Added mongodb database

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Welcome to courses-backend, an express server setup to deliver information on Georgia Tech courses.
 
-To run the server, navigate to the root directory of the application in the cli and run the command `node app.js`. It is configured to run locally on port number 3000.
+To run the server, navigate to the root directory of the application in the cli and run the command `node app.js`. It is configured to run locally on port number 8080.
 
 ## Using the routes
 
@@ -24,10 +24,33 @@ For accessing a specific course:
 
 For example, `/api/course/ACCT/2101`
 
+### Database Query
+
+This app uses `mongodb` as its database type. The app assumes that the database has a collection called `courses` which contains documents of the following structure:
+```json
+{
+  "subject": "ACCT",
+  "number": "2101",
+  "description": "Short description.",
+  "name": "Accounting I"
+}
+```
+
+
+To access this data from the database, use the same queries used for the static info, with the following change to the route:
+
+<pre>
+/api/<b>db</b>/course/...
+</pre>
+
+
+For example, `api/db/course/ACCT/2101`
+
+
 ### Course Critique Query
 
 There is also a route that queries the [coursecritique](https://critique.gatech.edu/) website:
 
 `/api/coursecritique/:id`
 
-For example `/api/coursecritique/ACCT2101`.
+For example `/api/coursecritique/ACCT2101`.

app.js

@@ -2,20 +2,30 @@
 var express = require('express');
 var path = require('path');
 var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
+var assert = require('assert');
+var monk = require('monk');
+var server_port = process.env.OPENSHIFT_NODEJS_PORT || 8080
+var server_ip_address = process.env.OPENSHIFT_NODEJS_IP || '127.0.0.1'
+var app = module.exports = express();
+
 
-var routes = require('./routes/index');
-var port = process.env.PORT || '3000';
 
-var app = express();
+// middleware setup
 
-// view setup
-//other middleware setup
+// set up mongodb
+var uri = "mongodb://test:[email protected]:45464/courses-backend";
+var db = monk(uri);
+app.db = db;
+//console.log(courses);
+
+// other middleware
 app.use(bodyParser.json());
 app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
 app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
 app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname + '/views')));
 
 //route setup
+var routes = require('./routes/index');
 app.use('/', routes);
 
 // error handler
@@ -24,10 +34,9 @@ app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
 	res.send(err);
 });
 
-app.listen(port, function(success, failure) {
-	console.log('server is running on port ' + port);
-}).on('error', function(err) {
-	console.log(err)
+//start the server
+app.listen(server_port, server_ip_address, function(){
+  console.log("Listening on server_port " + server_port)
 });
 
-module.exports = app;
+//module.exports = app;

package.json

@@ -2,12 +2,20 @@
   "name": "courses-backend",
   "version": "0.0.0",
   "scripts": {},
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">= 0.6.0",
+    "npm": ">= 1.0.0"
+  },
   "dependencies": {
+    "assert": "^1.3.0",
     "body-parser": "~1.13.2",
     "cheerio": "^0.19.0",
     "debug": "~2.2.0",
     "express": "~4.13.1",
+    "mongodb": "^2.0.49",
+    "monk": "^1.0.1",
     "q": "^1.4.1",
     "request": "^2.65.0"
-  }
+  },
+  "main": "app.js"
 }