This challenge is related to the Podbox's connector developer position.
This repository contains the skeleton of a web application whose purpose is to display the top 10 music tracks of the week along with a Spotify player.
Your goals are to:
- make a service that call the Billboard's feed to retrieve the 100 hottest tracks of the week: http://www.billboard.com/rss/charts/hot-100
- make a service that call the Spotify api to search a track: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/search-item/
- implement the
com.podbox.challenge.ChartsService.getHot10method to retrieve the top 10 with the optional corresponding Spotify URI. - when you like your solution, you can submit it by sending us your proposal to
rd+challenge@podbox.com
Of course, you can add any dependencies and libraries you want. However, you are not expected neither to modify the client code nor to add new server functionalities.
You can see a running version of a solution here: https://podbox.herokuapp.com/. The heroku app can be slow to startup and be careful that your ad or script blocker is not preventing from embedding the Spotify player.
- by the simplicity of your solution
- if you find a way to make the calls to Spotify in parallel (be careful...)
Notes:
- we will test your submission by running the project with
./gradlew bootRunand then going to http://localhost:8080/. Make sure this works! - we will spend about half an hour reviewing your submission, so don't waste days writing too much code (it is just a challenge)
Enter the challenge!
- retrieve this skeleton repository
- install the jdk8 on your computer (this is a Java Spring web application)
- launch the web application with
./gradlew bootRun - visit http://localhost:8080/ in your browser
- press
ctrl+cin the terminal to stop the web application