Data manipulation REST API

Endpoints to manipulate JSON data
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. Roadmap
5. Contributing
6. License
7. Contact
8. Acknowledgments

About The Project

The idea of this project is to manipulate the data through REST endpoints.

For each operation, the endpoint receive the data to manipulate in the body and the params as query parameters.

There is no logging on purpose.

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Built With

This small REST API relies on NodeJS and Express.

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Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

Install NodeJS. This has been tested with the versions 18 and 20.

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/yannick-beot-sp/data-manipulation.git

2. Install NPM packages

   npm install

3. Change git remote url to avoid accidental pushes to base project

   git remote set-url origin yannick-beot-sp/data-manipulation
   git remote -v # confirm the changes

4. Run the server

   npm start

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Usage

By default, any successfull operation returns a 200. Any invalid parameter would result in a 400.

Test / Healthcheck

GET /?name=<name>

Parameters

name	type	data type	default	description
Name	Optional	String	World	N/A

Response 200 (application/html)

Hello <name>!

Extract a property from an array of objects

POST /extract?property=<name>

Parameters

Name	Required	data type	description
name	Y	String	name of the property to used from objects inside the array

Body

Array of objects. The Array can be empty. The body can be empty

Example

[
   {
       "id": "1954bab361a145d6b828c3456f9d4592",
       "name": "PRISM ERP - Report Admin",
       "description": "Grants report administrator access to the PRISM ERP system."
   },
   {
       "id": "69a487be846f458caa6b5549a38defca",
       "name": "PRISM ERP - User Access",
       "description": "Grants user access to the PRISM ERP system"
   }
]

Response 200 (application/json)

Array of string

Add an element (string or object) to an array

POST /addRow?value=<value>

Parameters

name	Required	data type	description
value	Y	JSON Object	It must be a valid JSON object. To add a string, the string must be between double quotes

Body

Array of objects. The Array can be empty. The body can be empty

Example

[
   {
       "id": "1954bab361a145d6b828c3456f9d4592",
       "name": "PRISM ERP - Report Admin",
       "description": "Grants report administrator access to the PRISM ERP system."
   },
   {
       "id": "69a487be846f458caa6b5549a38defca",
       "name": "PRISM ERP - User Access",
       "description": "Grants user access to the PRISM ERP system"
   }
]

Response 200 (application/json)

Array of objects

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Roadmap

TBD

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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