Interview Scheduler API

Setup

Install dependencies with npm install.

Creating The DB

Use the psql -U development command to login to the PostgreSQL server with the username development and the password development. This command MUST be run in a vagrant terminal, we are using the PostgreSQL installation provided in the vagrant environment.

Create a database with the command CREATE DATABASE scheduler_development;.

Copy the .env.example file to .env.development and fill in the necessary PostgreSQL configuration. The node-postgres library uses these environment variables by default.

PGHOST=localhost
PGUSER=development
PGDATABASE=scheduler_development
PGPASSWORD=development
PGPORT=5432

Seeding

Run a the development server with npm start in the Host environment. We are only using vagrant for psql this week.

Both of these achieve the same result.

Make a GET request to /api/debug/reset with curl http://localhost:8001/api/debug/reset.
Use the browser to navigate to http://localhost:8001/api/debug/reset.

The development data is random. Each time we seed we expect to see different appointments.

Run The Server

Running the server normally

npm start

Running the server so it returns an error when saving/deleting for testing the client's error handling capabilities

npm run error

Api

Days

GET /api/days

Response

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Monday",
    "appointments": [1, 2],
    "interviewers": [1, 2],
    "spots": 0
  }
]

Appointments

GET /api/appointments

Response:

{
  "1": {
    "id": 1,
    "time": "12pm",
    "interview": {
      "student": "Lydia Miller-Jones",
      "interviewer": 1
    }
  },
  "2": {
    "id": 2,
    "time": "1pm",
    "interview": {
      "student": "Archie Cohen",
      "interviewer": 2
    }
  }
}

PUT /api/appointments/:id

Body:

{
  "interview": {
    "student": String,
    "interviewer": Number
  }
}

DELETE /api/appointments/:id

Interviewers

GET /api/interviewers