README.md

Aviation weather app

Simple website built using flask, allowing for checking aviation weather for airports around the world. Uses weather data from NOAA Aviation Weather Center.

Installation

1. Clone this repository

2. Install required dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

   and install metar.py

3. Setup elasticsearch

   1. Download and install elasticsearch
   2. Download airports.csv from this link and import it into Elasticsearch, set ident, municipality and name field types to text or the search functionality will not work correctly
   3. Set ELASTICSEARCH_URL environmental variable
   4. Set SEARCH_INDEX_NAME to the name of the index you created while importing airports.csv

4. Set FLASK_APP environmental variable to avw
   using linux

   export FLASK_APP="avw"

   using windows (powershell)

   $env:FLASK_APP="avw"

5. Set SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI environmental variable to correct SQLite database URI (use sqlite:// for in memory database)

6. Set SECRET_KEY environmental variable to a randomly generated string. For generation, may use

   python -c 'import os; print(os.urandom(16))'

7. Generate necessary tables in the database
   Open flask shell with

   flask shell
   

   and run

   from avw import db
   from avw.models import User
   
   db.create_all()

Usage

Run the app with

flask run

Testing

Run tests with

pytest