Eliminated database lookup (twitter won't let us authorize xauth

authentication)

Author: ericblau

CHALLENGE.md

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+#Professional Services Engineer Coding Challenge
+Coding challenge for candidates working on web services. Basic premise is to write a REST API that talks to Twitter and presents some information from tweets, and a front end app that interacts with API. Should be able to run locally on a laptop for testing and evaluation.
+
+###Skills & Knowledge Being Assessed
+ +  Software development
+ +  Python web development
+ +  REST APIs
+ +  JavaScript
+ +  Written communication
+
+##Instructions
+Timeframe: ~ 7 day limit, can turn in early when done, can ask for extension
+
+This private GitHub repository (private repo) contains a skeleton Flask project which you will use to implement a basic REST API. The settings.py file in the project contains an Application Token and Secret for making authenticated requests against Twitter's API (see General expectations/notes below for 3rd party library usage).
+
+###Notes About the Code Provided
+The Flask application is already configured to read from the settings.py file.
+No models, views, or url configurations have been defined.
+
+##Deliverables
+###REST API
+Create a view that fulfills the following requirements:
+####Backend
+ + Accept a "twitter_account.id"
+ + Use the Application Token and Secret to authenticate with Twitter's API.
+ + Fetch the public timeline for the twitter_account.id from Twitter's API
+ + Extract the Screen Name, Text, Tweet ID, Date, and Profile Image from each object
+ + Transform the date into a Unix Timestamp
+ + Render the result as a JSON response
+
+####Front-End
+Using the API written in Flask, you’ll create a JavaScript webapp that makes a request for a Twitter user’s timeline and displays the tweets returned. You can use a JavaScript framework (AngularJS, Ember.js, etc.) if you want. The tweets should be rendered in a list view and each message/tweet should display the following items:
+ + Avatar image of author
+ + Screen name of author
+ + Tweet text
+ + Reply icon (see below for details)
+ + Relative timestamp (e.g. 5 minutes ago, 2 hours ago, 1 week ago)
+
+#####Reply Icon
+Each Tweet should contain a dummy reply action. When clicking on the Reply icon, the app should show a prompt that prints the Tweet text, Tweet ID, and the author’s user ID.
+
+#####Markup/Styles
+There are no strict requirements for how tweets are rendered.
+###General Expectations & Notes
+ + Fork the repo into your GitHub account and work against that
+ + When the project is completed issue a pull request back to the original repo
+ + The URLs and views should be laid out in a RESTful fashion
+ + Readable code (e.g., PEP 8)
+ + Error handling matters
+ + Clean markup and styles are important.
+ + Use best practices/conventions
+ + Feel free to use any 3rd party libraries (e.g. Python Twitter lib, Python OAuth lib, JavaScript time formatting lib, jQuery, etc)
+

README.md

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 ```
 $ git clone [email protected]:lukaszlacinski/challenge.git
 $ cd challenge
-$ export FLASK_APP=challenge
+$ export FLASK_APP=challenge.py
 $ flask run
  * Serving Flask app "challenge"
  * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

app.db

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 """
 
-from sqlite3 import dbapi2 as sqlite3
 from flask import Flask, g
 app = Flask(__name__)
 
 
 app.config.from_object('settings')
 
 
-def connect_db():
-    """Connects to the specific database."""
-    rv = sqlite3.connect(app.config['DATABASE'])
-    rv.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
-    return rv
-
-
-def get_db():
-    """Opens a new database connection if there is none yet for the
-    current application context.
-    """
-    if not hasattr(g, app.config['DATABASE']):
-        g.sqlite_db = connect_db()
-    return g.sqlite_db
-
-
-def init_db():
-    db = get_db()
-    with app.open_resource('schema.sql', mode='r') as f:
-        db.cursor().executescript(f.read())
-    db.commit()
-
-
-@app.cli.command('initdb')
-def initdb_command():
-    """Initializes the database"""
-    init_db()
-    print 'Initialized the database'
-
-
-@app.teardown_appcontext
-def close_db(error):
-    """Closes the database again at the end of the request."""
-    if hasattr(g, app.config['DATABASE']):
-        g.sqlite_db.close()
-
-
 @app.route('/')
 def challenge():
     return 'Globus Challenge'

challenge.py

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-DATABASE='app.db'
 TWITTER_API_KEY='EgIpXFxHbPmoXyvAc3PbGCcE9'
 TWITTER_API_SECRET='D0asdg77XAv0g9QT9C6RKR8W0D3UBxPpE0QNGhPy8RBeYcQHKr'