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Vision

Create a community of like minded authors to foster inspiration and innovation by leveraging the modern web.

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Application local setup

Technologies used to build the application

1. Django
2. Django Rest-Framework
3. PostgreSQL
4. Virtualenv

Getting Started

1. Open your terminal and clone the repo with https://github.com/andela/ah-bird-box.git
2. Switch directory to the cloned project cd ah-bird-box
3. Create a virtual environment with virtualenv -p python3 venv or python3 -m virtualenv venv
4. Activate the virtual environment with source venv/bin/activate
5. Install the requirements packages with pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Setting up the database

Ensure PostgreSQL is installed

1. Start the postgres database server using pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start
2. Navigate to the psql terminal with psql postgres
3. Create a new user CREATE USER sample_username WITH PASSWORD 'sample_password';
4. Grant privileges to the user ALTER USER sample_username CREATEDB;
5. Create a database for the project CREATE DATABASE sample_database_name WITH OWNER sample_username;
6. Create a .env file under the main directory of the project and add:

source venv/bin/activate
export DATABASE_URL="postgresql://localhost:5432/database_name"
export EMAIL_SENDER="<your_email_address>"
export EMAIL_HOST="smtp.gmail.com"
export EMAIL_HOST_USER="<your_email_address>"
export EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD="<your_email_password>"
export EMAIL_PORT=587
export FACEBOOK_KEY="<facebook_key_value>"
export FACEBOOK_SECRET="<facebook_secret_value>"
export GOOGLE_OAUTH2_KEY="<google_key_value>"
export GOOGLE_OAUTH2_SECRET="<google_secret_key>"
export OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN="<oath_access_token>"

7. Do a source .env command to set the configuration variables
8. Make migrations to create tables in the database with python manage.py makemigrations
9. Run python manage.py migrate
10. Collect static files with python manage.py collectstatic

Run the server

Once everything is set up run the server using python manage.py runserver The application can be accessed in the url http://localhost:800

Testing

To test the application run tox in the terminal

API Spec

The preferred JSON object to be returned by the API should be structured as follows:

Users (for authentication)

{
  "user": {
    "email": "jake@jake.jake",
    "token": "jwt.token.here",
    "username": "jake",
    "bio": "I work at statefarm",
    "image": null
  }
}

Profile

{
  "profile": {
    "username": "jake",
    "bio": "I work at statefarm",
    "image": "image-link",
    "following": false
  }
}

Single Article

{
  "article": {
    "slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon",
    "title": "How to train your dragon",
    "description": "Ever wonder how?",
    "body": "It takes a Jacobian",
    "tagList": ["dragons", "training"],
    "createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
    "updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:48:35.824Z",
    "favorited": false,
    "favoritesCount": 0,
    "author": {
      "username": "jake",
      "bio": "I work at statefarm",
      "image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
      "following": false
    }
  }
}

Multiple Articles

{
  "articles":[{
    "slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon",
    "title": "How to train your dragon",
    "description": "Ever wonder how?",
    "body": "It takes a Jacobian",
    "tagList": ["dragons", "training"],
    "createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
    "updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:48:35.824Z",
    "favorited": false,
    "favoritesCount": 0,
    "author": {
      "username": "jake",
      "bio": "I work at statefarm",
      "image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
      "following": false
    }
  }, {

    "slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon-2",
    "title": "How to train your dragon 2",
    "description": "So toothless",
    "body": "It a dragon",
    "tagList": ["dragons", "training"],
    "createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
    "updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:48:35.824Z",
    "favorited": false,
    "favoritesCount": 0,
    "author": {
      "username": "jake",
      "bio": "I work at statefarm",
      "image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
      "following": false
    }
  }],
  "articlesCount": 2
}

Single Comment

{
  "comment": {
    "id": 1,
    "createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
    "updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
    "body": "It takes a Jacobian",
    "author": {
      "username": "jake",
      "bio": "I work at statefarm",
      "image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
      "following": false
    }
  }
}

Multiple Comments

{
  "comments": [{
    "id": 1,
    "createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
    "updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
    "body": "It takes a Jacobian",
    "author": {
      "username": "jake",
      "bio": "I work at statefarm",
      "image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
      "following": false
    }
  }],
  "commentsCount": 1
}

List of Tags

{
  "tags": [
    "reactjs",
    "angularjs"
  ]
}

Errors and Status Codes

If a request fails any validations, expect errors in the following format:

{
  "errors":{
    "body": [
      "can't be empty"
    ]
  }
}

Other status codes:

401 for Unauthorized requests, when a request requires authentication but it isn't provided

403 for Forbidden requests, when a request may be valid but the user doesn't have permissions to perform the action

404 for Not found requests, when a resource can't be found to fulfill the request

Endpoints:

Authentication:

POST /api/users/login

Example request body:

{
  "user":{
    "email": "jake@jake.jake",
    "password": "jakejake"
  }
}

No authentication required, returns a User

Required fields: email, password

Registration:

POST /api/users

Example request body:

{
  "user":{
    "username": "Jacob",
    "email": "jake@jake.jake",
    "password": "jakejake"
  }
}

No authentication required, returns a User

Required fields: email, username, password

Get Current User

GET /api/user

Authentication required, returns a User that's the current user

Update User

PUT /api/user

Example request body:

{
  "user":{
    "email": "jake@jake.jake",
    "bio": "I like to skateboard",
    "image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg"
  }
}

Authentication required, returns the User

Accepted fields: email, username, password, image, bio

Get Profile

GET /api/profiles/:username

Authentication optional, returns a Profile

Follow user

POST /api/profiles/:username/follow

Authentication required, returns a Profile

No additional parameters required

Unfollow user

DELETE /api/profiles/:username/follow

Authentication required, returns a Profile

No additional parameters required

List Articles

GET /api/articles

Returns most recent articles globally by default, provide tag, author or favorited query parameter to filter results

Query Parameters:

Filter by tag:

?tag=AngularJS

Filter by author:

?author=jake

Favorited by user:

?favorited=jake

Limit number of articles (default is 20):

?limit=20

Offset/skip number of articles (default is 0):

?offset=0

Authentication optional, will return multiple articles, ordered by most recent first

Feed Articles

GET /api/articles/feed

Can also take limit and offset query parameters like List Articles

Authentication required, will return multiple articles created by followed users, ordered by most recent first.

Get Article

GET /api/articles/:slug

No authentication required, will return single article

Create Article

POST /api/articles

Example request body:

{
  "article": {
    "title": "How to train your dragon",
    "description": "Ever wonder how?",
    "body": "You have to believe",
    "tagList": ["reactjs", "angularjs", "dragons"]
  }
}

Authentication required, will return an Article

Required fields: title, description, body

Optional fields: tagList as an array of Strings

Update Article

PUT /api/articles/:slug

Example request body:

{
  "article": {
    "title": "Did you train your dragon?"
  }
}

Authentication required, returns the updated Article

Optional fields: title, description, body

The slug also gets updated when the title is changed

Delete Article

DELETE /api/articles/:slug

Authentication required

Add Comments to an Article

POST /api/articles/:slug/comments

Example request body:

{
  "comment": {
    "body": "His name was my name too."
  }
}

Authentication required, returns the created Comment Required field: body

Get Comments from an Article

GET /api/articles/:slug/comments

Authentication optional, returns multiple comments

Delete Comment

DELETE /api/articles/:slug/comments/:id

Authentication required

Favorite Article

POST /api/articles/:slug/favorite

Authentication required, returns the Article No additional parameters required

Unfavorite Article

DELETE /api/articles/:slug/favorite

Authentication required, returns the Article

No additional parameters required

Get Tags

GET /api/tags