Codebase backend applicants

In order to judge your developer skills we would like you to do the following task. The task should not exceed 3 hours of working time. After that time simply stop working on the task.

Finished or unfinished we would like to see your result and a couple of words of feedback from your end in order to get a better understanding of your thought process.

Send your feedback by creating a pull-request from your repository to the original one: https://github.com/gimmenetwork/application-backend-artists

We are excited to see what you folks will be handing in!

Requirements

• PHP 7.1.3+
• MySQL
• Git skills
• Github account
• Composer skills
• Symfony 4 skills
  • Doctrine
  • Twig

Installation

• Fork this repository
• Clone your forked repository so that you can work on it
• Install the composer packages

Now you should be able to run bin/console server:run to start up your development server.

Your task

It is up to you on how you want to structure your app. Fulfill the following requirements:

1. Build a database with doctrine based on the following dataset:
   • https://gist.github.com/fightbulc/9b8df4e22c2da963cf8ccf96422437fe
   • Import the dataset by using fixtures
     • Artists and albums should get an additional property token
       • ensure that token will be unique
       • length of 6 characters
       • use App\Utils\TokenGenerator to generate a token
     • Songs
       • transform the length to seconds
2. Make the data available via the following REST endpoints:
   • GET /artists
     • show all artists with token and name
     • show related albums with token, title, cover
   • GET /artists/[token]
     • same as for GET /artists but only for the requested artist
   • GET /albums/[token]
     • show album data token, title, description, and cover
     • show related artist with token and name
     • show related songs with title and length (in minutes)
   • Response should be in JSON
   • Make sure to handle empty results with the correct response