Altinn Notifications

Altinn platform microservice for handling notifications (mail, sms, etc) This component handles the functionality related to registering and sending notifications.

Project organization

This is a backend WebAPI solution written in .NET / C# following the clean architecture principles. The solution is into four projects, each with their associated test project.

Altinn.Notifications

The API layer that consumes services provided by Altinn.Notifications.Core

Relevant implementations:

• Controllers
• Program.cs

Altinn.Notifications.Core

The domain and application layer that implements the business logic of the system.

Relevant implementations:

• Interfaces for external dependencies implemented by infrastructure and repository layer
• Domain models
• Services

Altinn.Notifications.Integrations

The infrastructure layer that implements the interfaces defined in Altinn.Notifications.Core for integrations towards 3rd-party libraries and systems.

Relevant implementations:

• Kafka producer and consumer implementation
• Clients for communicating with Altinn Platform components

Altinn.Notifications.Persistance

The persistance layer that implements repository logic.

Getting started

1. .NET 8.0 SDK
2. Newest Git
3. A code editor - we like Visual Studio Code
   • Also install recommended extensions (e.g. C#)
4. Podman or another container tool such as Docker Desktop
5. PostgreSQL
6. pgAdmin

Setting up PostgreSQL

Ensure that both PostgreSQL and pgAdmin have been installed and start pgAdmin.

In pgAdmin

• Create database notificationsdb
• Create the following users with password: Password (see privileges in parentheses)
  • platform_notifications_admin (superuser, canlogin)
  • platform_notifications (canlogin)
• Create schema notifications in notificationsdb with owner _platform_notificationsadmin

A more detailed description of the database setup is available in our developer handbook

Cloning the application

Clone Altinn Notifications repo and navigate to the folder.

git clone https://github.com/Altinn/altinn-notifications
cd altinn-notifications

Setting up Kafka broker and visualization

Ensure that Docker has been installed and is running.

In a terminal navigate to the root of this repository and run command podman compose -f setup-kafka.yml up -d

Kafdrop is now available at http://localhost:9000.

Running the application with .NET

The Notifications components can be run locally when developing/debugging. Follow the install steps above if this has not already been done.

• Navigate to src/Notifications, and build and run the code from there, or run the solution using you selected code editor

  cd src/Notifications
  dotnet run

The notifications solution is now available locally at http://localhost:5090/. To access swagger use http://localhost:5090/swagger.