Implement a URL shortening service using Django in compliance with the requirements below.
Implement a URL shortening service using Django in compliance with the requirements below. Use any additional software necessary. DO NOT use any 3rd-party URL shortening services, APIs or libraries. Format your code according to the PEP8 recommendations (you are free to choose your own favourite line length though). Document the options you've considered, their trade-offs and your decisions in the Readme file. Upload your solution to a public repo on GitHub and send us a link to it.
docker-compose builddocker-compose up- There should now be two servers running:
- http://localhost:8000 Django APP
- http://localhost:3000 React app
To run in detach mode, execute docker-compose up command in two steps:
docker-compose up --detach backenddocker-compose up --detach frontend
To create a super user, execute this command:
docker-compose run backend python manage.py createsuperuser
http://localhost:8000/admin/
To execute tests, we must enter this command:
python manage.py test
Or using docker compose:
docker-compose run backend python manage.py test
To generate the short URL I had to generate a unique, short ID that would allow me to determine to which long url does it belong. First idea was to use Django UUIDField, but it generates a 32 element string which is too long for this problem, although it would be completely unique. Then I tried using the uuid package. I would get the hex value and get only the first 8 characters, but I noticed that it uses only numbers and lower case letters which would come to 36^8 unique values. This might be enough but we can do better. So I decided to generate my own unique ID. I took all of the ascii letters (lower case and upper case), joined them with 10 digits and got 62^8 unique values. The short URL ID can be shorter by one or two elements, if there would not be a lot of trafic.