foods

README

foods

simple website storing favorite foods

dependencies

• Dave Cheney's error package: https://godoc.org/github.com/pkg/errors
• BoldDB: https://github.com/boltdb/bolt

API

• GET /foods/<user name> returns a list of the user's favorite foods
• POST /foods/<user name/<food name> stores new food

The spec says: "Protect your API and differentiate your API's clients with some kind of client token scheme".

I have taken the liberty of introducing user name. Each client has a public name and an authentication token.

each request must include a (base64 encoded) authentication string consisting of the transaction details hashed with the client token.

So a partial URL would be /foods/<user name>?auth=<auth string>

client tokens

The client token serves as a shared secret between the client and server. The token itself is never transmitted.

client tokens for testing are stored in tokens.json in the form

{"Client":"client001","Token":"OlkqktzLs1MPlTHVv7L//ksdAlxbtS3Ui2XAeee8piQ="}

they are generated by the script make_tokens.sh

test

to test this application

• install_server.sh
• install_test_client.sh
• rm /tmp/foods.db (remove database from previous test)
• run_server.sh (this will block)
• run_testclient.sh
• examine the logs /tmp/foods.log, /tmp/tstclient.log