NFL DRAFT README

Inspiration

This was inspired by Key & Peele's "East/West Bowl" comedy sketch(es), though this is the NFL draft (with one round) following the bowl. The players used are from season 2 video. Season 1 video can be found here

(disclaimer: the positions and year/class are made up by me (i.e., not explicity stated in the videos))

This is just a small thing I did as an excuse to mess around with Go for the first time

Routes:

/index
/players/
/test
/files/ (use this route to see contents of the /files directory, or go to /files/<file_name><file_extension>)

start:

go run *.go or go build followed by ./nfl_draft

Fetch a player:

curl --request GET --url <base_url>/players/:id

ex: curl --request GET --url http://localhost:8080/players/3

Fetch all players:

curl --request GET --url <base_url>/players/

ex: curl --request GET --url http://localhost:8080/players/

Draft a player:

url: base url id: id of the desired player

curl --request POST --url <base_url>/players/id

ex: curl --request POST --url http://localhost:8080/players/3

TODO

"appropriately" handle errors
WRITE TESTS
make an event table that records what team drafted which player (and when)
allow user to add more players to be drafted (from other seasons)
write more idiomatic Go
swagger docs (or similar) for easy visibility of available routes
DONE - reset button to "undraft" all players and start over

postgres:

sudo -u postgres psql
CREATE DATABASE players_dev;
\c players_dev
CREATE TABLE players;
insert the sample data (found in players.setup.sql)

Resources:

"Go in Practice" by Matt Butcher and Matt Farina
Go docs
Simple JSON Rest API in Go (tutorial)
Medium article "Build RESTful API in Go and MongoDB" by Mohamed Labouardy
ENABLING CORS ON A GO WEB SERVER, an article by Flavio Copes
How to not use an http-router in go, an article by Axel Wagner

Cool packages I used/learned about:

goenv

nickbouldien/nfl-draft