Tipster

A simple service for submitting, retrieving, and commenting on tips

API

Creating a tip:

$ curl -XPOST -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d \
    '{ "username": "ted", "message": "Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K" }' \
    http://172.24.0.50/tips
    
  {
    "username": "bill",
    "id": 1,
    "updated": "20170322T051207.097Z",
    "message": "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K",
    "created": "20170322T051207.097Z"
  }

Retrieving tips

For a specific tip, just append the id to the tips endpoint:

$ curl http://172.24.0.50/tips/1
    
  {
    "username": "bill",
    "id": 1,
    "updated": "20170322T051207.097Z",
    "message": "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K",
    "created": "20170322T051207.097Z"
  }

To get all tips, just get the tips resource with no additional path:

$ curl http://172.24.0.50/tips
  [ 
    {
      "username": "bill",
      "id": 1,
      "updated": "20170322T051207.097Z",
      "message": "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K",
      "created": "20170322T051207.097Z"
    }
  ]

Commenting on tips

Once a tip has been created, you can add comments by posting to its comments URI:

$ curl -XPOST -H 'Content-type: application/json' \
       -d '{ "username": "bill", "comment": "Bogus." }' \
       http://172.24.0.50/tips/1/comments
    
  {
    "username": "ted",
    "tipId: 1,
    "id": 1,
    "updated": "20170322T051207.097Z",
    "message": "Bogus.",
    "created": "20170322T051207.097Z"
  }

Retrieving comments

The comments for a tip can be retrieved from its comments URI;

$ curl http://172.24.0.50/tips/1/comments
  [   
    {
      "username": "ted",
      "tipId: 1,
      "id": 1,
      "updated": "20170322T051207.097Z",
      "message": "Bogus.",
      "created": "20170322T051207.097Z"
    }
  ]

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Build and Unit Test
  • A Java 8 JDK install (tested with OpenJDK)
• Packaging
  • A Docker Engine (tested with Docker CE 17.03.0)
• Run and Integration Test
  • A Docker Engine (tested with Docker CE 17.03.0)
  • Docker Compose (tested with docker-compose 1.11.2)

Building

This repository includes a copy of Paul Phillips's sbt-extras sbt launcher, so you don't have to have sbt itself installed. Instead, just invoke the sbt script in this directory, and an appropriate version of sbt will be downloaded automatically and run. If you've already downloaded sbt using the script, it will be cached.

To build the app and run all the unit tests run ./sbt test in the project directory.

Packaging, Integration Testing, and Running

This project uses the sbt-native-packager to build a Docker image using the local Docker Engine. The Docker image can then be run manually, which will require providing the rest of the runtime dependencies like Postgresql to the container through environment variables or configuration, or, more conveniently, by using the included docker-compose.yml file. The compose file is also used to set up the environment to run the integration tests.

To build the docker image, run ./sbt docker:publishLocal

To run the integration tests, run ./sbt integrate. The integration tests will ensure that the app image is built and executing in the docker-compose environment.

To run the docker image using docker-compose, first build the image as above, then run docker-compose up or, from the sbt console, dockerCompose up. The service will be available (through the nginx proxy) at http://172.24.0.50/. The other services in the environment will be available at automatically assigned addresses within the 172.24.0.0/24 subnet.

To run the app in a local jvm while using the environment from the docker-compose file, first bring up the environment: docker-compose up. It is not necessary to shutdown the instance of the service running in docker, but you can do so by running docker-compose down tipster. Then you can run tipster in a local jvm by running ./sbt run. If you want to attach a debugger, then you can run ./sbt -jvm-debug <port> run and then configure your IDE to connect to the debugger on the specified port