Overloop Django Tech Test Backend

Running with Docker

• A sample Dockerfile and a docker-compose is provided to run the application in an isolated environment
• Make sure you have docker and docker-compose installed and that the Docker daemon is running
• Build and run the container: docker-compose up
• Start making some requests: curl http://localhost:8000/articles/

Running with a virtual environment

• To run the application in a virtual Python environment, follow these instructions. This example will create a virtual Python environment for 3.9.6
• Check you have the pyenv version you need: pyenv versions
• You should see 3.9.6
• If you do not have the correct version of Python, install it like this: pyenv install 3.9.6
• On command line do this: ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/bin/python -m venv env
• This creates a folder called env. Then do this to activate the virtual environment: source env/bin/activate
• Lastly do this to check that you are now on the correct Python version: python --version
• You can install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
• You should run python setup_and_seed.py to get a local database setup and seeded with lookup data
• You can then run the app with python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 in the root directory

Project Structure Notes

• There are two django apps installed articles and regions
• Django is used as a RESTful API, no html rendering is required
• Marshmallow is used to serialize and deserialize django object instances

Tasks

• Add an new entity called Author with a first_name and a last_name. An API user should be able to create a new Author, edit an existing one and list all existing ones.
• Update the Article entity so that it relates to an Author. An API user should be able to select an Author and/or Region when creating or editing an Article.
• An API user should be able to perform the following actions for each Article, Author and Region entity:
  • Get all entities
  • Create a single entity
  • Get a single entity
  • Update a single entity
  • Delete a single entity
• The app should be robust and you should make sure that everything works as specified.
• Add unit tests for any code written to implement the tasks using a testing framework of your choice.