Supplier Bill Parser

Parse bills scraped from a supplier website into bill and invoice documents. This module provides the general framework for setting up a supplier-specific parser in the docparse system. Each supplier-specific module will need to implement the actual parsing. This module subscribes the the changes feed and calls the supplier-specific parsing code when a new document is found

Role

Each supplier parser is registered with seaport under the role parseScrapedFGS where FGS is the supplier code

Server

When the parsing service starts up, it setups up a simple express server that reponds to post requests at the /parse/:scrapedID route. The service registers with seaport using the role role parseScrapedFGS. Seaport sends back a port and the parser server listens on this port

Parsing

To parse a scraped document, issue a post http request to the /parse/:scrapedID route at the appropriate host and port, where :scrapedID is the _id of a scraped document in the database

var should = require('should')
var seaport = require('seaport')
var seaConfig = config.get('seaport')
var seaHost = seaConfig.host
var seaPort = seaConfig.port
var ports = seaport.connect(seaHost, seaPort)
var role = 'parseScrapedNGA'
var services = ports.query(role)
services.length.should.be.above(0, 'failed to parse scraped document, no services registered with the role parseScrapedNGA')
var service = services[0]
var serviceHost = service.host
var servicePort = service.port
var url = 'http://' + serviceHost + ':' + servicePort + '/parse/' + scrapedID
var opts = {
  json: true,
  url: url,
  method: 'post'
}
request(opts, function (err, res, body) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err.stack)
    delete err.stack
    inspect(err, 'error requesting parse via post request to service with role parseScrapedNGA')
    return
  }
  inspect(body, 'parsed scraped NGA document correctly')
})