Casting Agency Capstone

Project information

The Casting Agency models a company that is responsible for creating movies and managing and assigning actors to those movies. You are an Executive Producer within the company and are creating a system to simplify and streamline your process.

Installing Dependencies

Install Postgres

The prerequisite to running the app locally is to have a PostgreSQL database available in your local, and the Postgres server must be up and running. Verify the Portgres installation, and start the Postgres server using:

# Mac/Linux
# Install Postgres using Brew. Reference: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Homebrew
brew install postgresql
# Verify the installation
postgres --version
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop

PIP Dependencies

Once you have your virtual environment setup and running, install dependencies by naviging to the /backend directory and running:

pip install -r requirements.txt

This will install all of the required packages we selected within the requirements.txt file.

Set up the environment variables

After you have looked at the starter files, set up the environment variables as:

# You should have setup.sh and requirements.txt available
chmod +x setup.sh
source setup.sh
# The setup.sh will run the following:
# export DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres@localhost:5432/postgres"
# export EXCITED="true"
# Change the DATABASE_URL, as applicable to you.
echo $DATABASE_URL
# postgresql://postgres@localhost:5432/postgres
echo $EXCITED
# true

Local run

Create databases

Create database postgres for app and fsnd_capstone_test for testing. Open your terminal and run 2 commands below:

createdb postgres
createdb fsnd_capstone_test

Run application

From within the project directory, run:

python3 app.py

Run unit test

From within the project directory, run:

python3 test_app.py

Get JWT Token

Access login link below to go to login page of Auth0:

https://dev-3iqx43uaov68pisd.us.auth0.com/authorize?audience=coffee-shop&response_type=token&client_id=qVLW9l1c0uCZg4a5sOe2MVYHEOj50y58&redirect_uri=http://fsnd-capstone.com/login-success

Executive Producer account:

# Email
manager123@gmail.com
# Password
manager123@

Casting Director account:

# Email
casting123director@gmail.com
# Password
casting123director@

Casting Assistant account:

# Email
casting123assistant@gmail.com
# Password
casting123assistant@

API Documentation

GET '/movies'

• Fetches a dictionary of movies
• Request Arguments: None
• Returns: An array of movies information

{
  "success": true,
  "movies": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "You",
      "release_date": "2012-12-12"
    }
  ]
}

GET '/actors'

• Fetches a dictionary of actors
• Request Arguments: None
• Returns: An array of actors information

{
  "success": true,
  "actors": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Le Thi An",
      "gender": "female",
      "age": 25,
      "movie_id": 1
    }
  ]
}

POST '/movies'

• Sends a post request in order to add a new movie
• Request Body:

{
  "title": "You",
  "release_date": "2013-11-13"
}

• Returns: New movie information

{
  "success": true,
  "movies": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "You",
      "release_date": "2013-11-13"
    }
  ]
}

POST '/actors'

• Sends a post request in order to add a new actor
• Request Body:

{
  "name": "Le Thi An",
  "gender": "female",
  "age": 25,
  "movie_id": 1
}

• Returns: New actor information

{
  "success": true,
  "actors": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Le Thi An",
      "gender": "female",
      "age": 25,
      "movie_id": 1
    }
  ]
}

PATCH '/movies'

• Sends a patch request in order to update a new movie info
• Request Body:

{
  "title": "You",
  "release_date": "2013-11-13"
}

• Returns: Updated movie information

{
  "success": true,
  "movies": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "You",
      "release_date": "2013-11-13"
    }
  ]
}

PATCH '/actors'

• Sends a patch request in order to update an actor information
• Request Body:

{
  "name": "Le Thi An",
  "gender": "female",
  "age": 25,
  "movie_id": 1
}

• Returns: Updated actor information

{
  "success": true,
  "actors": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Le Thi An",
      "gender": "female",
      "age": 25,
      "movie_id": 1
    }
  ]
}

DELETE '/movies/${id}'

• Deletes a specified movie using the id of the movie
• Request Arguments: id - integer
• Returns: deleted movie id

DELETE '/actors/${id}'

• Deletes a specified actor using the id of the actor
• Request Arguments: id - integer
• Returns: deleted actor id