Description

If you are not familiar with how elections work in the UK, please see this short BBC video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRxUhGetEPQ

The results API presents a simple elections result service.

Domain

The domain for the election represents some key concepts:

• constituencyId a unique integer id to identify a location. E.g "Brent Central" is 90
• party is a short 3, or 4, letter code for a party for instance LAB = Labour, CON = Conservative etc.
• votes the number of votes gained by a party in a constituency
• share the % share of the total votes the party received

API

The API has 3 endpoints:

• GET /result/{id} to get an elections result for a given id.
• POST /result to add a new result
• GET /scoreboard to get the running totals. This is unimplemented.

Task

During your assessment we will ask you to work though the task in tasks.md with a pair. Please do not work on or complete these prior to the assessment.

Warning: If you make any changes to the code, please ensure you return it to its initial (HEAD) state before your assessment.

Prerequisites

• Java 11

Please ensure that the project builds without error within your choice of IDE. This should require no changes to the files in this repository.

To Build

macOS / 'nix

./gradlew build or ./mvnw install

Windows:

gradlew.bat build or ./mvnw.cmd install

To Run

macOS / 'nix

./gradlew bootRun or ./mvnw spring-boot:run

Windows:

gradlew.bat bootRun or ./mvnw.cmd spring-boot:run

To Test

macOS / 'nix

./gradlew test or ./mvnw test

Windows:

gradlew.bat test or ./mvnw.cmd test