/email-capture-service

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Email Capture Service

Prerequisites (Google Cloud, Java, Python, IntelliJ, GitHub)

Install Google Cloud SDK

  • Task a: Install google cloud sdk

Do

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java11/quickstart

Do

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java11/building-app

Install IntelliJ IDEA (needed to edit Java code)

  • Task b: Install IntelliJ IDEA

Setup GitHub (source control)

  • Task c: Setup GitHub account
  • Task d: Install git

Capture emails (post request to database, send email)

Publish landing page

  • Task 1: Get template landing page hosted on the Internet
  • Task 2: Modify the landing page to customize it for your business
  • Task 3: Modify the landing page to send a post request to a url with a fake campaign_id and the entered email address

Save email addresses

  • Task 4: Create an email endpoint to receive the email post request
  • Task 5: Create a database table to save email addresses
  • Task 6: Save the email address received to the email database table

Send email response

  • Task 7: Modify the email endpoint to send a thank you response email

This is now functional!

Process emails (restful processing, database)

Administrative pages (add authentication)

  • Task 8: Create an administrative website for restricted access
  • Task 9: Add authentication to the website for administrative pages
  • Task 10: Add an administrative user account

Get the list of email addresses (get request to return a list)

  • Task 11: Add an endpoint that returns the list of emails
  • Task 12: Add a web page that displays the list of emails

Add products (post request to create records in the database)

  • Task 13: Create a web page to post a product
  • Task 14: Create a product endpoint to receive the product post request
  • Task 15: Create a database table to save products
  • Task 16: Save the product received to the product database table

Add campaigns (containment database relationships)

  • Task 17: Create a web page to post a campaign
  • Task 18: Create a campaign endpoint to receive the campaing post request
  • Task 19: Create a database table to save campaigns
  • Task 20: Save the campaign received to the campaign database table

Associate emails to products by campaign (aggregate database relationships)

  • Task 21: Modify the email endpoint to look up the campaign
  • Task 22: Create a database table to save the product-email associations
  • Task 23: Modify the email endpoint to create the product-email association
  • Task 24: Modify the email listing to show the products an email is interested in

Email templates (using templates)

  • Task 25: Create an email template to use for sending the thank you response email
  • Task 26: Modify the thank you response email to use the template
  • Task 27: Create a web page to post an email template
  • Task 28: Create an endpoint to receive an email template
  • Task 29: Create a database table to save the email template
  • Task 30: Save the email template received to the email template database table
  • Task 31: Use the email template to send the thank you response email

Scheduling tasks (restful, database, sending emails)

Schedule email (more restful)

  • Task 32: Create an endpoint to receive a scheduled email
  • Task 33: Create a database table to save the scheduled email
  • Task 34: Create a web page to post a scheduled email
  • Task 35: Save the scheduled eamil to the scheduled email database table

Send scheduled emails (running scheduled tasks)

  • Task 36: Create a scheduled process that sends scheduled emails
  • Task 37: Fetch scheduled emails to send
  • Task 38: Send emails

Campaign flow (scheduling the next task)

  • Task 39: Modify the scheduled process to schedule the next email template as a scheduled email