How to setup a local development environment for GIRAF (Windows 10)

Installing MySQL

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Starting the MySQL server

1. Start the MySQL80 service

"Tjenester" = "Services" in English

Configuring Weekplanner and Web-API repositories to work locally

1. Go to weekplanner/lib/main.dart
2. Change 'assets/environments.dev.json' to 'assets/environments.local.json' on line 29
3. Go to web-api/GirafRest/appsettings.Development.json
4. Change the server variable to server=localhost in the DefaultConnection key

Building the database for the Web-API and running it with sample data

1. Open command prompt in web-api/GirafRest

1. Type dotnet-ef database update
2. Type dotnet run --sample-data

Making sure everything works

1. Run the weekplanner application on your emulator

2. Login using the default credentials

3. Username: guardian-dev

4. Password: password

If you successfully log in and see output in the Web-API console window, then you are successfully running everything locally

Updating the database when changes are made to the Web-API without migrations

Method 1

1. Open command prompt in web-api/GirafRest

1. Type dotnet-ef database drop
2. Rebuild the database

Method 2

1. Drop the giraf database in the MySQL server

1. Rebuild the database

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Last update: December 12, 2023