Biblia Sacra Vulgata is an Apache 2.0 licenced, open-sourced API project primarily serving the Original Latin Vulgate ( ✝️ Biblia Sacra Vulgata) and its English Translation - Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) with study notes. In addition to the Vulgate, it will also support the other versions and/or translations of the Scriptures approved by the Church in the future.
This API does not employ a backing database, in lieu, uses an in-house built in-memory data store, which allows for constant time look-ups. In other words, the user get lightning fast replies 💨.
This API is designed to be lenient (or forgiving 🥺, if you will) with the requests, given the nature of the content served by the application. For example, If the user requests verses 2 through 30 from a chapter with only 20 verses, the application would respond with the available information (verses 2 through 20) rather than throwing an error. This is a conscious design decision and contributors are solicited to be mindful of it.
Caution: This application is not production-ready yet. Check out the releases tab for the first release.
The official version of the app is shipped as docker images 🐟. However, if you wish to contribute or tweak the app for personal use, you may proceed with the following steps.
- ☕️ Java v11.0 or above
- Gradle (optional) - If you do not have Gradle installed, you could possibly get away with the included Gradle Wrapper.
- 💡 IntelliJ Idea (optional) - I personally prefer this IDE for its incredible support for building JVM applications. But, hey, your preferred IDE would do just fine too! 😊
After cloning the project, here are some gradle scripts to trigger some customary functionalities.
./gradlew clean test
./gradlew clean assemble
./gradlew clean run
Disclaimer: Some parts of the CPDV or the Latin Vulgate may look different from the versions used in the Church today (verse number, and such. You can read about it here). Hence, it is adviced to use the Vulgate for study and the newer translations (which, by the way will become available in this application soon!! 🙌🏼 🎉 🎊) in/for the Divine Liturgy.
To contribute, feel free to fork and create PRs! 😇