Machine translations

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Build and run

1. Package: mvn clean package (build and package frontend and server module)
2. Go to server directory
3. Docker build: run mvn docker:build -DskipTests (build docker image named MT)
4. Start docker: mvn docker:start (This will start docker MT and postgresql MTDB)
5. Logs: mvn docker:logs -Ddocker.follow
6. To stop and remove: mvn docker:stop (This will stop and remove both containers)

Alternatively, run restart.sh. It will rebuild the package and redeploy to docker containers.

DEV mode

DEV mode is enabled when both MT_AZURE_KEY and GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS are not present in environment variable. You can also enable it by passing a non-empty DEV_BACKEND environment variable to the running instance. Once enabled and requested, the service will not use any paid service backend but will return wrapped string: 'translated[网 string 网]'.

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Environment Variables

List of Environment variables that are used in the application.

MT_AZURE_KEY (if this and Google key are empty, DEV mode will be enabled)

Subscription key for MS translators

GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (if this and AZURE key are empty, DEV mode will be enabled)

Location to the Google service account credential json file

MT_ORIGIN_WHITELIST (optional)

Url for CORS access control. Http response will include Access-Control-Allow-Origin in the header to cross-browser access.

DEV_BACKEND (optional)

Enable dev backend for testing.

Authentication to the REST api

Header fields that are used for authentication:

X-Auth-User the account username

X-Auth-Token the account password

If the instance starts with an empty account table in the database e.g. first load, it will display a random hash as initial password in the server log. The value of the hash will also be written to ~/magpie_initial_password.

You can then authenticate to the REST api by setting X-Auth-User to admin and X-Auth-Token to the hash noted above. This credential is considered to have admin role. This can only be used for creating admin account (currently a BETA feature).

To create an account (account with admin role only)

POST /api/account
// payload
{
	"name": "John Smith",
	"email": "[email protected]",
	"accountType": "Normal",
	"roles": ["admin"],
  "username": "devID",
  "password": ["d", "e", "v", "K", "E", "Y"]
}

Once an admin account is created, the initial password is no longer valid.

To query accounts (account with admin role only)

GET /api/account

Any other REST api can be accessed by an authenticated account regardless role (for now)