Django Movies REST API

A simple implementation of Django and Django Rest Framework.

Example: django-movie-api.herokuapp.com

Available endpoints:

• /movies GET - List movies added to the database
  • allow ordering for id, title, released, runtime, writer and director fields
• /movies POST - Add movie to database, data from omdbapi.com, validation based on the movie title
  • required movie title in the request body
• /comments GET - List all comments added to movies in db
  • allow ordering for all fields
  • allow filtering based on a commented movie
• /comments POST - Add comment to movies in db, request body params:
  • movie and text are required
  • posting author is optional
  • add_date is default today
• /top GET - List most commented movies in the given date range, specifying date range is required, query params:
  • start-date=DD-MM-YYY
  • end-date=DD-MM-YYY

Requirements:

• latest verison of docker
• latest version of docker compose

Development

Uses default SQLite database and Django development server.

Run app by docker compose locally(on Linux):

1. Open terminal
2. Copy git repository
3. Go to the project directory:

   $ cd django_movies_api

4. Build images:

   $ docker-compose build

5. Run containers:

   $ docker-compose up -d

6. Create a database:

   $ docker-compose exec web python manage.py migrate --noinput

7. The server should be running on: localhost:8000

Production

Uses Heroku, PostgreSQL and gunicorn. For deployment use heroku.yml.