Go API Server

Author: Jesse Van Volkinburg

Setup

.env requirements

• PORT - Port Number for the API server to run on
• DATABASE_URL - PostgreSQL connection url

Running the app

• ./go-apiserver will start the server
• Endpoint: /categories
  • GET: Returns a JSON object with a list of categories
  • POST: Add a category to the database. Send a request body, encoded as application/json, of the form:

{
  name: "name",
  display_name: "display name",
  description: "description"
}

Return value will be the added category, with id, as a JSON object.

• Endpoint: /categories/:id
  • GET: Returns a JSON object with the category requested by the given id
  • DELETE: Deletes a category specified by the given id from the database, if it exists. Returns a JSON object with the deleted category in it.