LinkSmart Thing Directory

This is an implementation of the W3C WoT Thing Description Directory (TDD), a registry of Thing Descriptions.

Getting Started

Visit the following pages to get started:

• Deployment: How to deploy the software, as Docker container, Debian package, or platform-specific binary distributions
• Configuration: How to configure the server software with JSON files and environment variables
• API Documentation: How to interact with the networking APIs

Further documentation are available in the wiki.

Features

• Service Discovery
  • DNS-SD registration
  • LinkSmart Service Catalog registration
• RESTful API
  • HTTP API
    • Thing Description (TD) CRUD, catalog, and validation
    • XPath 3.0 and JSONPath query languages
    • TD validation with JSON Schema (default)
    • Request authentication and authorization
    • JSON-LD response format
• Persistent Storage
  • LevelDB
• CI/CD (Github Actions)
  • Automated testing
  • Automated builds and releases (Docker images, binaries)

Development

The dependencies of this package are managed by Go Modules.

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/linksmart/thing-directory.git
cd thing-directory

Compile from source:

go build

This will result in an executable named thing-directory (linux/macOS) or thing-directory.exe (windows).

Get the CLI arguments help (linux/macOS):

$ ./thing-directory -help
Usage of ./thing-directory:
  -conf string
        Configuration file path (default "conf/thing-directory.json")
  -version
        Print the API version

Run (linux/macOS):

$ ./thing-directory --conf=sample_conf/thing-directory.json

To build and run together:

go run . --conf=sample_conf/thing-directory.json

Test all packages (add -v flag for verbose results):

go test ./...

Contributing

Contributions are welcome.

Please fork, make your changes, and submit a pull request. For major changes, please open an issue first and discuss it with the other authors.