Re: [Taler] sandcastle-ng: API-key for "default" merchant instance

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi Florian,

Am 15.11.24 um 16:02 schrieb Florian Dold:

> I've tried
>       to clarify overrides a bit in the README.md of sandcastle-ng.
>       
>

Are you talking about a recent change? I can't spot one (just pulled master a minute ago.)

If you mean former changes: I do not understand this. I understand that this is flexible. Anyhow, the "demo" deployment is the default and thus scripts/demo/setup-sandcastle.sh. So explaining how this can be customized in more details would make live easier for newbies.

Relevant FMPOV is:

• What has to be adjusted to setup an integration development environment (running on localhost vs. running on another machine in my local network; changing hostname).
• What is recommended to adjust?
• Other useful adjustments (e.g USE_INSECURE_SANDBOX_PASSWORDS accompanied with a big warning)
  
• How to adjust? (e.g. environment variables when starting sandcastle, overrides, how do overwrites work)

>  >
>       Where are these overrides are documented? From the code I guess
>       that
>       
> > this has to go into a file
> >         "./overrides/demo". Right?
> >         
> >       
>       
>       You would create an override specific to your environment, where
>       you'd change e.g. MYDOMAIN to something else than demo.taler.net.
>       
>

Well, I'm only interested in having a local environment to test my integration with. So I'm not setting anything yet.

Maybe it's worth spending some more words on how "your environment" is meant to be done. The sandcastle Readme also mentions deployment.git, which AFAIU do not actually need (esp. is says "manage the … deployments … at https://taler.net/").

> If you
>       want to do larger changes, you could just create a modified copy
>       of the demo setup script in scripts/$NAME/setup-sandcastle.sh and
>       set the environment variable SANDCASTLE_SETUP_NAME=$NAME before
>       starting the sandcastle container via ./sandcastle-run.
>

The Readme is a bit terse on how to actually set this variable. I assume this is

SANDCASTLE_SETUP_NAME=$NAME ./sendcastle-run

This would not work for USE_INSECURE_SANDBOX_PASSWORDS, or?

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Hartmut Goebel

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