meconlin / autochallenge-rest

REST api challenge

automation-challenge REST api

This is a simple flask app with a very simple json api

It keeps count of words PUT It displays the count of all words or a specific word via GET

API Endpoints

/words - list all words and counts /word/ - GET word count or PUT word

Examples:

curl -XPUT http://localhost:5000/word/chicken -d'{"word":"chicken"}'
{
  "okay": "true"
}

curl -XGET http://localhost:5000/words
{
  "chicken": 12, 
  "taco": 2
}

curl -XGET http://localhost:5000/word/taco
{
  "taco": 2
}

Installation

This was built with Python 2.6.6

Install pip requirements

$>virtualenv env  
$>. env/bin/activate  
$>pip install -r requirements.txt  

Init DB

$>. env/bin/activate  
$>python  
>>>from words import init_db  
>>>init_db()  

Run the flask app

$>. env/bin/activate
$>python app.py

You can interact with the API on localhost:5000

Supervision

TODO:

• supervisor install instructions
• supervisor config to run this as daemon

Reference Automation Challenges