Alternatives for Saral components

Alternatives for Saral components:

Saral uses a variety of components in order to enable a set of workflows. The choice of these has been driven by the needs for the initial set of workflows that the Saral reference solution enables. These choices however, are to be based on adopter needs and an adopter can choose to use alternative components, if that is what their requirements dictate. This section captures a few details on how two components can be replaced by alternatives.

Table of content

1. How to Migrate Saral backend to use Postgresql instead of MongoDB

2. Open-Source alternative for Firebase Analytics

How to Migrate Saral backend to use Postgresql instead of MongoDB

This guide explains high level steps on how to switch from MongoDB to another alternative - PostgreSQL as the database for your Saral backend application using Sequelize. Sequelize is an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) for Node.js, providing a higher-level abstraction over SQL databases.

Prerequisites

• Node.js installed on your system

• PostgreSQL installed and running on your system

Steps

1. Install Necessary dependency:

• To use postgresql install node libraries like sequelize, pg, pg-hstore

2. Modify Mongoose models to sequelize models:

Saral Database Schema:

• Mongoose version of collection schemas can be found in below link: https://github.com/Sunbird-Saral/Project-Saral/tree/main/v1.0/backend/src/models

• Additionally find sample data for these schemas in below link: https://github.com/Sunbird-Saral/Project-Saral/tree/main/v1.0/backend/data

Schema details of different collections used in saral:

• Brand

  Key Name	Type	Required
  logoImage	String	true
  themeColor1	String
  themeColor2	String
  themeColor3	String
  themeColor4	String
  themeColor5	String
  appName	String	true
  state	String
  supportIcon	String
  Logout	String
  About	String
  Support	String
  Help	String
  screenLabels	object
  ClearCache	String
• Classes

  Key Name	Type	Required
  className	String	true
  classId	String	true
  sections	Array
  schoolId	String	true
• Counters

  Key Name	Type	Required
  counter_value	Number
  _id	String	true
• Exams

  Key Name	Type	Required
  examId	Number	true
  classId	String	true
  type	String	true
  schoolId	String
  examLO	String	true
  examDate	String
  subject	String	true
  set	Array
  totalMarks	Number	true
  questions	object
  state	String
• locks

  Key Name	Type	Required
  lockType	String	true
  lockId	String	true
• Marks

  Key Name	Type	Required
  examId	Number
  classId	String	true
  schoolId	String	true
  examDate	String
  subject	String	true
  set	String
  totalMarks	Number	true
  section	String	true
  studentId	String	true
  studentIdTrainingData	Array
  predictedStudentId	String
  predictionConfidence	Array
  studentAvailability	Boolean	true
  marksInfo	Array object
  totalMarks	Number	true
  maxMarksTrainingData	Array
  maxMarksPredicted	String
  maxMarksConfidence	Array
  maxMarksTrainingData	Array
  securedMarks	Number	true
  obtainedMarksTrainingData	Array
  obtainedMarksPredicted	String
  obtainedMarksConfidence	Array
  createdOn	String
  roiId	String
  shardedKey	String	true
  userId	String	true
• Roi

  Key Name	Type	Required
  subject	String	true
  classId	String	true
  roiId	String	true
  roi	object	true
  set	String
  state	String	true
  type	String
• Schools

  Key Name	Type	Required
  name	String	true
  schoolId	String	true
  autoSync	Boolean
  autoSyncFrequency	Number
  autoSyncBatchSize	Number
  tags	Boolean
  isMinimalMode	Boolean
  supportEmail	String
  isAppForceUpdateEnabled	Boolean
  offlineMode	Boolean
  isManualEditEnabled	Boolean
  scanTimeOutMs	Number
  district	String	true
  isFBAnalyticsEnabled	Boolean
  block	String
  useCase2	Boolean
  useCase3	Boolean
  useCase4	Boolean
  useCase5	Boolean
  state	String	true
• Students

  Key Name	Type	Required
  name	String	true
  studentId	String	true
  fatherName	String
  classId	String	true
  className	String	true
  schoolId	String	true
  section	String
• Users

  Key Name	Type	Required
  name	String	true
  userId	String	true
  schoolId	String	true
  password	String	true
• Roisv2

  Key Name	Type	Required
  schemaName	String	true
  schoolId	String	true
  roiId	String	true
  roi	object	true
  state	String	true
• Admissions

  Key Name	Type	Required	Additional info
  userId	String	true
  schoolId	String	true
  admissionNumber	String	true
  dateOfAdmission	String	true
  studentAadharNumber	String	true
  studentFirstname	String	true
  studentSurname	String	true
  studentDateOfBirth	String	true
  studentGender	String	true
  studentAddress	String	true
  studentBlock	String	true
  studentDistrict	String	true
  guardianFirstname	String	true
  guardianSurname	String	true
  guardianRelation	String	true
  fatherName	String	true
  fatherEducation	String	true
  fatherOccupation	String	true
  fatherContactDetails_phone1	String	true
  fatherContactDetails_phone2	String	false
  motherName	String	true
  motherEducation	String	true
  motherOccupation	String	true
  motherContactDetails_phone1	String	true
  motherContactDetails_phone2	String	false
  rollNumber	String	true
  religion	String	true
  category	String	true
  typeOfRationCard	String	true
  CwSN	String	true
  addressOnRationCard_address	String	true
  addressOnRationCard_ward	String	true
  addressOnRationCard_block	String	true
  addressOnRationCard_district	String	true
  outOfSchool	String	true
  predictionInfo	Array of Object	false	This is optional field used to hold array of object containing info about training data

Note:

All the relationship/link between different collections is defined at Application level(code logic) since mongodb is NoSQL. We can either keep the same workflow using postgresql or feel free to move this to DB level and below is roughly how the ERD diagram would look like.

But make sure to recheck this against the code level logic and change accordingly

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3. Setup proper indexes for DB query performance similar to once set in mongodb.

Refer to mongoose models for index details

https://github.com/Sunbird-Saral/Project-Saral/tree/main/v1.0/backend/src/models

4. Set up database connection

Create a connection to your PostgreSQL database using Sequelize. Modify code in file to allow connection pooling and DB connection logic to use postgresql.

https://github.com/Sunbird-Saral/Project-Saral/blob/main/v1.0/backend/src/db/mongoose.js

Or add a new connection setup file.

5. Modify middlewares, routes and controllers to use Sequelize

• Modify controllers to use sequelize instead of mongoose https://github.com/Sunbird-Saral/Project-Saral/tree/main/v1.0/backend/src/controller

• Modify routes to use sequelize instead of mongoose https://github.com/Sunbird-Saral/Project-Saral/tree/main/v1.0/backend/src/routers

• Modify middlewares to use sequelize instead of mongoose https://github.com/Sunbird-Saral/Project-Saral/tree/main/v1.0/backend/src/middleware

6. Modify Unit test cases to maintain code coverage and sonar gate quality checks.

https://github.com/Sunbird-Saral/Project-Saral/tree/main/v1.0/backend/test

7. Modify docker and docker-compose files to host Saral backend server to interact with postgresql DB.

Open-Source alternative for Firebase Analytics

Firebase Analytics is leveraged in order to understand basic user behavior on the Saral mobile application - including metrics such as number of logins, device profile etc. for the Saral mobile application. It allows for customization of all properties and events according to the application.

It also provides a simple dashboard for reporting.

Firebase is one of the options for basic measurement and tracking of the mobile application. There are many alternatives available, and the choice of tool should be driven by the reporting and measurement needs of the adopter

If an adopter chooses to not leverage Firebase, during the generation of the mobile app - they can skip the details on Firebase integration after the setup of the React native project.

A few open source alternatives for Firebase include:

• Kuzzle: Documentation link for integration https://kuzzle.io/kuzzle-iot-open-source-platform/real-time-geolocation/

• Superbase : Documentation link for setup https://supabase.com/docs/guides/realtime/broadcast