Report Exporting Service

This Project is compatible with python3

Launch:

• Clone this repo.

• Create a virtual env

  • Install virtual env pip install virtualenv

  • cd ReportExportingService and virtualenv ReportExportingService

  • To begin using the virtual environment, it needs to be activated: source ReportExportingService/bin/activate

• Install the dependency (pip3 install -r requirements.txt)

• Once all are setup run python app.py

Test:

The project use unittest for the unit test

Usage: python test.py

Access.

Once the server is running you can access it trougth the url:

http://127.0.0.1:5000

This API accept the fallowing entries point:

• GET on /reports give a list of items.

• GET on /reports/{id} give a the detail of the reports.

This API accept different output:

json by default, xml and pdf.

To request a specific output named previously, two methode has been implemented:

Methode one:

Set the request headers 'Content-Type' to the format you want (application/json, text/xml or application/pdf)

To specify the content type with curl for ememple:

curl -H "Content-type: text/xml" -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5000/reports/2

Methode two:

Add the parameter format at the end of the request:

• /reports?format=pdf

• /reports/{id}?format=pdf

• /reports?format=xml

• /reports/{id}?format=xml

If you provide both, the methode one will be taken.