Helidon Polyglot Microservice Demo

Sample Helidon MP project that includes multiple REST operations with various implementations languages to showcase GraalVM Polyglot features. The application provides an Helidon Microservices that enables users to visualize a Covid-19 evolution in France, This application relies on data provided by the French National Health Agency ( Santé Publique France).

• Java
• R
• Python
• C
• Javascript

Setup GraalVM 🚀

Download GraalVM latest binaries from https://www.graalvm.org/downloads

tar -zxf ~/Downloads/graalvm-ce-java11-darwin-amd64-20.2.0.tar.gz  -C ~/Applications/Java/
export GRAALVM_HOME=~/Applications/Java/graalvm-ce-java11-20.2.0/Contents/Home
export JAVA_HOME=$GRAALVM_HOME
export PATH=$PATH:$GRAALVM_HOME/bin
export LLVM_TOOLCHAIN=$(lli --print-toolchain-path)

Install GraalVM addons for native-image ,python, R

$GRAALVM_HOME/bin/gu install python R native-image

GraalVM component list should look like:

$GRAALVM_HOME/bin/gu list
ComponentId              Version             Component name      Origin
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
js                       20.2.0              Graal.js
graalvm                  20.2.0              GraalVM Core
R                        20.2.0              FastR               github.com
llvm-toolchain           20.2.0              LLVM.org toolchain  github.com
native-image             20.2.0              Native Image        github.com
python                   20.2.0              Graal.Python        github.com

You may also need to configure fastR with some GraalVM versions using

$GRAALVM_HOME/languages/R/bin/configure_fastr

Build and run

Get the source code from Github

git clone https://github.com/nelvadas/helidon-polyglot-demo.git

Build the C lib dependency

The downloadstatus.c file ensure the covid-data.csv local file is present on the host and prints its total size

$LLVM_TOOLCHAIN/clang downloadstatus.c -o downloadstatus

./downloadstatus /tmp/covid-data.csv
Checking the downloaded file!
/tmp/covid-data.csv file attributes : size: 364782 bytes, last modified: 1597935473

Add custom Certs to Graal

In this tutorial, we are manipulating data provided by the French National Health Agency (https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/6fadff46-9efd-4c53-942a-54aca783c30c), We will be using a Java code to automatically download the daily file that reports the new covid-19 cases by french departement. Get the certificate with the following command.

openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.data.gouv.fr:443 </dev/null 2>/dev/null|openssl x509 -outform PEM > datagouvfr.pem

In case you do not have openssl, you can download the file from source code datagouvfr.pem

Import this file in your $GRAALVM cacert

keytool  -importcert  \
-file datagouvfr.pem \
-alias datagouvfr \
-keystore $GRAALVM_HOME/lib/security/cacerts \
-storepass changeit -trustcacerts -noprompt

👉 For Java8 check the caccert path $GRAALVM_HOME/jre/lib/security

Build the helidon JAR

With JDK11+

cd helidon-polyglot-demo
mvn package
$java -Dapp.covid.rscript=$(pwd)/scripts/covidgraph.R \
            -Dapp.covid.cscript=$(pwd)/scripts/downloadstatus \
            -Dapp.covid.pyscript=$(pwd)/scripts/department.py \
            -jar target/helidon-polyglot-demo.jar

Console should display message like the following saying the servers starts on the default port 8080.:fire::fire::fire:

2020.08.24 17:18:08 INFO io.helidon.webserver.NettyWebServer Thread[nioEventLoopGroup-2-1,10,main]: Channel '@default' started: [id: 0xc61d3b46, L:/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:8080]
2020.08.24 17:18:08 INFO io.helidon.microprofile.server.ServerCdiExtension Thread[main,5,main]: Server started on http://localhost:8080 (and all other host addresses) in 2203 milliseconds (since JVM startup).
2020.08.24 17:18:08 INFO io.helidon.common.HelidonFeatures Thread[features-thread,5,main]: Helidon MP 2.0.1 features: [CDI, Config, Fault Tolerance, Health, JAX-RS, Metrics, Open API, Security, Server, Tracing]

Exercise the application

Download the covid-19 sample Data (Java)

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/covid-19/fr/download

This endpoint download the most recent dataset from French Health agency and save it on local path /tmp/covid-data.csv( )

2020.08.24 18:03:44 INFO org.graalvm.demo.CovidResource Thread[helidon-1,5,server]: localpath =/TMP/COVID-DATA.CSV

This file contains information about new covid-19 cases in French:fr: departments and territories since :date: March 19th 2020.

$head covid-data.csv
dep;jour;incid_hosp;incid_rea;incid_dc;incid_rad
01;2020-03-19;1;0;0;0
01;2020-03-20;0;0;0;1
01;2020-03-21;3;0;0;0
01;2020-03-22;3;1;0;1
01;2020-03-23;14;1;0;5
01;2020-03-24;11;1;0;4
01;2020-03-25;13;2;0;5
01;2020-03-26;14;3;2;2
01;2020-03-27;14;2;0;0

Check the download status (C code)

curl -X  GET -I  http://localhost:8080/covid-19/fr/download/status

This endpoint checks the local dataset is properly download, :-1: in case of failure while downloading it returns an HTTP 500 code.

Checking the downloaded file! /tmp/covid-data.csv file attributes : size: 374122 bytes, last modified: 1598285024 2020.08.24 18:08:00 INFO org.graalvm.demo.CovidResource Thread[helidon-2,5,server]: [SUCCES] Downloaded file https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/6fadff46-9efd-4c53-942a-54aca783c30c to /tmp/covid-data.csv

(base) $ls -rtl /tmp/covid-data.csv
-rw-r--r--  1 enonowog  wheel  374122 24 aoû 18:03 /tmp/covid-data.csv

Retreive departement Names by Id (python code)

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/covid-19/fr/department/75
PARIS

The python scripts provides a function that gives a department names based on its id

import polyglot

dnames={
"01":  "AIN",
"02":  "AISNE",
...
}

@polyglot.export_value
def getDepartmentNameById(deptId):
  if deptId in dnames:
      return dnames[deptId]
  else:
    return "-"

Covid-19 hospitalization trend per department (R code + Java +Javacript+ Python)

From your browser open http://localhost:8080/covid-19/fr/trends/75

The new covid-19 cases is ploted using R and a two utilities functions:

• The python script is used to retreive department name
• a javascript function that properly format department sent on One digit

polyglot.eval("js",(" function patchDeptId (deptId) { if(deptId.length==1) {return `0`+deptId } else return deptId } "));
eg.  1 => 01, 2=>02 ... 9=>09 , 75 remains 75 

• R xyplot function is used display trends from the csv data

Server logs...
...
/tmp/covid-data.csv
running with departmentId=75 in JavaScript!
Loading required package: lattice
...
print(g1)
grDevices:::svg.off()
}
[polyglot value]
[1] "75"
[polyglot value]
[1] "PARIS"
[polyglot value]
[1] "/tmp/covid-data.csv"

You can repeat the operation with various French departements 75 (Paris), 78 (Yvelines) ...

Check health and metrics

curl -s -X GET http://localhost:8080/health

Build the Docker Image 🐳

docker build -t helidon-polyglot-demo .

Start the application with Docker

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 helidon-polyglot-demo:latest

A docker image nelvadas/helidon-polyglot-demo is available on Docker Hub for this app.

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 nelvadas/helidon-polyglot-demo:1.0.0

docker tag helidon-polyglot-demo:latest  nelvadas/helidon-polyglot-demo:1.0.0
docker push nelvadas/helidon-polyglot-demo:1.0.0

Exercise the application as described above

1. Download /tmp/covid-data.csv

curl -s -X GET http://localhost:8080/covid-19/fr/download

2. Check trends for another departement

http://localhost:8080/covid-19/fr/trends/33

Congratulations and thanks for reading ✅