hacktor

Hacking with KTor service in Kotlin

Running the project locally

• build and run via $ ./gradlew run
  • service will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8080/json/gson

Deploy to, and run on, heroku

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku open

• deployed here already: https://evening-fortress-09301.herokuapp.com/

Examples

• https://evening-fortress-09301.herokuapp.com/ HELLO WORLD!

• https://evening-fortress-09301.herokuapp.com/json/gson { hello: "world" }

• https://evening-fortress-09301.herokuapp.com/type/word/list/4 Inside List(type=Type(name=word), page=4)

• https://evening-fortress-09301.herokuapp.com/type/meh/edit Inside Edit(type=Type(name=meh))

• https://evening-fortress-09301.herokuapp.com/textToSpeech/Tim,%20tamer%20of%20Polly This will read out a text for you, synthesized by Amazon Polly

• https://evening-fortress-09301.herokuapp.com/translate/de/Roboter%20überall/en This translate a text from an input language (here: de/German) to an output language (here: en/English) using Amazon Translate

• https://evening-fortress-09301.herokuapp.com/content/<module_UUID>/unit/<unit_UUID> This retrieves public Trailhead content for a given unit

References (to explore)

https://ktor.io/quickstart/guides/api.html https://ktor.io/quickstart/quickstart/gradle.html https://ktor.io/samples/app/youkube.html https://github.com/ktorio/ktor-samples/blob/master/app/youkube/README.md https://proandroiddev.com/roll-your-own-streaming-music-service-with-kotlin-e5fef9edfa9f https://ktor.io/servers/deploy/hosting/heroku.html https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow https://github.com/orangy/ktor-heroku-start https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-gradle-apps-on-heroku https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/longer-cli.html https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/BinaryFilesInDB https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/largeobjects.html https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/80/binary-data.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35567696/has-anybody-ever-stored-an-mp3-in-a-redis-cache https://github.com/ktorio/ktor-clients https://www.baeldung.com/jackson-vs-gson https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33526612/how-to-change-name-of-jar-created-using-shadowjar https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Jar.html#org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Jar:destinationDirectory https://github.com/timbogit/hacktor