Movies from 2009-2020

Movies is a Flask database-driven web application the provide details of movies from 2009-2020. Data displayed in the web application is obtained from DANIEL GRIJALVA's movie industry database on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/danielgrijalvas/movies?resource=download).

Main features

There are six templates in this web application where three of them are main pages and three remaining are detail pages.

• Main pages
  • Movie page
    • showing all movies from 2009-2020 saved in the database
  • Rating System page
    • showing all ratings used in the database with system, definition and explanation of the rating
  • Genre page
    • showing all genre used in the database with the genre name and description.
• Detail pages
  • Movie detail page
    • By clicking a particular movie name on any web pages, details of the movie will be shown.
  • Rating movie page
    • By clicking a particular rating on movie page, rating page and genre movie page, details of the rating including system, definition and explanation will be shown along with all movies with that rating
  • Genre movie page
    • By clicking a particular genre on movie page, genre page and rating movie page, description of the genre will be shown along with all movies inside that genre

A horizontal navigation bar is showing in the top of every web page allow users to navigate to the respective main pages. Links are embedded into the data shown in the table columns movie title, rating and genre.

Where to view

Web application hosted on Render: https://cs551p-movie.onrender.com/

Dependencies

Dependencies are avilable in requirements.txt

behave==1.2.6
click==8.0.4
dataclasses==0.6
Faker==14.2.1
Flask==2.0.3
gunicorn==20.1.0
importlib-metadata==4.8.3
itsdangerous==2.0.1
Jinja2==3.0.3
MarkupSafe==2.0.1
parse==1.19.0
parse-type==0.6.0
python-dateutil==2.8.2
selenium==3.141.0
six==1.16.0
typing_extensions==4.1.1
urllib3==1.26.14
Werkzeug==2.0.3
zipp==3.6.0

Running in Codio virtual environment

pyenv install 3.7.9
pyenv local 3.7.9
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install flask
export FLASK_APP=movie.py
export FLASK_ENV=development
python3 -m flask run -h 0.0.0.0

Maintenance

Latest code should be pull from GitHub to for deployment in Render. At most two websites can be opened at once from the Render deployed link. The number of rows of data in movies_edit.csv can be increased when the rating.csv and genre.csv are updated respectively. However, the server ability on Render should also be considered when adding more data rows.

Testing

Behave is used. Behavior-based development (BDD) tests with Given When Then pattern is used for testing the user stories in form of scenarios. All BDD testing related files are placed in features folder.

Documents

Git log: git-log.txt

Submission report: CS551P submission report 52210984.pdf

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Cloudy030

Documentation

Documentation is placed in the code's comments.

Background

This is an assessment of course Advanced Programming (CS551P) for Master of Information Technology (MScIT) from University of Aberdeen (UoA). It is required to develop a database-driven web application using Flask and deploy the developed website with Render.

This is a production of Ho Pok Nga in March 2023.