Purpose

Understand Flask

Request

Service with a REST Endpoint to search for movies using genre as query parameter, as:

GET /movies?genre=Animation&offset=0&limit=10

genre: Genres are provided as a static resource in the genres.json file.

offset: Starting index for the search results. Default is 0, if not specified.

limit: Number of results returned per page. Default is 10 if not specified.

It it will query a service that runs in localhost:3040

Response:

{
    "data": {
        "movies": [
            { "id": "1111" }, ...
        ]
    },
    "metadata": {
        "offset": 0,
        "limit": 10,
        "total": 20
    }
}

How to run it

Python version used 3.7.2

1. Run movie services in localhost:3040
2. Recommended create a virtual environment, eg: python3 -m venv ~/venv
3. Activate virtual env, eg: source ~/venv/bin/activate
4. Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Run app python main.py, app opened in http://localhost:5000
6. Run tests python test_movies.py

load testing

1. Activated virtual env
2. App running
3. locust --host=http://localhost:5000 -f test_performance.py
4. Open browser http://localhost:8089