The goal of this exercise is to test if you know your way around developing REST APIs in Python using docker. You can use any rest framework and database of your choice. Approach it the way you would an actual long-term project.
To start with, a Dockerfile (with Python3.7 Alpine image) has been provided for you. A docker-compose file with stubs for a sample SQL and a NoSQL database has also been provided. Feel free to change it as per your choice of database.
Tasks
Your task is to build a JSON-based REST API for your frontend developers to consume. You have built a list of user stories with your colleagues, but you get to decide how to design the API.
We do not need you to implement users or authentication, to reduce the amount of time this exercise will take to complete. Ideally, you should not spend more than about 4 hours total working time on the exercise, but can be completed over as long a period as is required.
Required:
- Ability to import all episodes of all seasons of
Game of Thronesfrom OMDb API. (You will have to get an APIKey from http://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx to use their API) The APIs that should probably be used are in the following format: http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Game of Thrones&Season=1&apikey= http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=&apikey= (for an episode) - Design the data model to store this data. You need not store all the attributes of an episode. Select the ones you think are important.
- Create GET API endpoints that can return episode information in a list format, as well as information for a specific episode, when retrieved by id
Nice to have:
- Design a data model to store basic text comments to be associated with a specific episode, along with a GET API to retrieve all of the comments for an episode
- Design and implement a separate CRUD API for these text comments.
- Ability to filter episodes where
imdbRatingis greater than 8.8 for a season or for all seasons. - Write some unit tests