Volume Senior Software Engineer Take-Home Programming Assignment for Golang
The calculate endpoint accepts POST requests. The request must include one or more flights inside the body, where each flight is represented by a pair of airports that are connected by a direct flight.
The request body should be a JSON array object, containing JSON array objects, contaning two values, the first being the start airport and the second the end airport:
[["EZE","MIA"],["MIA","BRA"],["BRA","EZE"],["EZE","NYC"]]The response in case of success is a JSON array object contaning two values, the first being the start airport and the second the end airport:
["EZE","NYC"]| Status code | Description |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input data. All airport names should contain 3 letters. |
| 400 | Not all flights are connected. |
| 400 | Start and end airport are the same, it is not possible to determine with the current information which is the starting. |
| 405 | Only POST requests are supported on this endpoint. |
| 500 | Internal error. |
Example error response:
{
"code": 400,
"message": "not all flights are connected"
}Start the web service with the following command: go run ./cmd/webservice it will start listining at the port 8080
Execute this simple example and try it out!
curl -sS -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '[["BRA","EZE"],["EZE","MIA"],["MIA","BRA"],["EZE","NYC"]]' \
http://localhost:8080/calculate \
| jq .