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StackOverflowLite#

StackOverflowLite is a platform where people can ask questions and provide answers.

Project Overview

StackOverflow-lite is a platform where people can ask questions and provide answers.

Required Features

- Users can create an account and log in.
- Users can post questions.
- Users can delete the questions they post
- Users can post answers
- Users can view the answers
- Users can accept an answer out of all the answers to his/her queston as they preferred answer
- Users can upvote or downvote an answer.
- Users can comment on an answer.
- Users can fetch all questions he/she has ever asked on the platform
- Users can search for questions on the platform
- Users can view questions with the most answers.

Installation

  
    $ git clone https://github.com/Ogwang/StackOverflowLite.git
    $ cd stackoverflow-lite
    $ virtualenv venv
    $ . venv/bin/activate
    $ pip install -r requirements.txt   

Running the application

    $ export DATABASE_URL="Your DATABASE_URL"

or open .env file and copy your postgres database url

    #.env file
    DATABASE_URL=postgres://username:password@hostname/databasename
    
    $ python manage.py runserver

Testing

    $ pytest --cov=app

Endpoints

Users Endpoints

Method Endpoint Functionality
POST /api/v1/auth/signup Add a user
GET /api/v1/auth/users Lists all users
GET /api/v1/auth/users/{user_id} Retrieve a user
POST /api/v1/auth/login Login a user

Questions Endpoints

Method Endpoint Functionality
POST /api/v1/questions Add a question
GET /api/v1/questions Lists all questions
GET /api/v1/questions/?q={search_string} Search a questions
GET /api/v1/questions/{question_id} Retrieve a question
PUT /api/v1/questions/{question_id} Edit a question of a logged in user
DELETE /api/v1/questions/{question_id} Delete a request of a logged in user

Answers Endpoints

Method Endpoint Functionality
POST /api/v1/questions/{question_id}/answers Add an answer
GET /api/v1/questions/answers Lists all answers
GET /api/v1/questions/answers/{answerID} Retrieve an answer
PUT /api/v1/questions/{question_id}/answer/{answerID} Edit an answer
DELETE /api/v1/questions/{question_id}/answer/{answerID} Delete an answer
POST /api/v1/questions/answers/vote/{answer_id} Upvote/DownVote an answer
POST /api/v1/questions/answers/comment/{answer_id} Comment on an answer

Author

Denis Ogwang.

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