Web technologies/2014-2015/Laboratory 13
Web Service using REST API
[edit | edit source]Create a simple RESTful web services that accepts artifacts and stores them based on their id. The web service should have the following structure:
| Methods | Resource | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /store/api/v1.0/artifacts | returns a list of artifacts as well as their associated id |
| GET | /store/api/v1.0/artifacts/{id} | returns information about the file (date, location on disk) |
| POST | /store/api/v1.0/artifact/{id} | accepts as payload the artifact itself (uploads it to the service) |
| DELETE | /store/api/v1.0/artifact/{id} | delete artifact with the current id |
| GET | /store/api/v1.0/artifacts/{id}/fetch | returns the file itself |
Features:
[edit | edit source]- You can use whatever technology you deem necessary (Flask, NodeJS, Jersey, Java Servlets etc.)
- All responses should be in JSON format (except when the item is returned)
- HTTP Status codes should be appropriate to the given context
- Artefacts should be stored on the computer file systems and renamed to the id used in the resource
- If the directory is does not exist the service should create it
- BONUS: How would you modify the resource structure so that artifacts could be grouped or versioned?
- BONUS: Because you could never trust user input think on how you can verify if the file name is in a certain format (using predefined web platform methods is allowed).
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[edit | edit source]Gabriel Iuhasz, 2016-12-12, iuhasz.gabriel@e-uvt.ro