Lightning

Lightning is a real-time social media REST API, to be used in conjunction with Thunder. Lightning provides methods to request data from various 3rd party social media and cloud services, including Facebook and Twitter.

• Endpoints
• Running Locally
• Testing
• Changelog

Running Locally

• Requirements
  • Java 1.8
  • Maven 3.3.3

First, fork this repo on GitHub. Then, clone your forked repo onto your machine.

$ git clone YOUR-FORK-URL

Compile and package the source code with Maven.

$ mvn package

Run the packaged jar with the server argument.

$ java -jar application/target/application-*.jar server

Lightning should now be running on localhost port 9000.

Testing

There is a Python testing script available in the scripts directory. To run this script, make sure you are in the base lightning directory and run the following command.

$ python scripts/tester.py

There are multiple optional command line arguments for the testing script. These are described in the table below, along with their default values. Additionally, when running the script from the command line, adding the -h option will display a help message with all optional arguments.

Flag	Description	Default Value
-h --help	Display a help message.	----
-e --endpoint	The endpoint to connect to lightning with.	http://localhost:9000
-m --email	The email to make requests for.	testy@gmail.com
-p --password	The password of the user that matches the username. Should not be a hashed password.	password
-a --auth	The basic authentication credentials in the form {app_name}:{app_secret}	application:secret
-v --verbose	Provide more output information.	False

When adding new endpoints to lightning, be sure to include a new TestCase for that endpoint in the tester.py script.

Another testing option is to use HTTPie. See the wiki for each individual command.