects/:id.:format',                 action: 'project'
    get 'projects.:format',                     action: 'projects'
    post 'projects.:format',                    action: 'create_project'
    put 'projects/:id.:format',                 action: 'update_project'
    delete 'projects/:id.:format',              action: 'destroy_project'
  end

Is the data actually in the database? If so, it would be easy to probably add an endpoint for strictly counting these entities. Not sure if @alfmoh is already working on this. Also, since there are no pull requests to sourceAFRICA's repository that there has been development unless people just merge and push on their localhost. Anyways, let me know! Hope I can help in any way. I'm a ruby guy so looks interesting.

[DavidLemayian]

@rmaitra These issues certainly are open to the public to solve. :)

Yip, an endpoint specifically to give summary of counts on sourceAFRICA would be needed to achieve this. A PR on this would be more than welcome.