Objective

Your assignment is to implement a URL shortening service using Python and no framework.

Brief

ShortLink is a URL shortening service where you enter a URL such as https://codesubmit.io/library/react and it returns a short URL such as http://short.est/GeAi9K.

Tasks

• Implement assignment using:
  • Language: Python
  • Framework: no framework
  • Two endpoints are required
    • /encode - Encodes a URL to a shortened URL
    • /decode - Decodes a shortened URL to its original URL.
  • Both endpoints should return JSON
• There is no restriction on how your encode/decode algorithm should work. You just need to make sure that a URL can be encoded to a short URL and the short URL can be decoded to the original URL. You do not need to persist short URLs to a database. Keep them in memory.
• Provide detailed instructions on how to run your assignment in a separate markdown file
• Provide API tests for both endpoints

Evaluation Criteria

• Python best practices
• API implemented featuring a /encode and /decode endpoint
• Show us your work through your commit history
• Completeness: did you complete the features? Are all the tests running?
• Correctness: does the functionality act in sensible, thought-out ways?
• Maintainability: is it written in a clean, maintainable way?

CodeSubmit

Please organize, design, test and document your code as if it were going into production - then push your changes to the master branch. After you have pushed your code, you may submit the assignment on the assignment page.

All the best and happy coding