Events App Team SpitFire

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Base URI / Live Deployment
• Local Server Setup
  • Clone The Repository
  • Install Dependencies
  • Configure Environment Variables
  • Run the Server
  • Run API Tests
• Authentication
• Endpoints
  • Authentication Endpoint
• Sample Usage
• Error Handling
• UML Class Diagram
• Limitations and Assumptions
• Authors

Introduction

Welcome to the Events App documentation for Team SpitFire! This document provides detailed information on setting up the server locally, API endpoints, authentication, sample usage, error handling, and more.

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Base URI / Live Deployment

The Events App is hosted for live testing at [insert_base_uri_here]. Replace [insert_base_uri_here] with the actual base URI where the API is deployed.

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Local Server Setup

Clone The Repository

To get started with the local development environment, clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/kevinkoech357/spitfire-events-backend.git
$ cd spitfire-events-backend

Install Dependencies

You can set up the environment using either venv or pipenv. Here are instructions for both:

Using venv:

# create Virtual Environment
$ python3 -m venv venv

# Activate Virtual Env
$ source venv/bin/activate

# Install Dependencies
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Using pipenv:

$ pip install pipenv

# create virtuel environment
$ pipenv --python 3.10

# Activate virtual env
$ pipenv shell

# install dependencies in requirements.txt or pipfile
$ pipenv install

Configure Environment Variables

Make sure to set the following environment variables:

SECRET_KEY: [Your Secret Key]
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI: [Your Database URI]
OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT: 1
ANDROID_CLIENT_ID: 
IOS_CLIENT_ID:

Run the Server

$ python3 run.py

Run API Tests

Note: ensure you are connected to the internet before running tests and are in spitfire-events directory

# install test suite and HTTP requests library
$ pip install requests pytest

# Run the tests in test_crud.py
$ pytest test_event.py -v

click for test_event.py file

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Authentication

The authentication mechanism used by this API is Google oAuth2 with session cookies see Authentication here

EndPoints

see Api Documentation here

Authentication Endpoint

POST 'API/auth'

• Retrieves a person from the database using user id
• Request Body:
  • Input: JSON with auth token.

  {
    "token": "google id token",
  }
  

• Returns: JSON response with a message and person object containing id, name and date created

Example Response

{
  "message": "success",
  "name": "user display name",
  "email": "user email",
  "avatar": "user image url"
}

status code: 200 see Api Documentation here

Sample Usage

Error Handling

Errors are returned as JSON objects in the following format with their error code

{
  "error": "error name",
  "message": "error description"
}

The API will return 5 error types, with diffreent descriptions when requests fail;

• 400: Request unprocessable
• 403: Forbidden
• 404: resource not found
• 422: Bad Request
• 429: Too Many Requests(rate limiting)
• 500: Internal server error