• DotNet Core 3.1 and any supported IDE for DEV running.
• If you are not wishing to run the in memory database then
• SQL Server database.
• Azure Storage Account

das-location-api represents the inner api definition for location based information, with data taken from The Office for National Statistics and Postcodes IO. The API creates a local copy of the data for querying over, allowing you to search for locations by name or postcode

Do not run in IISExpress

It is possible to run the whole of the API using the InMemory database. To do this the environment variable in appsettings.json should be set to DEV. Once done, start the application as normal, then run the ops/dataload operation in swagger. You will then be able to query the API as per the operations listed in swagger.

You are able to run the API by doing the following:

• Run the database deployment publish command to create the database SFA.DAS.Location or create the database manually and run in the table creation scripts
• In your Azure Storage Account, create a table called Configuration and Add the following

ParitionKey: LOCAL
RowKey: SFA.DAS.Location.Api_1.0
Data: {"LocationApiConfiguration":{"ConnectionString":"DBCONNECTIONSTRING"}}

• Start the api project SFA.DAS.Location.Api

Select the operations V1 definition and choose the dataload action

POST /ops/dataload

will load data ONS for locations into the local database.

Starting the API will then show the swagger definition with the available operations.