Practice Challenge - Camping Fun

Congratulations! You have been hired by Access Camp and for your first job, you have been tasked with building out a website to log campers with their activities.

In this repo, there is a Flask application with some features built out. There is also a fully built React frontend application, so you can test if your API is working (don't be afraid to use Postman as well).

Your job is to build out the Flask API to add the functionality described in the deliverables below.

This project is separated into two applications:

A React frontend, in the client directory.
A Flask backend, in the server directory.

All of the features for the React frontend are built out, so you do not need to make any changes there.

Frontend Setup

Let's take a quick tour of what we have so far.

To get started, cd into the client directory. Then run:

$ npm install
$ npm start

Then visit http://localhost:4000 in the browser to get a sense of the application.

You are not being assessed on React, and you don't have to update any of the React code; the frontend code is available just so that you can test out the behavior of your API in a realistic setting.

Backend Setup

In another terminal, run pipenv install; pipenv shell to install the dependencies and enter your virtual environment, then cd into the server directory to start running your Python code.

In this directory, you're given a bare-bones template for a Flask API application. It should look familiar to other Flask labs you've seen and has all the code set up so you can focus on building out your model and API routes (unless you would prefer to include flask-restful).

You'll be responsible for:

Creating the models and migrations.
Setting up the necessary routes to handle requests.
Performing CRUD actions and validations with SQLAlchemy.
Sending the necessary JSON data in the responses.

Instructions

You can run your Flask server from the server/ directory with:

$ python app.py

If you would prefer to include Flask Restful complete the following otherwise skip to Models section

This application is using vanilla Flask. If you would like to use flask-restful you can. To setup Flask-restful complete the following steps:

in the main install flask-restful:

$ pipenv install flask-restful

in the app.py file import Api and Resource from flask-restful

from flask_restful import Api, Resource

connect flask-restful to you app

api = Api(app)

remove the routes index route currently setup in app.py
create classes that inherit Resource (imported from flask-restful)
add resources to your api

Model

You need to create the following relationships:

A Camper has many Signups, and has many Activitys through Signups
An Activity has many Signups, and has many has many Campers through Signups
A Signup belongs to a Camper and belongs to a Activity

Start by creating the models and migrations for the following database tables:

Validations

Add validations to the Camper model:

must have a name
must have an age between 8 and 18

Add validations to the Signup model:

must have a time between 0 and 23 (referring to the hour of day for the activity)

After creating the model and migrations, run the migrations and use the provided seed.py file to seed the database:

$ flask db migrate -m'your message'
$ flask db upgrade
$ python seed.py

If you run into errors with the migrate or upgrade try:

deleting the migrations folder and the database
run the following command to restart the db setup

$ flask db init

try the migrate and upgrade commands again

Routes

Set up the following routes. Make sure to return JSON data in the format specified along with the appropriate HTTP verb.

GET /campers

Return JSON data in the format below. Note: you should return a JSON response in this format, without any additional nested data related to each camper.

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Caitlin",
    "age": 8
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Lizzie",
    "age": 9
  }
]

GET /campers/:id

If the Camper exists, return JSON data in the format below. Note: you will need to serialize the data for this response differently than for the GET /campers route. Make sure to include an array of activities for each camper.

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Caitlin",
  "age": 8,
  "activities": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Archery",
      "difficulty": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Swimming",
      "difficulty": 3
    }
  ]
}

If the Camper does not exist, return the following JSON data, along with the appropriate HTTP status code:

{
  "error": "Camper not found"
}

POST /campers

This route should create a new Camper. It should accept an object with the following properties in the body of the request:

{
  "name": "Zoe",
  "age": 11
}

If the Camper is created successfully, send back a response with the new Camper:

{
  "id": 2,
  "name": "Zoe",
  "age": 11
}

If the Camper is not created successfully, return the following JSON data, along with the appropriate HTTP status code:

{
  "errors": ["validation errors"]
}

GET /activities

Return JSON data in the format below:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Archery",
    "difficulty": 2
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Swimming",
    "difficulty": 3
  }
]

DELETE /activities/:id

If the Activity exists, it should be removed from the database, along with any Signups that are associated with it (a Signup belongs to an Activity, so you need to delete the Signups before the Activity can be deleted).

After deleting the Activity, return an empty response body, along with the appropriate HTTP status code.

If the Activity does not exist, return the following JSON data, along with the appropriate HTTP status code:

{
  "error": "Activity not found"
}

POST /signups

This route should create a new Signup that is associated with an existing Camper and Activity. It should accept an object with the following properties in the body of the request:

{
  "time": 9,
  "camper_id": 1,
  "activity_id": 3
}

If the Signup is created successfully, send back a response with the data related to the Activity:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Archery",
  "difficulty": 2
}

If the Signup is not created successfully, return the following JSON data, along with the appropriate HTTP status code:

{
  "errors": ["validation errors"]
}

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