HiTIDE - Profile

Purpose

HiTIDE-profile is a server-side service created to provide HiTIDE-ui the following capabilities:

• Logging in and out using ESDIS Earthdata Login system
• Only allow the user to submit a subset-job when logged in
• Store subset-job submission history in a database (rather than in browser localStorage)

What it does

HiTIDE-profile provides the following endpoints which are consumed by HiTIDE-ui:

Login related endpoints:

• POST /hitide/api/session/login - verifies user via the Earthdata Login system and establishes session
• POST /hitide/api/session/logout - for ending login session
• GET /hitide/api/session/user - for getting user information about the currently logged in user

Subset-Job related endpoints:

• POST /hitide/api/jobs/submit - for submitting a subset job
• GET /hitide/api/jobs/status - gets the status of a submitted subset job
• GET /hitide/api/jobs/history - get subset job submission history for the currently logged in user
• POST / hitide/api/jobs/disable - disable a particular job in the history; preventing it from being sent in subsequent history requests

Tech used

• Language: Javascript
• Runtime: NodeJS
• Server Framework: ExpressJS
• Deployed using Docker

Connections to other systems

• Earthdata Login system
• MySQL/MariaDB database
• PODAAC L2SS services