Liza Data Collection Framework

Liza

Liza is a data collection, validation, and processing framework for JavaScript.

About

The Liza Data Collection Framework—"Liza" for short—is an effort to clean up, formalize, and expand upon a framework that was developed at RT Specialty / LoVullo for collecting, validating, and processing large amounts of user input for insurance quoting.

Configuring

If your distribution does not contain a `configure' file in the project root, then you likely have the sources as committed to the project repository; you may generate the script by issuing the following command:

  ./autogen.sh

You may then see ./configure --help for more information.

Building

If configure is not available, see the section "Configuring" above.

First time setup:

  ./bootstrap

Subsequent builds:

  make

Additional Make Targets

  make format   # run auto-format with prettier
  make fix      # attempt to auto-fix linting errors

Delta Processor

See DELTA-PROCESSOR-README.md for more information on the delta processor daemon.

Dullahan

See DULLAHAN-README.md for more information on the Dullahan daemon.

Documentation

Compiled documentation for the latest release is available via our GitLab mirror, which uses the same build pipeline as we do on our internal GitLab instance. Available formats are:

• Multi-page HTML
• PDF
• Info

Hacking

For more information on hacking Liza and publishing to npm, see HACKING.

License

Liza is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The liza server is licensed differently: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The full licenses are available in COPYING and COPYING.AGPL.

Local Development Setup with the Connector

To be able to develop out of ~/gitrepos/rating-fw and ~/gitrepos/liza, you must use symlinks in the Connector repository:

# Ensure that liza is built properly

# create symlinks in ~/gitrepos/connector/node_modules
$ cd node_modules
$ rm -rf rating-fw
$ rm -rf liza
$ ln -s ~/gitrepos/rating-fw rating-fw
$ ln -s ~/gitrepos/liza liza

In quote_server file in Connector repo add this line

NODE_SERVER="$(pwd)/node_modules/liza/bin/server"

You should now be able to continue running the Quote Server as before while developing out of ~/gitrepos/.

For more information about developing and debugging liza, please visit [Confluence]: https://rsgcorp.atlassian.net/wiki/x/J4Cf-/