/ms-ma--backend-test

Friends

(If you first thought on the TV comedy, you are getting old)

We are going to make a Social Network MVP. No frontend. Just an API.

We will have users that can friend other users.

Specs

Users will only have:

  • Username (unique) 5-10 characters, ONLY alphanumeric characters (no dots no commas no underscores)
  • Sign up date set on creation
  • Profile visibility:
    • Hidden: Cannot receive friendship requests
    • Public: Can receive friendship requests (DEFAULT: When signup)
  • Password 8-12 characters, ONLY alphanumeric characters (no dots no commas no underscores)

We need the following use cases:

  • Sign up user
  • Request friendship (Ensure users requesting, accepting or declining friendships are theirselves)
    • Accept friendship
    • Decline friendship (when a user gets 3 declines that user gets a forever alone badge)
  • Get user friends

Tech specs

Required

  • Good OOP and good practices. This is the most important.
  • Java (or Kotlin. If you choose Kotlin over Java be pretty sure what you do. REMEMBER: We value good OOP and good practices.)
  • No frontend
  • API
  • Use (or not) whatever framework you want
  • Do your best. Be proud of what you did. That's it.

Not needed

  • Database: You can persist everything in memory.
  • Docker: as we do not require using database or caches. We will run the application directly in local.
  • Deploy
  • Asynchrony (Neither futures nor reactive)

Preferred but not mandatory

DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS, IF YOU FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH OTHER FRAMEWORK OR BUILD SYSTEMS USE THEM. SERIOUSLY

  • Gradle over Maven
  • Spring over other frameworks

Notes

If you are going to use Authorization headers, use Basic Auth