Welcome to our coding challenge, hope you enjoy it!
We need your help migrating a legacy social network service.
This service have users that can friend other users and offers an HTTP API to do so.
The use cases that need to be implemented are:
- Sign up
- A new user requests to register to our service, providing its username and password.
- Username must be unique, from 5 to 10 alphanumeric characters.
- Password from 8 to 12 alphanumeric characters.
- Request friendship
- A registered user requests friendship to another registered user.
- A user cannot request friendship to himself or to a user that already has a pending request from him.
- Accept friendship
- A registered user accepts a requested friendship.
- Once accepted both users become friends forever and cannot request friendship again.
- Decline friendship
- A registered user declines a requested friendship.
- Once declined friendship can be requested again.
- Friends
- List friends of a registered user.
There is one drawback, we have to maintain the API of the legacy service, which is awful but nothing we can do 😞. We hope we can refactor the API in a future iteration, but not in this challenge.
So we provide you with an initial implementation of controllers under package com.schibsted.spain.friends.legacy that fulfill the legacy API and you can work from there.
The legacy team has provided us with a script that you can execute to check if your implementation is on the right path.
Just execute bash -c scripts/legacy-test while your service is running and expect all checks to pass.
This script uses bash and should work just fine in macOs and linux. In windows you can use git-bash.
No database needed, you can persist everything in memory.
We expect from you to apply good practices and be proud of what you do. Good luck!
./gradlew bootRun