Rasta Metadata Enricher REST API

Installation Guide

This document gives the instructions to install the Rasta ME, i.e., the metadata enricher API

Local installation

System Requirements

The software requirements can be summarized as:

• Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or Unix Operating Systems and derived are supported
• Latest OpenJDK 21 (or other Java distribution like Eclipse Adoptium https://adoptium.net/) is recommended.
• Latest Apache Maven installed.

Start Rasta ME API

To launch the Rasta ME API, run these maven commands that will start the application on the port 9090:

1. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the source code and type the following command:

   mvn clean compile
   

2. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the source code and type the following command:

   mvn spring-boot:run
   

Docker installation

System Requirements

Docker has to be installed to your machine

Start Rasta ME API application

To launch the Rasta ME API, run this docker command that will create a container containing the Rasta ME api on the port 9090:

1. Set the Open AI key within the file docker-compose.yaml, i.e., add the key to the spring.ai.openai.api-key properties

2. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the source code and type the following command:

   docker compose up