super-assignment

This application connects to a fictional social media network. One endpoint registers a token and the other endpoint fetches posts made by fictional users across a 6 month period.

Dependencies

You should be running PHP 8.0+, the latest version of composer and available to use command line on your machine for any commands listed below. How you run PHP is up to you!

• guzzlehttp/guzzle - to make API calls
• symfony/cache - not to disturb the API much
• vlucas/phpdotenv - to keep some config data out of files

Local setup

1. Setup .env file: Copy /.env.example to /.env. Add required settings there. Finding out the required settings is part of the assignment.

2. Run docker-compose: To build the container to run the assignment in, run command docker-compose up --build. This will create container php_assignment in Docker project supermetrics.

The container will be listening on port 7777 on your localhost.

Note: Locally changed files will not be updated to the Docker container automatically as mirroring is not enabled. This means you will need to run docker-compose again to update the files inside the container.

Run application

Application can be reached from the localhost: http://localhost:7777 - shows the main page.

Testing

Run tests:

1. Connect to container: Connect to container by running command docker exec -it php_assignment /bin/bash.

2. Change path: Previous command should take you to path /app, but make sure of that by running command cd /app.

3. Run tests: Run the tests with command ./vendor/bin/phpunit.

Notes about the API endpoints

This application is using two custom API endpoints

POST: https://api.supermetrics.com/assignment/register

This endpoint registers a token for use against the second endpoint

PARAMS:

client_id: ju16a6m81mhid5ue1z3v2g0uh
email: your@email.address
name: Your Name

RETURNS:

sl_token: This token string should be used in the subsequent query. Please note that this token will only last 1 hour from when the REGISTER call happens. You will need to register and fetch a new token as you need it.
client_id: returned for informational purposes only
email: returned for informational purposes only

GET: https://api.supermetrics.com/assignment/posts

This endpoint fetches posts along a number of pages using the registered token.

PARAMS:

sl_token: Token from the register call
page: integer page number of posts (1-10)

RETURNS:

page: What page was requested or retrieved
posts: 100 posts per page