Capstone

Introduction

Capstone is a casting agency site that helps in creating movies and managing and assigning actors to those movies.

heroku Link

https://casting-agency-api.herokuapp.com/

Tech Stack

Our tech stack will include:

SQLAlchemy ORM to be our ORM library of choice
PostgreSQL as our database of choice
Python3 and Flask as our server language and server framework
Flask-Migrate for creating and running schema migrations

Main Files: Project Structure

├── README.md
├── app.py *** the main driver of the app. 
                  "python app.py" to run after installing dependences
├── config.py *** Database URLs, CSRF generation, etc
├── error.log
├── forms.py *** Your forms
├── models.py  *** Your SQL Alchemy models
├── requirements.txt *** The dependencies we need to install with "pip3 install -r requirements.txt"

Overall:

Models are located in models.py.
Controllers are located in app.py.

Roles

Casting Assistant

view:actors
view:movies

Casting Director

All permissions a Casting Assistant has
create:actor
delete:actor
update:actor
update:movie

Executive Producer

All permissions a Casting Director has
add:movie
delete:movie

Development Setup

First, install Flask if you haven't already.

$ cd ~
$ sudo pip3 install Flask

To start and run the local development server,

Initialize and activate a virtualenv:

$ cd YOUR_PROJECT_DIRECTORY_PATH/
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages env
$ source env/bin/activate

Install the dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the development server:

$ export FLASK_APP=app.py
$ export FLASK_ENV=development # enables debug mode
$ python3 app.py

Navigate to Home page

Endpoints

Endpoint	Description	Permission	Body	Response
GET /actors	Fetches actors	get:actors	None	list of actors
GET /movies	Fetches drinks	get:movies	None	list of movies
POST /actors	Creates new actor	post:actors	`{"name": "Maria","age": 25,"gender": "female"}`	actor
POST /movies	Creates new movie	post:movies	`{"category": "comedy","description": "an old","title":"GAME NIGHT"}`	movie
PATCH /actors/int:id	Updates an actor	patch:actors	`{"name": "Maria","age": 25,"gender": "female"}`	actor
PATCH /movies/int:id	Updates a movie	patch:movies	`{"title":"GAME NIGHT"}`	movie
DELETE /actors/int:id	deletes an actor	delete:actors	None	name of deleted actor
DELETE /movies/int:id	deletes a movie	delete:movies	None	title of deleted movie

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