Merge pull request #213 from datopian/fix/status-endpoint

status check endpoint added for site up monitoring

Author: anuveyatsu

index.js

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ const flash = require('connect-flash')
 const i18n = require("i18n")
 const moment = require('moment')
 const redis = require('redis')
+const fetch = require('node-fetch')
+const { URL, resolve } = require('url')
+
 
 const config = require('./config')
 const dmsRoutes = require('./routes/dms')
@@ -119,6 +122,28 @@ module.exports.makeApp = function () {
   // enable flash messages
   app.use(flash())
 
+  /*
+    Route to check the status of the application by
+    calling the package_search of backend with row count as 0
+    to check whether the application is returning response or not
+  */
+  app.get('/status', async (req, res) => {
+    const url = resolve(
+      config.get('API_URL'),
+      `package_search?rows=0`
+    )
+    const response = await fetch(url)
+    if (response.ok) {
+      const body = await response.json()
+      if (body.success == true) {
+        res.status(200).send('Ok')
+      } else {
+        res.status(500).send('Not Ok')
+      }
+
+    }
+  })
+
   // Auth
   if (authEnabled) {
     authRoutes(app)