Cumulocity Microservice Tutorial Part 4 (Read and display data from an external weather API & microservice settings/configuration)

aaron_kreis · February 8, 2021, 3:27pm

Introduction

This microservice will create within the microservice context every x seconds a new temperature measurement for a new created managed object.

Precondition

The tutorial is based on Microservice Tutorial Part 1a, Part 1b, Part 2 & Part 3.

Source code

https://github.com/netperformance/cumulocity-microservice-part4

Microservice preparation

See Microservice Workshop Part 2 for more details:

Create a new microservice by using postman
Get the bootstrap credentials by using postman
Configure your application.properties

Open Weather account & microservice settings

Create a new OpenWeather account.

Here you will find your API key.

API call example/check: Read weather data based on geo position e.g. Düsseldorf

http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?appid=<API_KEY>&lat=51.227741&lon=6.773456

Import the following Open Weather Java client library into your pom.xml.

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.aksingh/owm-japis -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>net.aksingh</groupId>

    <artifactId>owm-japis</artifactId>

    <version>2.5.3.0</version>

</dependency>

You can now easily send a request to OpenWeater to get the current weather data:

// Read API key from microservice settings

OWM owm = new OWM(microserviceSettingsService.getCredential("api_key")); 

// getting current weather by given city id from microservice settings

CurrentWeather currentWeather = owm.currentWeatherByCityId(Integer.parseInt(microserviceSettingsService.get("city")));

As you can see I’m reading the Open Weather API key and the city from the microservice settings by using the MicroserviceSettingsService class.

private final MicroserviceSettingsService microserviceSettingsService;

Use the following endpoint to save a property within your tenant: {{url}}/tenant/options

Body:

{
    "category": "microservice-part4",
    "key": "credentials.api_key",
    "value": "your open weather API key"
}

api.key is the API key you will get from OpenWeather.

You can encrypt data by using “credentials.” as a prefix for your property.

I will also save the city id of the German city Cologne within my tenant property:

Body:

{
    "category": "microservice-part4",
    "key": "city",
    "value": "5021807"
}

Display the data

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