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FireRatingCloud Heroku + Mongolab Deployed

Fully and completely deploying the FireRatingCloud support database on the cloud was much easier than expected. Please refer to the fireratingdb node.js web server and FireRatingCloud Revit add-in GitHub repositories for an overview of the exploration and project evolution. I already moved the database off-site to the mongolab host yesterday, but I still had the node web server running locally. To do so, I created a new Heroku app and linked it to the existing fireratingdb GitHub repo. I asked... Read more →

FireRatingCloud Round Trip and on Mongolab

I completed the initial FireRating conversion to the cloud. Here are the steps it took to reach that point: Revit project identification Complete Revit Add-in Implementation Demo Run Log Demo Video Mongolab – really in the cloud Postman does more than cURL Wrap-up, Download and Outlook It now runs full circle, storing Revit building model door instance fire rating values for multiple projects in a cloud-based mongo database. It implements the same three commands as the original FireRating SDK sample... Read more →

C# .NET REST API GET and PUT MongoDB Storage

Yesterday, I set up MongoDB and the fireratingdb node.js web server driving it on Windows and started populating the database from a desktop C# .NET add-in via its REST API. Today, let's complete that, adding the door instance documents to the project data: Adding a JSON parser module Storing door instance documents in mongo Using PUT instead of POST when the database id is known Checking for project existence before adding new Adding a JSON parser module Once a project... Read more →

Populating MongoDB via C# .NET REST API

I discussed some manual testing of the REST API and the PUT, POST and Delete HTTP action implementations. I also promised some live testing from a C# .NET desktop app. In this case, it means adding documents to the fireratingdb node.js mongo web server via the REST API. We'll take a look at that today: Installing MongoDB on Windows Running MongoDB and the node.js web server on Windows Storing a document in mongo via REST API from C# .NET Generating... Read more →

Put, Post, Delete and Curl Testing a REST API

I continued the cloud-based FireRating project by equipping my node.js mongoose-driven mongoDB database web server with a REST API. Let's discuss and test the PUT, POST and DELETE implementation. For the sake of future-proofing, I also added a version prefix to the routing URLs: Add version prefix to routing URLs. Test REST API using browser and cURL. Put – update a record. Post – add a record. Delete – delete a record. Wrapping up for today. So far, we already... Read more →

Starting to Implement the FireRating REST API

Let's equip our node.js mongoose-driven mongoDB database web server with a REST API. To be precise, I will: Define a URL route schema to map requests to application actions. Implement controllers to handle each action. Add interfaces to store, access and modify data. I already discussed the over-all goal and what to store, namely building project models, door instances living in those models, and each door's fire rating value. Next, we looked at how to identify projects and maintain the... Read more →

Implementing Mongo Database Relationships

Let's look at how to implement relationships in a mongo database. Yesterday, I made my very first steps exploring mongoDB to implement a mongoose based node.js database web server. The example I am using is a hopefully simple project to implement a cloud-based multi-project version of the Revit SDK FireRating sample. The relationships we are dealing with here are as trivial as they get: we are looking at doors in a building, represented by door family instances in a Revit... Read more →