Photo API and Pinterest Clone MVC Website

C#/.NET Core API that allows access to photo URLs. Current version: 04.01.20

By Krista Rutz, Sarah "Sasa" Schwartz, Adela Darmansyah

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Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Setup/Installation Requirements
3. Specifications
4. Known Bugs
5. Technologies Used
6. License

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WHAT WE WORKED ON 03.30.20

• PhotoApi.Solution application

  • Scaffolding an API using .NET
  • Adding CRUD functionality to our photo controller
  • Using parameters in GET requests to filter results from the database
  • Matching usernames from POSTs to PUT/DELETE requests
  • Parsing database objects to match parameter queries (with #hashtags)
  • Using Data Annotations, including a RegEx data expression
  • Attempted to integrate many-to-many relationships, before realizing this is better suited to NoSQL databases

WHAT WE WORKED ON 03.31.20

• PhotoApi.Solution application

  • Reviewed weekend readings and finish this week's readings
  • Styled our app to act like pinterest and show real photos
  • Finished CRUD functionality with MVC
  • Built pagination into the api photosController

WHAT WE WORKED ON 04.1.20

• PhotoApi.Solution application

  • Added ability to count the number of photo objects returned from API
  • Access this count from our MVC and display it dynamically in the view
  • Add pagination functionality to our MVC Client
  • Added search by tag with compatibility with pagination

WHAT KRISTA WORKED ON 04.2.20

• PhotoApi.Solution application
  • Added Identity and configured EF and MySQL to PinterestClone project
  • User authentication & authorization required for C-U-D but not R
  • Account controller and views
  • Some style changes to forms and image gallery
• Other
  • Team week meetings
  • troubleshooting MySQL and .Net Core versioning

Still left to do...

• (PinterestClone) Create MVC part of our app

  • Users/account login (remove "fixed" username with photo posts)
  • Index for a specific user's photos?

• Swagger/any documentation

• API versioning (Adela?)

• (PhotoApi) Add token-based authentication

• PinterestClone format Navbar --
  • "PinterestClone": index home - show a landing page/splash page
    • no API call
  • "Home": photos index - shows all photos
    • API GET - getAll()
  • "You/yourname": photos index with parameter passed - API GET - getAll(userName = "my_name")

Description

C#/.NET Core API that allows access to photo URLs. This API includes all CRUD functionality to create, view, update, and delete photos in the database.

Installation Requirements

• Clone the repository on Github
• Open the terminal on your desktop
• $git clone "insert your cloned URL here"
• Change directory to the PhotoApi directory, within the PhotoApi.Solution directory
• $dotnet restore
• Recreate my database structure with migration:
  • $dotnet ef migrations add Initial
  • $dotnet ef database update
• Call this API with your web application or test out the requests using Postman.

User Stories

• As a user, I want to be able to GET all photos related to a specific tag.
• As a user, I want to be able to POST photos to a specific tag.
• As a user, I want to be able to see a list of all tags.
• As a user, I want to input date parameters and retrieve only photos posted during that timeframe.
• As a user, I want to be able to PUT and DELETE photos, but only if I posted them.

Known Bugs

• No known bugs

Technologies Used

• C#
• .NET

License

• This software is licensed under the MIT license.