Library Manager REST API

Description

A REST API to manage books and authors data. It was based on this challenge by Olist company.

Live preview

This project was deployed on Heroku and is available here.

Prerequisites

Before you start, install Git and Poetry. Optionally, if you want to dockerize this application, install Docker and Docker Compose.

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository

git clone git@github.com:diogo-alves/library-manager.git

2. Go to project directory

cd library-manager

Executing the project

Running locally:

1. Install the requirements

poetry install

2. Activate virtualenv

poetry shell

3. Update the database structure

python manage.py migrate

4. Start the web server

python manage.py runserver

Running with docker:

1. Start web server and database services

docker-compose up -d

2. Update the database structure

docker-compose exec web python manage.py migrate

With the web server running access the API at http://localhost:8000/api/

Testing

Running locally:

pytest

Running with docker:

docker-compose exec web pytest

API endpoints

This project implements the OpenAPI Specification (formerly Swagger Specification). The full documentation can be accessed at http://localhost:8000/api/.

Authors

Action	HTTP VERB	Endpoint
List authors	GET	api/authors/
Search author by name	GET	api/authors/?search={name}
Paginate authors list	GET	api/authors/?page={number}

Books

Action	HTTP VERB	Endpoint
List books	GET	api/books/
Filter books by name	GET	api/books/?name__icontains={name}
Filter books by publication year	GET	api/books/?publication_year={year}
Filter books by editon	GET	api/books/?edition={edition}
Filter books by author name	GET	api/books/?authors__name__icontains={name}
Create a book	POST	api/books/
Retrieve book	GET	api/books/{id}/
Update/Replace book	PUT	api/books/{id}/
Update/Modify book	PATCH	api/books/{id}/
Delete book	DELETE	api/books/{id}/

Importing authors

A django management command was created to import a CSV file with authors names. The file must follow the format:

name
Luciano Ramalho
Osvaldo Santana Neto
David Beazley
Chetan Giridhar
Brian K. Jones
J.K Rowling

To import run:

python manage.py import_authors authors.csv
# or
docker-compose exec web python manage.py import_authors authors.csv

Built With

• Django
• Django Rest Framework
• drf-spectacular
• Django Filter
• PostgreSQL
• Pytest
• Python
• Python Decouple

Environment

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Git
• Poetry

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.