alexmochu/weConnect-API-v2

(Data Persistence - API {Back-end}) WeConnect provides a platform that brings businesses and individuals together. This platform creates awareness for businesses and gives the users the ability to write reviews about the businesses they have interacted with.

weConnect-API-v2

WeConnect provides a platform that brings businesses and individuals together. This platform creates awareness for businesses and gives the users the ability to write reviews about the businesses they have interacted with.

Technology Used

The API has been built with:

• Flask micro-framework (Python 3.6)
• Postgresql Database
• JSON Web Tokens

UI templates and API Documentation

• To preview the UI, proceed to https://alexmochu.github.io .
• The UI Templates have been hosted on Github Pages
• To access the API hosted on the Heroku cloud platform -->> https://weconnect-v2-heroku.herokuapp.com/
• Access the API documentation at "https://weconnectv2.docs.apiary.io"

Features

1. Users can be able to register and create an account
2. Registered users can be able to log in

Installation

1. Ensure you have installed Python3.6+, created and an activated a virtual environment.
2. Clone the repo in your local machine inside the virtual environment you have created.
3. Navigate to the project folder(WeConnect-API-v2)
4. Install all the requirements of the project by typing: pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the API

Make Migrations

• Create this folder and file inside the main folder /instance/config.py add this two lines

SECRET_KEY = 'your_secret_key_here' SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'your_postgres_database_uri'

• Type in terminal: flask db init flask db migrate flask db upgrade

• NOTE: While on development uncomment line 20 and comment line 19 /app/__init__.py file. Reverse this while on production.

• Type in terminal: export FLASK_CONFIG=developmemt export FLASK_APP=run.py flask run

Running the Tests

API Endpoints

Resource URL	Methods	Description
/api/v2/auth/register	POST	User Registration
/api/v2/auth/login	POST	User Login
/api/v2/auth/reset-password	PUT	User can be able to reset password
/api/v2/auth/logout	DELETE	Logs out User
/api/v2/category	POST	Create a business category
/api/v2/category/all	GET	Retrieve all created categories
/api/v2/category/<category_id>	PUT	Updates a business category
/api/v2/category/<category_id>	DELETE	Deletes a business category
/api/v2/<category_id>/business	POST	Create a business with unique ID and business name
/api/v2/business/all	GET	Retrive all business created
/api/v2/business/<business_id>	GET	Retrive a business by ID
/api/v2/business/<business_id>	DELETE	Remove a business
/api/v2/<business_id>/review	POST	Add a review for a business
/api/v2/reviews/all	GET	Get all reviews
/api/v2/reviews/all/page=int:page	GET	(Paginantion)Get all reviews
/api/v2/reviews/all/page=int:page&limit=int:limit	GET	(Paginantion)Get all reviews

Pagination

Resource URL	Methods	Description
/api/v2/category/all/page=int:page	GET	(Paginantion)Retrieve all created categories
/api/v2/category/all/page=int:page&limit=int:limit	GET	(Paginantion)Retrieve all created categories
/api/v2/business/all/page=int:page	GET	(Paginantion)Retrive all business created
/api/v2/business/all/page=int:page&limit=int:limit	GET	(Paginantion)Retrive all business created

Searching

Resource URL	Methods	Description
/api/v2/search?q=	GET	Search Business by q

Searching and Filtering

Resource URL	Methods	Description
/api/v2/search?q=&location=&category=	GET	Filter Business by Location and Category