Topic 8. Homework | FastAPI | Building a REST API | Application Architecture

Objective

The goal of this homework assignment is to create a REST API for storing and managing contacts. The API should be built using the FastAPI framework and should use SQLAlchemy for database management.

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Technical Task Description

1. Contacts

To store the contacts in your system, you need to organize a database that will contain all the necessary information.

The information should include:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Email Address
• Phone Number
• Birthday
• Additional Information (optional)

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2. API

The API you develop should support basic data operations. Below is the list of actions your API should be able to perform:

• Create a new contact
• Retrieve a list of all contacts
• Retrieve a single contact by ID
• Update an existing contact
• Delete a contact

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3. CRUD API

In addition to the basic CRUD functionality, the API should also support the following features:

• Contacts should be searchable by first name, last name, or email address (Query parameters).
• The API should be able to retrieve a list of contacts with birthdays in the next 7 days.

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General Requirements for Homework Completion

• Use the FastAPI framework to create the API.
• Use the ORM SQLAlchemy to interact with the database.
• PostgreSQL should be used as the database.
• Support CRUD operations for managing contacts.
• Support storing the contact's date of birth.
• Provide Swagger documentation for the REST API.
• Use the Pydantic module for data validation.

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