POLITICO-API

POLITICO API Is a pure Flask REST API app that serves endpoints for political parties,government offices, petitioning,voting and user login and sign up to be consumed by front end frameworks.

Endpoints

Url Prefix - /api/v1/

Version 1

ENDPOINT	METHOD	STATUS
/offices	GET	Gets List of offices
/offices	POST	Adds an office to List of offices
/parties	GET	Gets List of Parties
/parties	POST	Adds a party to list of parties
/parties/<party_id>	GET	Gets a specific party
/parties/<party_id>/name	PATCH	Updates Name value of a party
/parties/<office_id>/name	PATCH	Updates Office value of a office
/parties/<party_id>	DELETE	Deletes Specified Party
/offices/<office_id>	DELETE	Deletes Specified Office
/offices/<offices_id>	GET	Gets a specific office
/users	POST	Adds User to List Of Users

Url Prefix - /api/v2/

Version 2

ENDPOINT	METHOD	STATUS
/offices	GET	Gets List of offices
/offices	POST	Adds an office to List of offices
/parties	GET	Gets List of Parties
/parties	POST	Adds a party to list of parties
/parties/<party_id>	GET	Gets a specific party
/parties/<party_id>/name	PATCH	Updates Name value of a party
/parties/<office_id>/name	PATCH	Updates Office value of a office
/parties/<party_id>	DELETE	Deletes Specified Party
/offices/<office_id>	DELETE	Deletes Specified Office
/offices/<offices_id>	GET	Gets a specific office
/auth/signup	POST	Sign Up A User
/auth/login	POST	Login An Existing User
/offices/<office_id>/register	POST	Sign Up A Candidate For An Office
/offices/<office_id>/register	GET	Get A Candidate For A Specific Office
/auth/login	POST	Login An Existing User
/votes/	POST	Users Can Vote
/office/<office_id>/results	POST	Users Can Vote

Author

David Odari

Testing and Running Of App

Heroku

App Link Hosted On Heroku

POLITICO-API on Heroku

API Documentation

POLITICO DOCS

Local Machine

1. From your terminal clone The Repository on your machine \ it will be on develop branch git clone https://github.com/Davidodari/POLITICO-API.git

2. Start virtual env if is installed and created ,with python 3\ . venv/bin/activate
   to install the virtual env if missing use
   pip3 install virtualenv
   and create virtual environment using the
   python3 -m venv venv

   Then Run The Above Commands to activate the virtual env when on the root folder of the project which will be Politico API

3. Install Flask in Virtual Environment

   • The terminal will be instatiate a virtual env and appear similar to what is shown below
     (venv)blackcoder@blackPC:~/POLITICO-API$
   • Then Run
     pip install -r requirements.txt
     to download required packages for Flask

4. Run Flask App

   • Then run the following commands to set up the environment and config in the terminal
     • export FLASK_APP=run.py
     • export FLASK_ENV=development
     • export FLASK_DEBUG=1 ,This will reduce need to restart server in case you make changes
   • A link to where the app is hosted will appear in the terminal as shown in the below format

         * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
   

   • With the above link apply a url prefix /api/v1 such that its http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/v1/endpoints

5. Using an API Test Client like Postman or Insomnia you can run the above endpoints for each request. The Bodys of Requests are below\

   Models

   Office

   {
   "name":"office_name",
   "type":"office_type"
   }
   

   Party

   {
   "name":"party_name",
   "hqAddress":"party_address",
   "logoUrl":"party_logo"
   }
   

   User

   {
   "firstname":"first_name",
   "lastname":"last_name",
   "othername":"other_name",
   "email":"dedaap@them.mail.com",
   "phoneNumber":"+123442211",
   "password":"password"
   }
   

   As for update just use name key and value on offices and parties

6. For unit tests on the root folder run pytest --cov api tests command and tests will automatically be run with coverage If not installed run the following command in terminal to install pytest with coverage in venv and run above
   pip install -U pytest-cov