Pathfinder

A dynamic HyperCat catalogue server with the following features:

Hosting of multiple catalogues /cats/
Aliasing of /cat to a catalogue in /cats
Read/insert/modify of items
Basic Auth for authentication
Search of catalogue (urn:X-tsbiot:search:simple)
Rich permissions system to set access and visibility rights based on catalogue/item metadata properties
Mapping of /cat to draft-bormann-core-links-json-02 on /.well-known/core

Prerequisites

The server relies on mongodb for persistent storage and redis for realtime event handling.

apt-get install mongodb redis

npm install
npm start

The automated test suite may be run with

npm test

For test purposes, the catalogue may be wiped with

node tools/dropdb.js