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
• Scala
• sbt

To Build

sbt compile

To Run

sbt run

You may get a port error when you try to run this. If so, run the following command:

export PLAY_HTTP_PORT=9001

To Test

sbt test