sbauer322/link-service

Dockerized Clojure microservice supplying links from a curated collection.

link-service's Issues

Rework API so it is more conformant to REST standards

For links, something like:

• GET /api/v1.0/link/ Retrieve list of links
• GET /api/v1.0/link/:id Retrieve specific link
• POST /api/v1.0/link/ Create link
• PUT /api/v1.0/link/:id Update specific link
  DELETE /api/v1.0/link/id` Remove link

For random:

• GET /api/v1.0/link/random or perhaps GET /api/v1.0/random (?)

Additionally, return appropriate codes (e.g., 2xx for success, 4xx for errors) and bodies, where appropriate.

Guard against malformed JSON

I believe this currently returns an unhappy error or exception.

Confirm and fix as appropriate.

Allow updating of links

If we implemented tags then being able to update a previously submitted link with changed tags will become important.

Current alternative is to delete a link then re-add it.

Introduce tagging of links

Being able to provide context for a link could prove valuable. By adding an optional tag field we could allow a random link from a subset to be returned.

Dead link checking

Not certain if something like this already exists for Clojure, but it would be nice to occasionally check links to see if they are dead.

Perhaps start simple and see if they just 404 (or some other error)?

Look into the Dockerfile and confirm it is the best it can be

No harm in trying to find improvements. Also update the README to reflect the Docker coolness.