[Spike] End to End test Shopping example in cloud with APIConnect

[deepakrkris]

Test prerequisites

0. Modify the shopping app to include the APIC OpenAPI enhancer. This allows the LB-generated OpenAPI spec includes APIC specific metadata.
1. Deploy shopping example in a cloud service (ibm , aws, etc)
2. Generate open api spec for all the api endpoints and services from the shopping example
3. Make minor modifications to the imported api spec, as per suggestions in spike [Spike] API Connect / LoopBack 4 integration #4115 This is no longer needed (hopefully) with the APIC OpenAPI enhancer
4. Publish all APIs to an APIC instance
5. End to End test shopping example thru APIC datapower gateway.

Acceptance criteria

We should ensure:

• All shopping example endpoints are invocable thru IBM APIConnect
• All security features in the shopping example are tested

See the specific tests needed in the shopping app tests on top of the todo list app test: #4498 (comment)

Shopping app test is required for:

1. Testing for authentication and authorization
2. Various model relations
3. Various filter and query options

cc @raymondfeng @bajtos @dhmlau

[dhmlau]

Deploy shopping example in a cloud service (ibm , aws, etc)

Since the purpose is to try out the integration instead of testing on different cloud services, I'd suggest we simply use IBM Cloud. It might be easier since we've done that before, and less learning curve there.

[emonddr]

@deepakrkris , while you are doing this, please create an internal document (for the loopback team) of all the steps you had to perform to set this up and test API Connect. Thanks.

[deepakrkris]

@dhmlau let me try to do some simple tests with IBM cloud and see if it is doable. AWS was much simpler for me.

[dhmlau]

@deepakrkris, I'd like to have a proper priority on this task, so I have a few questions:

• what are the differences between the test that you've done in spike [Spike] API Connect / LoopBack 4 integration #4115 vs this task?
• Is it because we didn't test for protected endpoints in spike [Spike] API Connect / LoopBack 4 integration #4115?

Thanks.

[deepakrkris]

@deepakrkris, I'd like to have a proper priority on this task, so I have a few questions:

• what are the differences between the test that you've done in spike [Spike] API Connect / LoopBack 4 integration #4115 vs this task?
• Is it because we didn't test for protected endpoints in spike [Spike] API Connect / LoopBack 4 integration #4115?

Thanks.
would like to have a proper priority on this task.

Shopping app test is required for:

1. Testing for authentication and authorization
2. Various model relations
3. Various filter and query options

Todo example comparatively has very less scope for testing.

[dhmlau]

Thanks. Let me add it to the acceptance criteria too.