cz-czan/shift_manager

A shift-manager application.

Django web-app written for a recruitation at TeamWay.

Setup

Install django and DRF:

pip install django djangorestframework 

Start a django project

django-admin startproject <project-name>

Move the shift_manager directory to the project root.

Add the app and DRF to INSTALLED_APPS in the project's settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'shift_manager',
    'rest_framework'
]

Set the default permissions classes in settings.py as follows ( paste at the bottom of the file ):

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    # Use Django's standard `django.contrib.auth` permissions,
    # or allow read-only access for unauthenticated users.
    'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': [
        'rest_framework.permissions.DjangoModelPermissionsOrAnonReadOnly'
    ]
}

Make migrations and then migrate:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Add the app's urlpatterns to the project's urls.py as follows:

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path('', include(shift_manager.urls))
]

Usage

Run the development server at localhost:8000:

python manage.py runserver

Shifts are available under the /api/shifts/ endpoint, employees under /api/employees/

Use this command:

python manage.py create_shifts_for_week.py

or simply send a GET request to /api/shifts/ to create and save to the database all the shifts for this week.

Send a PUT request to the shift endpoint to assign an employee to a shift, referencing the employee by their id field.

Run tests with:

python manage.py test