Scraper Status Socket
Allow node.js based scrapers to connect to a status socket so that external services can query the current status of the scraper and check if it is running or stopped.
When a scraper starts up, it registers a new service with seaport using the role scraperStatusSupplierCode. For example the NGrid Electric scraper has the supplierCode NGE so it would register with the role scraperStatusNGE
Then this module will connect to an axon rep socket on the port returned by seaport.
Querying
To query the status of a scraper, get the port of the status socket from seaport and send a status request over http
var inspect = ;var request = var config = var supplierCode = 'NGE'var seaConfig = configvar seaHost = seaConfighostvar seaPort = seaConfigportvar ports = seaportvar role = 'scraperStatus' + supplierCode // eg "scraperStatusNGE"var scraperServices = ports // an array of servicesvar scraperService = scraperServices0 // use the first one as an examplevar statusHost = scraperServicehostvar statusPort = scraperServiceport var url = 'http://' + statusHost + ':' + statusPort + '/status'var opts = url: url json: true
The reply is json and should look like
reply = "supplierCode": "NGE" "status": "running" "running": true