REST API server to determine the flight path of a person

Story: There are over 100,000 flights a day, with millions of people and cargo being transferred around the world. With so many people and different carrier/agency groups, it can be hard to track where a person might be. In order to determine the flight path of a person, we must sort through all of their flight records.

Goal: To create a simple microservice API that can help us understand and track how a particular person's flight path may be queried. The API should accept a request that includes a list of flights, which are defined by a source and destination airport code. These flights may not be listed in order and will need to be sorted to find the total flight paths starting and ending airports.

Requirements

• gvm Go 1.22

  gvm install go1.22 --prefer-binary --with-build-tools --with-protobuf
  gvm use go1.22 --default

  • nmv Node 19.9.0

    nvm install 19.9.0
    nvm use 19.9.0
    npm install yarn --global
    npm install npm --global
    npm install -g pnpm
    pnpm add -g pnpm

• Newman (a CLI to run Postman/Newman collections)

  npm install --location=global newman

Help

Usage: make COMMAND
Commands :
help            - List available tasks
deps            - Download and install dependencies
api-docs        - Build source code for swagger api reference
test            - Run tests
build           - Build REST API server's binary
run             - Run REST API locally
release         - Create and push a new tag
update          - Update dependencies to latest versions
open-swagger    - Open browser with Swagger docs pointing to localhost
test-case-one   - Test case 1 [["SFO", "EWR"]]
test-case-two   - Test case 2 [["ATL", "EWR"], ["SFO", "ATL"]]
test-case-three - Test case 3 [["IND", "EWR"], ["SFO", "ATL"], ["GSO", "IND"], ["ATL", "GSO"]]
e2e             - Run Postman/Newman end-to-end tests

Start REST API server

make run

Run test cases

make test-case-one
make test-case-two
make test-case-three

SwaggerUI

Take a look at autogenerated REST API Documentation

Swagger API documentation - http://localhost:8080/swagger/index.html

API Endpoint documentation

API Endpoint documentation

        "/calculate": {
            "post": {
                "description": "get the flight path of a person.",
                "consumes": [
                    "application/json"
                ],
                "produces": [
                    "application/json"
                ],
                "tags": [
                    "FlightCalculate"
                ],
                "summary": "Determine the flight path of a person.",
                "operationId": "flightCalculate-get",
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "description": "Flight segments",
                        "name": "flightSegments",
                        "in": "body",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "array",
                            "items": {
                                "type": "array",
                                "items": {
                                    "type": "string"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "array",
                            "items": {
                                "type": "string"
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "500": {
                        "description": "Internal Server Error",
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "additionalProperties": true
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

GitHub CI

GitHub CI has following steps:

• Checkout
• Set up Node.js (needed to run Postman/Newman end-to-end tests)
• Install dependencies
• Install Newman
• Set up Go
• Test
• Build
• Run
• Wait for REST API
• Run Postman/Newman end-to-end tests

Postman/Newman end-to-end tests

Utilized Postman collection exported to JSON file and executes same use cases as Makefile targets test-case-one test-case-two test-case-three