helm_bookstore_api

This is a user-friendly API using Django Rest Framework (DRF) for a bookstore management system. The main idea is to offer a bunch of useful functions for handling book information effortlessly. Users can do everything from adding, viewing, and updating, to removing book details. Plus, it also offers a neat feature where users can neatly organize their booklists by creating categories.

The API is well documented for each endpoint here

API Endpoints Available

Http Verb	ApiEndpoint	Usage
POST	/api/books/	Add a new book
GET	/api/books/	Get all available books
GET	/api/books/:id/	Get a book and see details
PUT	/api/books/:id/	Update a book
DELETE	/api/books/:id/	Delete a book
GET	/api/categories/	Get all available categories
GET	/api/categoriess/:id/	Get a category

setup:

This application is containerized with Docker and has two services setup and configured to run on the same network for extra security.

Follow the following setup instructions to run this on your local environment:

Requirements:

• Docker/Docker Desktop
  
• Python 3.12.0
  
• Django 4.2.6
  
• Django Rest Framework 3.14.0
  
• Postgresql 13.12
• Pip
  

Setup Steps:

1. Clone the project on your machine:
   git clone https://github.com/ClaytonSiby/helm_bookstore_api.git

2. Change directory to this project's root:
   cd helm_bookstore_api

3. To run the application on your local:

• Run pip install virtualenv to install virtualenv an essential tool for creating a virtual environment for the project.
• Run virtualenv .venv to create the virtual environment (the name can be anything)
• Run source ./.venv/bin/activate to activate the environment (this ensures that all dependencies installed are only changed on your current environment, e.t.c)
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all dependencies essential for this project
  
• make sure the helm_bookstore/settings.py db configuration looks like this (the localhost is your db host) e.g:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'bookstore_db',
        'USER': 'helm_admin',
        'PASSWORD': 'password',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}

• Run chmod +x ./build.sh && ./build.sh to makemigrations, migrate, and start a gunicorn server on http://0.0.0.0:8000
  
• Run python manage.py test to run all available tests for the project

3. To run in a container:

• Setup docker stack: > this will setup two services (api, db, and nginx) on the same network (i.e helm_network):
  
• docker-compose build --no-cache > install dependencies as descriped in the Dockerfile
  
• make sure the helm_bookstore/settings.py db configuration looks like this (the db is your host):

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'bookstore_db',
        'USER': 'helm_admin',
        'PASSWORD': 'password',
        'HOST': 'db',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}

• docker-compose up > which does the following:
• creates a helm_bookstore_project docker stack and establishes the helm_network
• creates a helm_bookstore_api container (the djangon/rest framework project)
• creates a helm_bookstore_db container (postgresql database container)
• creates a nginx container
• runs ./build.sh to makemigrations, migrate, and bind a gunicorn server on http://0.0.0.0:8000
  

Usage:

• Access available resources on the API via the above endpoints (provided in the table)
• NB - if you get a 404 No Content View, make sure you are using the right endpoint and try again!