Book Publication - Flask API

This API is developed by using python flask. The key features of this API are :

Features

• Built with pure python | Flask
• User authentication
• CRUD operations for book(s) & user(s)
• Test implementation with python's pytest
• In-Built Swagger Documentation

API Reference

User operation(s)

  POST /signup

Parameter	Type	Description
username	string	*Required. Username
email	string	*Required. Email-id
password	string	*Required. Password

  POST /login

Parameter	Type	Description
email	string	*Required. Email-id
password	string	*Required. Password

  PUT /update-dp

Parameter	Type	Description
image	string($binary)	*Required. Image

  PUT /update-user-info

Parameter	Type	Description
username	string	*Optional. Username
email	string	*Optional. Email-id
password	string	Optional. Password

  GET /user

Parameter	Type	Description
None	None	return current user info

  DELETE /delete-user

*Deletes current logged in user account/info from DB.

  GET /logout

Parameter	Type	Description
None	None	log out current user

Book Publication operation(s)

  POST /addbook

Parameter	Type	Description
title	string	*Required Title of the book
description	string	*Required Description of the book
priority	number	*Required Priority of the book
status	string	*Required Current status of the book

  PUT /updatebook/{id}

Parameter	Type	Description
title	string	*Required Title of the book
description	string	*Required Description of the book
priority	number	*Required Priority of the book
status	string	*Required Current status of the book

  GET /getbook/{id}

Returns (example):

{
  "created_at": "2022-08-08 07:50:36.556437",
  "description": "my book description",
  "id": 14,
  "priority": "2",
  "status": "Available",
  "time_since_published": "1:00:47.154837",
  "title": "The gret title",
  "updated_at": "2022-08-08 07:51:46.677554",
  "user": "[email protected]"
}

  DELETE /deletebook/{id}

*Deletes the book from DB (after permission check).

Swagger Documentation

The Swagger API docs for the app can be accessed via

  /api/docs

All the available features can be accessed at Swagge docs.

Running Tests via Pytest

The test_users.py & test_publishers.py files contains all available unit tests

To run tests, use the following steps

• Steps to run test(s) FOR User and Publication methods/routes:

    STEP-1:
        - start virtualenv and run the app.py (i.e flask app)

    STEP-2:
        - activate the same virtualenv in another shell/cmd window
        - run `pytest -s test_users.py` command
        - the test result(s) will be seen on console with response message(s)