alex-magana/el-balde

El-balde

El-balde is an API for bucket list design. It exposes an API allowing consumers to create and manage bucket lists. This API provides endpoints for the following operations.

Documentation - https://elbalde.herokuapp.com/

Endpoints - https://elbalde.herokuapp.com/api/v1

Source code - https://github.com/andela-amagana/el-balde

API Features

1. User authentication with JSON Web Tokens JWT Introduction to JWT
2. Create a new bucket list
3. List all the created bucket lists
4. Get single bucket list
5. Update this bucket list
6. Delete this single bucket list
7. Create a new item in bucket list
8. List all the created items in a bucket list
9. Get a single item in a bucket list
10. Update a bucket list item
11. Delete an item in a bucket list
12. Paginate requests with parameters page and limit e.g. /bucketlists?page=2&limit=5
13. Search bucket lists by name with parameter q e.g. /bucketlists?q=chall

System Dependencies

1. Ruby RVM or Homebrew
2. PostgreSQL
3. Bundler
4. Ruby on Rails
5. RSpec

Getting Started

1. git clone https://github.com/andela-amagana/el-balde.git

2. cd el-balde

3. bundle install

4. rake db:migrate

5. rake db:seed

6. rails server

Tests

1. cd el-balde
2. rspec

API Endpoints

All endpoints except POST /users and POST /auth/login require an authentication token for Authorization, failure to which the API will return the error.

{
  "error": "Invalid request."
}

An Authorization token takes the format below.

{
  "auth_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0LCJleHAiOjE0ODExMDE2NDYsImlzcyI6ImVsLWJhbGRlIiwiYXVkIjoiY2xpZW50In0.7U7NMCR8ea2Pv6ykozMNRwRHlLT6aFhPXpebOI8rTzw",
  "message": "Login successful."
}

EndPoint	Functionality
POST /users	Register a user
GET /users/:id	View a single user
PUT /users/:id	Update a user
DELETE /users/:id	Delete a user
POST /auth/login	Logs a user in
GET /auth/logout	Logs a user out
POST /bucketlists/	Create a new bucket list
GET /bucketlists/	List all the created bucket lists
GET /bucketlists?page=2&limit=3	List 3 bucket lists from page 2
GET /bucketlists?q=chall	Search for bucket lists containing string chall in their name
GET /bucketlists/:id	Get single bucket list
PUT /bucketlists/:id	Update this bucketlist
DELETE /bucketlists/:id	Delete this single bucket list
POST /bucketlists/:id/items/	Create a new item in bucket list
GET /bucketlists/:id/items	List all the created items in a bucket list
GET /bucketlists/:id/items?page=2&limit=3	List 3 bucket list items from page 2
GET /bucketlists/:id/items/:item_id	Get a single item in a bucket list
PUT /bucketlists/:id/items/:item_id	Update a bucket list item
DELETE /bucketlists/:id/items/:item_id	Delete an item in a bucket list

Request & Response Example

Request GET /bucketlists/1/items?page=1&limit=2

 http://elbalde.herokuapp.com/api/v1/bucketlists/1/items?page=1&limit=2
 Authorization: 'Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0LCJleHAiOjE0ODExMDE2NDYsImlzcyI6ImVsLWJhbGRlIiwiYXVkIjoiY2xpZW50In0.7U7NMCR8ea2Pv6ykozMNRwRHlLT6aFhPXpebOI8rTzw'

Response (application/json)

 [
    {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "North pole",
        "date_created": "2016-11-30  9:53:16",
        "date_modified": "2016-11-30 10:03:56",
        "done": true
    },
    {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "South pole",
        "date_created": "2016-11-30  9:53:25",
        "date_modified": "2016-11-30  9:53:25",
        "done": false
    }
]

Limitations

1. JWT tokens are invalidated by reference to persisted generated tokens.
2. COR is not supported.
3. Rate limiting is not supported.