Description

News-Cast is a simple flask application for adding/deleting/listing/getting news articles from a remote sqlite DB using sqlalchemy.

Deployment

Using Docker

Run docker run -d -p 8080:8080 adamlavie/news-cast:latest

Locally Using Python

• Create a virtualenv
• Run git clone https://github.com/adamlavie/News-Cast.git
• install the news-cast package by running pip install /path/to/news-cast
• Run python /path/to/news-cast/rest_service/resources.py

Usage:

GET all articles:

curl -X "GET" http://localhost:8080/articles

GET an article by it's title:

curl -X "GET" http://localhost:8080/article/<article_title>

PUT a new article:

curl -X "PUT" -d title='some_title' -d content='some content' http://localhost:8080/article/some_title

DELETE an existing article:

curl -X "DELETE" http://localhost:8080/article/<article_title>

POST an update to an existing article:

curl -X "POST" -d title='new_title' -d content='new content' http://localhost:8080/article/<article_title>

Tests

• Install the test-requirements by running pip install -r test-requirements.txt inside your virtualenv.
• Run nosetests tests/test_article_api.py