Shortener API

An API REST to shorten URLs

Features

• FastAPI - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
• SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper with SQLite3 implementation
• Pytest - The pytest framework makes it easy to write small, readable tests, and can scale to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries.

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Docker
• Docker Compose

Run locally

docker-compose up

OpenSwagger docs

• http://localhost:8000/docs

Run tests

docker-compose run --rm api pytest

Live Example

Swagger docs

https://shortener-challenge.herokuapp.com/docs

Shortener Approach

Field	Type	Description
id	Integer	Unique integer identifier.
url	String	URL/URI with maximum length of 2083 chars to respect the Microsoft browser spec.
code	String	4-digit code of random letters.
created_at	Datetime	Timestamp to track row creation.