zopsmart-assignment

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ZopSmart Assignment - A School Student Database

This repository contains the assignment submission for the ZopSmart hiring drive in JUIT, Solan. It contians the implementation of a simple CRUD API, using the GoFR library.

Requriements

• Must have GoLang Compiler/ToolChain installed

How was the project made?

• Created a github repository and cloned it to local system.
• Initialized the "Go Module" using go mod init github.com/moulikchaturvedi/zopsmart-assignment. This simplifies the remote downloading of packages.
• Created the file main.go, with basic configuration (including GoFR).
• For necessary libraries, go mod tidy.
• docker run --name gofr-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -p 2001:3306 -d mysql/mysql-server to start the mysql docker server.
• Create a database and table on the docker server. myysql -u root -p password CREATE DATABASE Students; and CREATE TABLE students (id int auto_increment, name varchar(255), class varchar(255), PRIMARY KEY (id));. Created Dummy Data, INSERT INTO students (name, class) VALUES ("moulik","fourth");.
• Learned about Handlers and how they work in Go and GoFR.
• Explored GoFR documentations, which helped a lot in making of this project.
• CRUD operations were added.
• Unit Testing file is under development.
• Postman Collection has been attached in the respective directory.

To run

• To run can use the command go run main.go.
• We can also the command go build which will compile the code in an executable program. Then we can run the executable file.