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End Points

🔶 - requires authentication with JWT (JSON Web Tokens). Token is given in a HTTP response when author is initially registered. NOTE: Fields with a bracket next to them indicates their default values. If not stated, assume the default will be blank/empty string (this only applies for optional fields, required fields are just that; they cannot be blank)

Authentication (local)

/service/auth/register

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
POST Registers an author displayName: max 200 char
password: min 8 char, max 128 char 		github: in URL format

Example response:

{
    "user": {
        "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
        "github": "",
        "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/"
    },
    "refresh": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImV4cCI6MTY3MTM5NDQ3OCwiaWF0IjoxNjY3MDc0NDc4LCJqdGkiOiJiYTkxMDU5NWQ4ZTU0YzYxOGVkOGRiYzM2ZDNhNTc4ZSIsInVzZXJfaWQiOiJodHRwOi8vMTI3LjAuMC4xOjgwMDAvYXV0aG9ycy84YjY0NDhjYy0zNWZlLTQwNjktYTNmNi0wYjQ5YTdlMjU5YmMifQ.oSqLFMPRgDRl--yl2qPkEVqTi_Ub4IDo4lTGBI86CO0",
    "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjY3MDg1Mjc4LCJpYXQiOjE2NjcwNzQ0NzgsImp0aSI6IjQwYmRhYzQ5NTkwOTRjOGFiMzkxZDQ2ZmU1MDY3Y2E2IiwidXNlcl9pZCI6Imh0dHA6Ly8xMjcuMC4wLjE6ODAwMC9hdXRob3JzLzhiNjQ0OGNjLTM1ZmUtNDA2OS1hM2Y2LTBiNDlhN2UyNTliYyJ9.R0FJRPynUR_O146woqsmKTCq_u1Ni0hSvCsptvDaARo"
}

The "token" field would then be stored and used by the client, by putting the token in the Authorization header of the client's request message: Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN_HERE> But we note here that the token has a limited lifetime, and the client should check for the expiry time and request for a refresh token when that time has passed.

/service/auth/login

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
POST Logs in an author displayName: max 200 char
password: min 8 char, max 128 char

Example response:

{
    "refresh": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImV4cCI6MTY3MTM5NDc1NSwiaWF0IjoxNjY3MDc0NzU1LCJqdGkiOiI3ODkwNDJhZTI5NDk0NDUzYmEwMjFlZDhjMmI2NDlhMCIsInVzZXJfaWQiOiJodHRwOi8vMTI3LjAuMC4xOjgwMDAvYXV0aG9ycy84YjY0NDhjYy0zNWZlLTQwNjktYTNmNi0wYjQ5YTdlMjU5YmMifQ.rcSscEFfW7UtVcGbLNmK9bMJ6QsJAeQIHgtd-el3Ie8",
    "access": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjY3MDg1NTU1LCJpYXQiOjE2NjcwNzQ3NTUsImp0aSI6IjVkNTZjZjZjNGI2NDRhMWQ5NzA2YTM4ZjA1NDM4OTU1IiwidXNlcl9pZCI6Imh0dHA6Ly8xMjcuMC4wLjE6ODAwMC9hdXRob3JzLzhiNjQ0OGNjLTM1ZmUtNDA2OS1hM2Y2LTBiNDlhN2UyNTliYyJ9.eD30TfT28KZgzlO7rGRPpxe9Uh0DeH1ahZOuuFCT3g0",
    "user": {
        "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
        "uuid": "8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
        "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
        "displayName": "bruh",
        "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
        "github": "",
        "profileImage": "",
        "is_active": true,
        "is_superuser": false,
        "type": "author",
        "followers": []
    }
}

/service/auth/refresh

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
POST Refreshes a token refresh: the refresh token

Example response:

{
    "access": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjY3MDg1NjM2LCJpYXQiOjE2NjcwNzQ0NzgsImp0aSI6ImNlODU1MGMyNDQ4NDRmNjY4MDIyZmI5YzRhMWMxOGZmIiwidXNlcl9pZCI6Imh0dHA6Ly8xMjcuMC4wLjE6ODAwMC9hdXRob3JzLzhiNjQ0OGNjLTM1ZmUtNDA2OS1hM2Y2LTBiNDlhN2UyNTliYyJ9.ZpELUK59oPGAb545oIBxz3nyGNFWAWh6Hsd8zZUk2m0",
    "refresh": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImV4cCI6MTY3MTM5NDgzNiwiaWF0IjoxNjY3MDc0ODM2LCJqdGkiOiI0MmFhMzA3MjY2MjE0NjNjYjBhY2E0NTc4NTNiMGM1ZCIsInVzZXJfaWQiOiJodHRwOi8vMTI3LjAuMC4xOjgwMDAvYXV0aG9ycy84YjY0NDhjYy0zNWZlLTQwNjktYTNmNi0wYjQ5YTdlMjU5YmMifQ.Q-5J7oN9wNSTN3uf8CuLEMPoBy1bWxB823XD-keK4Tw"
}

Note here that the field refresh should be sent through the body, and is the token that is from the 'refresh' field received when registering/logging in, and NOT the token from the access/token field.

Authors

/service/authors/

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET(paginated) Retrieves all the authors on the server

Example response:

{
    "type": "authors",
    "items": [
        {
            "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
            "uuid": "d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
            "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
            "displayName": "ray",
            "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
            "github": "",
            "profileImage": "",
            "is_active": true,
            "is_superuser": true,
            "type": "author",
            "followers": []
        },
        {
            "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "uuid": "8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
            "displayName": "bruh",
            "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "github": "",
            "profileImage": "",
            "is_active": true,
            "is_superuser": false,
            "type": "author",
            "followers": []
        }
    ]
}

/service/authors/<author_id>/

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Retrieves the user with UUID specified in <author_id>
POST🔶 Updates the user with the all the specified fields host: where the author is hosted
displayName: max 200 char, must be unique
url: the URL to the author's profile
github: URL field
profileImage: URL link to author's profile image
PATCH🔶 Partially updates the user with the specified fields

Example response:

{
    "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
    "uuid": "d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
    "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
    "displayName": "ray",
    "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
    "github": "",
    "profileImage": "",
    "is_active": true,
    "is_superuser": true,
    "type": "author",
    "followers": []
}

Posts

/service/authors/<author_id>/posts/

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Retrieves all the posts of the author with UUID <author_id>
POST🔶 Creates a post for author with UUID <author_id>, id auto generated contentType: max 200 char \ supported mimetypes: [text/markdown, text/plain, application/base64, image/png:base64, image/jpg:base64]
visibility: choose from [FRIENDS, PUBLIC]		 title: max 50 char
source: URL field, the link where the post we got from
origin: URL field, the link where the post is originally from
description: max 300 char
content: the content.
categories: list containing the categories
unlisted [default: False]: boolean

Example response:

{
    "type": "posts",
    "items": [
        {
            "uuid": "9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
            "type": "post",
            "title": "A test post!",
            "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
            "source": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
            "origin": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
            "description": "",
            "contentType": "text/plain",
            "content": "There's some stuff here.",
            "categories": "",
            "count": 0,
            "comments": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0/comments",
            "published": "2022-10-29T20:44:19.604440Z",
            "visibility": "PUBLIC",
            "unlisted": false,
            "author": {
                "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
                "uuid": "d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
                "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
                "displayName": "ray",
                "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
                "github": "",
                "profileImage": "",
                "type": "author"
            },
            "commentSrc": {
                "comments": [],
                "type": "",
                "id": "",
                "contentType": "",
                "published": "",
                "comment": "",
                "author": null
            }
        }
    ]
}

NOTE:

In regards to image posts, it is assumed that the encoding of the image to base64 is done on the client end. If making a post with an image, the client can send two requests to create two posts:

The first post is the image post, with the base64 image string in the content field with the correct contentType. Image posts are always unlisted. The client should then receive the JSON object of the new image post's info. In that JSON object, there should be an image field that contains the link to the image of the image post.

The second post is a normal post (non-image) and the image field of this new post can be set to the same link in the image post's image field.

/service/authors/<author_id>/posts/<post_id>

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Gets the public post of author <author_id >at <post_id>
POST🔶 Updates the post <post_uid> from author with UUID <author_id> title: max 50 char
source: URL field, the link where the post we got from
origin: URL field, the link where the post is originaly from
description: max 300 char
content: the content.
categories: list containing the categories
contentType: max 200 char \ supported mimetypes: [text/markdown, text/plain, application/base64, image/png:base64, image/jpg:base64]
visibility: choose from [FRIENDS, PUBLIC]
unlisted: boolean
PATCH🔶 Partially updates the post <post_uid> from author with UUID <author_id> title: max 50 char
source: URL field, the link where the post we got from
origin: URL field, the link where the post is originaly from
description: max 300 char
content: the content.
categories: list containing the categories
contentType: max 200 char \ supported mimetypes: [text/markdown, text/plain, application/base64, image/png:base64, image/jpg:base64]
visibility: choose from [FRIENDS, PUBLIC]
unlisted: boolean
PUT🔶 Creates a post for author with UUID <author_id>, id generated from the post_id specified in the request URL. e.g. PUT http://localhost//service/authors/asgkljg/posts/asd/ generates a post with id=asd. NOTE: the ID MUST BE A UUID4!!! same as above
DELETE🔶 Deletes the post <post_id> from author <author_id>

Example response:

{
    "uuid": "9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
    "type": "post",
    "title": "A test post!",
    "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
    "source": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
    "origin": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
    "description": "",
    "contentType": "text/plain",
    "content": "There's some stuff here.",
    "categories": "",
    "count": 0,
    "comments": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0/comments",
    "published": "2022-10-29T20:44:19.604440Z",
    "visibility": "PUBLIC",
    "unlisted": false,
    "author": {
        "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
        "uuid": "d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
        "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
        "displayName": "ray",
        "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
        "github": "",
        "profileImage": "",
        "type": "author"
    },
    "commentSrc": {
        "comments": [],
        "type": "",
        "id": "",
        "contentType": "",
        "published": "",
        "comment": "",
        "author": null
    }
}

/service/authors/<author_id>/posts/<post_id>/image

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Gets the image of the IMAGE post at <post_id>, if it exists. Result is a binary image, and can be used in html img tags.
Example: <img src="//service/authors/<author_id>/posts/<post_id>/image">
NOTE: IT ONLY RETRIEVES THE IMAGE IF THE POST IS AN IMAGE POST i.e THE CONTENT OF THE POST IS A BASE64 ENCODED IMAGE STRING!

Comments

/service/authors/<author_id>/posts/<post_id>/comments/

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET(paginated) Gets the comments of post <post_id> of author <author_id>
POST🔶 Adds a comment to post <post_id> of author <author_id > comment: max 200 char

Example response:

{
    "type": "comments",
    "page": 1,
    "size": 5,
    "post": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0",
    "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0/comments",
    "comments": [
        {
            "uuid": "9c0362a5-4627-42ea-b0a6-8e065a8bbb72",
            "author": {
                "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
                "uuid": "d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
                "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
                "displayName": "ray",
                "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
                "github": "",
                "profileImage": "https://media.tenor.com/OpZ2m8MSSLwAAAAC/mob-psycho-shy.gif",
                "type": "author"
            },
            "type": "comment",
            "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0/comments/9c0362a5-4627-42ea-b0a6-8e065a8bbb72",
            "contentType": "text/markdown",
            "published": "2022-10-29 00:00:00",
            "comment": "pls"
        }
    ]
}

Likes

/service/authors/<author_id>/posts/<post_id>/likes

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Gets the list of likes from other authors of post <post_id> of author <author_id>

Example response:

{
    "type": "likes",
    "items": [
        {
            "summary": "bruh likes your post",
            "type": "Like",
            "author": {
                "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
                "uuid": "8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
                "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
                "displayName": "bruh",
                "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
                "github": "",
                "profileImage": "",
                "type": "author"
            },
            "object": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0"
        }
    ]
}

/service/authors/<author_id>/posts/<post_id>/comments/<comment_id>/likes

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Gets the list of likes from other authors of <author_id> post <post_id> on comment <comment_id>

Example response:

/service/authors/<author_id>/liked

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Lists the like objects of public posts that <author_id> liked

Example response:

{
    "type": "liked",
    "items": [
        {
            "summary": "bruh likes your post",
            "type": "Like",
            "object": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0"
        }
    ]
}

Followers

/service/authors/<author_id>/followers/

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Gets the followers of author <author_id>

Example response:

{
    "type": "followers",
    "items": [
        {
            "type": "author",
            "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "uuid": "8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
            "displayName": "bruh",
            "github": "",
            "profileImage": ""
        }
    ]
}

/service/authors/<author_id>/followers/<foreign_author_id>

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Checks if <foreign_author_id> is friends with <author_id>. Returns a Boolean.
PUT🔶 Adds <foreign_author_id> as a follower of <author_id>.
DELETE🔶 Removes <foreign_author_id> from the followers list of <author_id>. NOTE: Only <foreign_author_id> needs to be authorized to use this method. This is so then <foreign_author_id> can unfollow without needing <author_id>'s permission.

Inbox

/service/authors/<author_id>/inbox/

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET🔶 Gets the posts in the inbox of author <author_id>
POST Sends an object to the inbox of author <author_id>
OBJECTS MUST FOLLOW THEIR FORMATS AS SEEN IN PROJECT SPECS.
DELETE🔶 Clears the inbox of author <author_id>

/service/authors/<author_id>/inbox/all

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET🔶 Gets items of all types (not just posts) in the inbox of author <author_id>

Example response:

{
    "type": "inbox",
    "author": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8",
    "items": [
        {
            "summary": "bruh likes your post",
            "type": "Like",
            "author": {
                "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
                "uuid": "8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
                "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
                "displayName": "bruh",
                "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
                "github": "",
                "profileImage": "",
                "type": "author"
            },
            "object": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/d5feb01d-934b-4d7f-9455-11596efc8fa8/posts/9fc6ae0b-c0a6-4af5-bf26-41f16c45d1d0"
        }
    ]
}

Object types and their respective formats

Friends

/service/authors/<author_id>/friends/

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Gets the friends list of author <author_id>

Example response:

{
    "type": "friends",
    "items": [
        {
            "id": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "uuid": "8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "host": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
            "displayName": "bruh",
            "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/authors/8b6448cc-35fe-4069-a3f6-0b49a7e259bc",
            "github": "",
            "profileImage": "",
            "type": "author"
        }
    ]
}

/service/authors/<author_id>/friends/<foreign_author_id>

Method Description Required Fields Optional Fields
GET Checks if <foreign_author_id> is a friend of <author_id>
Returns a boolean

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