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Upload.ly Service

The upload.ly service provides all the REST APIs that integrate with Google Cloud Platform.

Pre-requisites

Following are the pre-requisites to build and run on a local Mac.

• Brew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

• Go 1.8 or higher

brew install go

• An IDE of choice (maybe GoGland)
• Set a suitable GOPATH. Ex: export GOPATH=$HOME/go
• Pull the code locally:

go get github.com/vjsamuel/uploadly

• Install govendor

go get -u github.com/kardianos/govendor

• Pull in all vendored dependencies:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/vjsamuel/uploadly
govendor sync

• Install memcache and start it up

brew install memcached
memcached &

• Now a token file needs to be obtained from Google Cloud APIs console. Goto the API console.
• Click on "Create credentials" and on the drop down "service account key".
• Select the service account and click on create. This will download a json file which can be saved in service/token.json

Running the application

• Export the following environment variables:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=token.json 
export BUCKET=<bucket name>
export PROJECT_ID=<project id>

• Start the application using:

go run main.go