Challenge

Structure

"id": string, required
"name": string, required, min 2 characters
"signupTime": int64 (unix millisecond), required, min time year 1850

Endpoints:

Set a user object
Get a user by id
[BONUS] List all users

Requests must be correctly validated, and the response status code must correctly match the type of error The errors should be shown to the user!

[BONUS] Requires basic authentication for any operation (the credentials can be hard-coded for the sake of testing) (user:idt, pass:leaf)
[BONUS] The listening port of the server can be configured with a command line argument (can be set in .env or passed with command)

Notes

In general, the returned errors should contain a meaningful reference to the function call chain, so that it is easy to understand where the errors happened Please provide reference on how to run and test the app

WHY's

Gin: light weight, high perfomance, great documentation, fantastic middleware pattern that I'm familiar with in nodejs/express
GO ORM: Full-Featured ORM, associations, Migrations, Support community and more
SQLite: quick development without having to install specific dbms & drivers

Installation

go get

Run

create .env file from the provided sample
```
cp .env.example .env
```
replace 8080 with any port number as you wish
```
export PORT=8080 && go run main.go
```

Testing

go test

Extra

Use https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/ to investigate the sqllite file
messagingApp-architecture(maxahirwe)

Author

@maxahirwe

maxahirwe / goleaf