How to setup ArangoDB replication via the ArangoDB Go driver - go

Question

I need to set up a simple replication schema with a secondary database. I figured out that using arangosh I can set it up with the following commands:
db._useDatabase("myDB");
require("#arangodb/replication").setupReplication({
endpoint: "tcp://main-server:8529",
username: "user",
password: "pass",
verbose: false,
includeSystem: false,
incremental: true,
autoResync: false,
autoStart: true,
restrictType: "include",
restrictCollections: [ "Products" ]
});
This setup, however does not seem to persist. Connection going down, or server restarts make it disappear.
So, I would like to set up some monitoring and re-establishment of the replication in my Go program.
I searched both the ArangoDB website Manual pages, and Go driver documentation but I could not find anything that would allow me to run the above setup in Go using the driver.
Additionally, I didn't find how I could interface with arangosh, and possibly run the JS code above and get the results. Is that possible somehow using the Go driver?

Answer 1

I accidentally found a solution to this.
The Golang driver does not provide this functionality. But Arango has a pretty simple HTTP based API which allows access to all functions and features of the database engine.
Here's the link to the documentation I used: https://www.arangodb.com/docs/3.8/http/index.html
(I'm using version 3.8 because after that the type of replication I needed was no longer part of the community edition).
Setting up a replication requires just two steps:
PUT request to the /_db/yourDBname/_api/replication/applier-config with a JSON payload:
{
"endpoint":"tcp://serverIP:8529",
"database":"yourDBname",
"username":"root",
"password":"password",
"autoResync": true,
"autostart":true
}
And another PUT request to get the replication actually started, to /_db/yourDBname/_api/replication/applier-start . This one doesn't need any payload
And to see how things are going you can do a GET request to /_db/yourDBname/_api/replication/applier-state
All these requests need a JWT token that you can get with a POST request to /_open/auth with a payload of:
{
"username": "user",
"password": "passwd"
}
The token you receive will need to be included in the HTTP header as a bearer token. Pretty simple.