Tagarela

This is a sample project, demonstrating the usage of Django, Django REST Framework, Django-rest-knox.

What is Tagarela?

• It's only a sample project with a funny name.
  • Tagarela in Portuguese means Chatterbox (FYI - That's the funny part)
• It's a minified backed-RESTFul API, of a twitter-like application.

Installation:

• Python version: 3.9.11

• REQUIRED packages:

  • django>=4.0
  • django-rest-framework>=3.13.1
  • knox>=4.2.0
  • gunicorn>=20.1.0
  • psycopg2>=2.9.3

• OPTIONAL packages:

  • django-filter>=22.1
  • Markdown>=3.3.7
  • black>=22.6.0
  • pylint>=2.14.4

It's highly recommended that you use a python virtual environment.

• Tagarela is set to connect to a Postgresql database using these parameters:

       "default": {
       "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2",
       "NAME": "tagarela",
       "USER": "postgres",
       "PASSWORD": "",
       "HOST": "127.0.0.1",
       "PORT": "5432",
       }

Important:

• This project is NOT meant for production as it is!!! The Django SECRET_KEY is only a sample key for testing.
• If you want to use different database params, edit the path/to/tagarela/settings.py file.

Tagarela's Entity-Relationship Diagram

It can be run locally by following these steps:

• Activate your local environment:

mac-OS and linux:

source ./.venv/bin/activate

Windows:

/.venv/Script/activate

• Update pip and install all dependencies:

make install

or

make install-required

to install only the required packages.

Please note that some make features such as format and lint require the optional packages.

• Run migrations to the database:

make migrations

• Run locally:

make run

• Optional features:
  • make format
    • This option will format your code using the black package.
  • make lint
    • This option will perform a static code analysis using the pylint package.

Example of usage

It can be found running on Heroku

• Base URL: https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com
• Endpoints for user/account usage:
  • Register a user: /api/account/signup

       POST https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/account/signup
       Content-Type: application/json
       {
         "username": "Gabe",
         "first_name": "Gabe",
         "last_name": "Sousa",
         "password": "MySuperSafePassword",
         "email": "gabe@email.com.br"
       }

  • Login: /api/account/login

     POST https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/account/login
     Content-Type: application/json
     {
       "username": "Gabe",
       "password": "MySuperSafePassword",
     }

  • Logout from current device: /api/account/logout

     POST https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/account/logout
     Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4

  • Logout from all devices: /api/account/logoutall

     POST https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/account/logoutall
     Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4

  • See current user detail: /api/account/detail

     POST https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/account/detail
     Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4

  • List all users: /api/account/

     GET https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/account/logout
     Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4

  • Follow user by username: /api/account/follow

     PATCH http://localhost:8000/api/account/follow
     Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4
     Content-Type: application/json
    
     {
         "username": "john"
     }

  • Unfollow user by username: /api/account/unfollow

    PATCH http://localhost:8000/api/account/unfollow
    Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4
    Content-Type: application/json
    
    {
        "username": "john"
    }

• Endpoints for posts:
  • See general feed: /api/post/general

     GET https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/post/general
     Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4

  • See personalized feed (Only users being followed): /api/post/

     GET https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/post/
     Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4

  • Create a post: /api/post

    POST https://tagarela-test.herokuapp.com/api/post/
    Authorization: Token MySuperSafeToken-79e160a07bb5b976e7a87d60b4
    Content-Type: application/json
    {
       "content": "Tweet 213214!"
    }