Building an API in Rails

Merchant endpoints

• get /api/v1/merchants - get all merchants
• get /api/v1/merchants/:id - get a certain merchant
• get /api/v1/merchants/:id/items - gets all items for a specific merchant
• get /api/v1/merchants/find?name=<query> - finds all merchants based off of a case insensitive search

Items endpoints

• get /api/v1/items - get all items
• get /api/v1/items/:id - get a certain item
• get /api/v1/items/:id/merchant - get the merchant for a specific item
• post /api/v1/items/ - create an item, body can only have the following fields:
  

{
 "name": "value1",
 "description": "value2",
 "unit_price": 100.99,
 "merchant_id": 14
}

• patch /api/v1/items/:id - update a specific item, body needs to follow the same pattern above
• delete /api/v1/items/:id - delete a specific item
• get /api/v1/items/find?name=<name> - finds one item based off of a case insensitive search in alphabetical order
• get /api/v1/items/find?min_price=<number> - finds one item that is greater than the min price in alphabetical order
• get /api/v1/items/find?max_price=<number> - finds one item that is less than the min price in alphabetical order
• get /api/v1/items/find?min_price=<number>&max_price=<number> - finds one item in the price range in alphabetical order

You can not search for a name and max/min/both prices at the same time.