sort-and-fetch

Command Line App that reads a file containing records in different formats and sorts the records. Comes with a REST API to access the same data

Accepted formats

1. Pipe Delimited LastName | FirstName | Gender | FavoriteColor | DateOfBirth
2. Comma Delimited LastName, FirstName, Gender, FavoriteColor, DateOfBirth
3. Space Delimited LastName FirstName Gender FavoriteColor DateOfBirth

REST API Endpoints

1. Post /records - Accepts a record, or a json array of records in any of the 3 above formats

         #### Accepted Formats for POST Request
         
         # single json record in any of the above formats
         "LastName | FirstName | Gender | FavoriteColor | DateOfBirth"
         
         # json array of records
         [
           "LastName | FirstName | Gender | FavoriteColor | DateOfBirth",
           "LastName | FirstName | Gender | FavoriteColor | DateOfBirth",
         ]
   

2. GET /records/gender - Returns all records in json format, sorted by gender (female before male), then last name ascending

3. GET /records/birthdate - Returns all records in json format, sorted by birth date ascending

4. GET /records/name - Returns all records in json format, sorted by name

Notes

1. One assumption I made is that every record in a file will be in the same format
2. There are test cases in the records folder
   • json files are used for the POST request
   • txt files are used as input files to the command line application

Requirements

NodeJS https://nodejs.org/en/

How To Run

# run REST API on localhost:3000 and begin command line app!
npm start