# Section 6: Run Final Application

## Overview

It is time to test our completed application! Follow the steps on this page to test and run the deployed application.

## Steps

Before testing our application, we need to run a couple of services locally -

1. To run the persister service locally -
   * Run Kafka.
   * Open egov-persister folder which should be present under core-services repository.
   * Update the following properties in application.properties file -

     ```
     spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/{LOCAL_DATABASE_NAME}

     egov.persist.yml.repo.path=file://{ABSOLUTE_PATH_OF_PERSISTER_CONFIG_FILE}
     ```
2. To run indexer service locally (optional) -

   * Run Kafka.
   * Run ElasticSearch.
   * Open egov-indexer folder which should be present under core-services repository.
   * Update the following properties in application.properties file -

   ```
   egov.indexer.yml.repo.path=file://{ABSOLUTE_PATH_OF_INDEXER_CONFIG_FILE}
   ```

For **example**, the path to config files would be something like -

```
egov.indexer.yml.repo.path=file:///Users/nithin/Documents/eGov/egov-repos/core-services/egov-indexer/src/main/resources/collection-indexer.yml
```

To run and test our sample application, follow the below steps -

1. Ensure that Kafka, Persister, Indexer and PDF services are running locally and run the code of voter-registration-service from DIGIT\_DEVELOPER\_GUIDE branch (for consistency).
2. Port-forward the following services -
   * egov-user to port 8284 (for e.g. - `kubectl port-forward egov-user-58d6dbf966-8r9gz 8284:8080`)
   * egov-localization to port 8286 (for e.g. `kubectl port-forward egov-localization-d7d5ccd49-xz9s9 8286:8080`)
   * egov-filestore to 8288 (for e.g. `kubectl port-forward egov-filestore-86c688bbd6-zzk72 8288:8080`)
   * egov-mdms to 8082 (for e.g. `kubectl port-forward egov-mdms-service-c9d4877d7-kd4zp 8082:8080`)
3. Run birth-registration-service that we just created.
4. Import the postman collection of the APIs that this sample service exposes from here -[Birth Registration Postman Collection](https://github.com/egovernments/Digit-Core/blob/postman-birth-update/tutorials/backend-developer-guide/btr-services/birth-registration-service-stage-4-postman-collection.json)
5. Setup environment variables in Postman:
   * hostWithPort - Eg. yourserver.digit.org:8080 or yourserver.digit.org if the service is running on port 80.
   * applicationNumber - used in the search/update requests to search for that specific application number. Set it post the create birth registration application call.

{% hint style="info" %}
In case no workflow has been configured, run the scripts to configure and search for workflow. Double-check ID gen by running the ID gen script.

a. Hit the \_create API request to create a voter registration application.

b. Hit the \_search API request to search for the created voter registration applications.

c. Hit \_update API request to update your application or transition it further in the workflow by changing the actions.
{% endhint %}