zipapi

A small coding challenge project.

zipapi is an HTTP(S) API that takes files uploaded to POST /archive as multipart/form-data into a zip archive and returns it as a response.

Roadmap

• Required:
  • Upload of multiple files and creating a zip file out of them
  • Provide the zip file back to the API user
  • Serve multiple requesting clients at the same time
  • Limit the size of each uploaded file
• Nice to have:
  • Provide automated API tests
  • CI
  • Retain a history of all created Zip files and their contents *
  • Expire created Zip files after a specific period of time **

* There's currently no database-backed persistency implementation but just a simple in-memory mock. Implementing one shouldn't be a problem though.

** This service shouldn't be responsible for this problem. There must be a separate service that periodically goes over the database and cleans up expired files.

Getting started

• Download the latest release from releases
• Compile /cmd/zipapi using go build
• Define a configuration using /cmd/zipapi/config.toml as a template
• Run the server using ./zipapi -config /path/to/config.toml providing the path to your configuration file.