REST API: Interview 1

Write an HTTP GET method to retrieve information from an articles database. The query response is paginated and can be further accessed by appending to the query string &page=num where num is the page number.

Given a string of author, your solution must perform the following tasks:

1. Query https://jsonmock.hackerrank.com/api/articles?author=authorName&page=num (replace authorName and num).
2. Initialize the titles array to store a list of string elements.
3. Store the name of each article returned in the data field to the titles array using the following logic:
   • If title is not null, use title as the name.
   • If title is null, and story title is not null, use story_title as the name.
   • If both title and story_title are null, ignore the article.
4. Based on the total_pages count, fetch all the data (pagination) and perform step 3 for each.
5. Return the array of titles.
6. Cache the results to avoid further requests being made to the API.

The query response from the website is a JSON response with the following five fields:

• page: The current page.
• per_page: The maximum number of results per page.
• total: The total number of records in the search result.
• total_pages: The total number of pages that must be queried to get all the results.
• data: An array of JSON objects containing article information

Conditions

• Write your code following the TDD approach.
• Do not use web frameworks (e.g. Flask, Django, etc.).

Instructions

1. Fork this repository.
2. Write your solution.
3. Commit and push your changes.

Evaluation Criteria

• Code quality (clean, readable, maintainable).
• Test quality (coverage, assertions, etc.).
• Solution completeness.
• Performance.
• Architecture (design, separation of concerns, etc.).