douglasmakey / ursho

URL Shortener Service in Go

Synopsis

URL Shortener Service

Run

Run with Docker

docker-compose up

Code Example

Using CURL Generate shortener\

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"url":"www.google.com"}' http://localhost:8080/encode/
<!-- Response: -->
<!-- {"success":true,"response":"http://localhost:8080/1"} -->

Redirect Open url in your browser http://localhost:8080/bN

OR

curl http://localhost:8080/1

Get info for url shortener
curl http://localhost:8080/info/1

Response:

{
 "success":true,
 "response": {
    "url":"www.google.com",
    "visited":true,
    "count":1
 }
}

Motivation

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Installation

You can install it using 'go get' or cloning the repository.

Use go get

# fetches the program
go get github.com/douglasmakey/ursho

# move to the app's directory
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/douglasmakey/ursho

Cloning the repo

We'll use github.com/user as our base path. Create a directory inside your workspace in which to keep source code:

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/douglasmakey cd "$_"

Clone repository or download and unrar in folder
git clone https://github.com/douglasmakey/ursho.git

Use GLIDE Package Management for Golang, for installation all packages

https://github.com/Masterminds/glide

Run glide install in the folder.

Select method of persistence

select the method of persistence, in which you going to work.
storage := &storages.Postgres{}

If selected Postgresql as Storage, create database

CREATE DATABASE ursho_db;

Add your config for the method of persistence and other options in file config.json\

{
  "server": {
    "host": "0.0.0.0",
    "port": "8080"
  },
  "options": {
    "prefix": "http://localhost:8080/"
  },
  "posgres": {
    "user": "postgres",
    "password": "mysecretpassword",
    "db": "ursho_db"
  }
}

API Reference

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Tests

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Contributors

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License

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