OfferUp Backend Coding Challenge

Super simple micropservice for retrieving price recommendations for a given item in a given city.

Requirements

Uses Django and Django Rest Framework.

Targetting vagrant with Ubuntu 14.04 with 1 CPU and 1024MB RAM.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/nullpuppy/ouchallenge cd ouchallenge vagrant up vagrant ssh cd /vagrant source env/bin/activate uwsgi --ini ouchallenge/owsgi-vagrant.ini

API

Endpoint	Description
GET /item-price-service/?item=&city=	Retrieve Pricing recommendation based on item and city

Example

GET /item-price-service/?item=Furniture&city=Philadelphia

{
    "status": 200,
    "content": {
        "item": "Furniture",
        "item_count": 6,
        "price_suggestion": 33,
        "city": "Philadelphia"
   }
}

GET /item-price-service/?item=Furniture

{
    "status": 200,
    "content": {
        "item": "Furniture",
        "item_count": 6,
        "price_suggestion": 33,
        "city": "Not Specified"
   }
}

GET /item-price-service/

{
    "status": 404,
    "content": {
        "message": "Not Found",
   }
}