Zoo

A basic CRUD demo featuring an API for animals at a zoo. SQLite DB, Django 2.1.3.

About this code

I've tested the endpoints with Django test cases as best as I can think to do. In the zoo/zoo/ path, ./manage.py runserver seems to work fine, and I registered the models with the admin site. There isn't yet any initial data except for that used in the tests. There are 10 tests, which can be run with a simple ./manage.py test. Of course, tracking the SQLite DB file in Git was a mistake! Luckily this isn't anything sensitive.

Note: There was no index page specified in the document, so the following URL paths are all accessible from the animals/ app root:

• animals/population/: Count of animals in the zoo.
• GET animals/animal/Tetley/: Retrieve data for the example animal named Tetley.
• POST animals/animal/: Attempt to create a new animal.
• animals/hungry/: Responds with a plain count of the number of animals who haven't eaten in the past 2 days (last_feed_time).
• animals/feed/: On POST, attempts to 'feed' the animal with a given name in the request data.

What I'd rather have done

Django Rest Framework with URL routing and ViewSets is something I'm quite fond of these days, for pure API work.

Django version

I avoided a CVE alert on Github by bumping the Django version to 2.1.3, which didn't seem to have any noticeable effect on the nature of the assessment as far as I can tell.

Thanks, Marc.