README.md

RecordProcessor

Input

A record consists of the following 5 fields: last name, first name, gender, date of birth and favorite color. The input is 3 files, each containing records stored in a different format. You may generate these files yourself, and you can make certain assumptions if it makes solving your problem easier.

• The pipe-delimited file lists each record as follows:
  • LastName | FirstName | Gender | FavoriteColor | DateOfBirth
• The comma-delimited file looks like this:
  • LastName, FirstName, Gender, FavoriteColor, DateOfBirth
• The space-delimited file looks like this:
  • LastName FirstName Gender FavoriteColor DateOfBirth

You can run the application via the command line by passing in 3 file paths to the files containing records along with a sort option 1 thru 3:

Assumptions

• All record data contained in the files contains valid data. No fields are empty and dates are in the format M/D/YYYY.
• The project's base directory is C:\RecordProcessor
  • If you are not running under this directory you will need to update paths to the record files to get the Api working.
  • You can change the paths in the Global.asax.cs file. Find the field RecordPaths and update to your current base path.

Output

Create and display 3 different views of the data you read in:

• Output 1 – sorted by gender (females before males) then by last name ascending.
• Output 2 – sorted by birth date, ascending.
• Output 3 – sorted by last name, descending.

API

Within the same code base, build a standalone REST API with the following endpoints:

• POST /records - Post a single data line in any of the 3 formats supported by your existing code
• GET /records/gender - returns records sorted by gender
• GET /records/birthdate - returns records sorted by birthdate
• GET /records/name - returns records sorted by name

It's your choice how you render the output from these endpoints as long as it well structured data. These endpoints should return JSON.