Build & Run

It's been a bit since we've been working on this project, so I had a little bit of difficulty running the new version of the router that Sean made, but it's really pretty simple. Here's how I did it.

Download Latest Version

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cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lab-D8/food-train-server
git pull origin master
// handle any merge conflicts (which are probably just old remnants) by committing them to a random throwaway branch

Build

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(if on Ubuntu, run the makefile in $GOPATH/src/github.com/lab-D8/food-train-server/Makefile) Same as before, just

go install github.com/lab-D8/food-train-server (assuming your $GOPATH goes up to _src_)

Running

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This is the one that changed. In separate terminal tabs/windows do:

mongod // starts the mongodb
food-train-server// starts the router, should output 'Hello World' to begin
nc localhost 8080 // connect to the router through netcat (hooray CS 1652!)

In the netcat window, do

GET /user/new HTTP/1.1
{"first_name":"SOME NAME HERE", "last_name":"SOME LAST NAME", "password":"hunter2", "email":"EMAIL HERE"}

After a brief delay you should see a success code in your netcat window.

• If you get a HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request then you aren't formatting your message through netcat correctly.
• If you get a HTTP/1.1 404 File Not Found then you can't correctly type '/user/new' or whatever function you're trying.
• If you get a HTTP/1.1 200 OK but you get {"description":"Error: DB","return_code":1} then you don't have 'mongod' running.
• If you get a HTTP/1.1 200 OK and you get {"description":"Success","return_code":0} then everything worked! Get programming!

Testing in your Browser

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Just follow the steps above, except instead of netcat, point your browser to 127.0.0.1:8080/friends/add or whatever function you're testing.

Then you can add arguments by following GET URL formatting:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/friends/[email protected]&[email protected]

will encode the JSON object:

{
user : [email protected],
friend : [email protected]
}