Flask Request logger

You're going to build your first REST API! Seriously, and you'll see how simple it is.

In this assignment you have to build a system that saves (logs) all the requests that it receives. It has two simple endpoints. One of them is /home. ANY valid request to /home should be stored in a database. And then we have /dashboard that basically creates a report of all the requests that /home has received. Suppose that we send the following requests:

• 1 GET request.
• 2 POST requests
• 0 PUT requests (we don't send any).
• 1 PATCH request
• 3 DELETE requests

We've, in total, sent 7 requests. Our dashboard should look something like:

Go to app.py and get started, you'll see the barebones for you to write your code

Testing your app

To run the tests in this app just run:

$ py.test tests.py

Aside from running the test commands, you can of course just navigate to http://localhost:8080/home and submit a few GET requests. If you want to send other types of requests we've included a command ping_api.py that lets you submit any type of request to a given URL. Usage:

$ python ping_api.py POST  # Submit a POST request to http://localhost:8080/home
$ python ping_api.py PUT  # Submit a PUT request to http://localhost:8080/home
$ python ping_api.py DELETE  # Submit a DELETE request to http://localhost:8080/home
$ python ping_api.py GET -u http://google.com/home # Submit a GET request to http://google.com/home

As you can see, you just have to pass the method and optionally the URL. By default, it's http://localhost:8080/home.

Database

The database for this project contains only one table (you can see the code in requests-schema.sql) that contains info about every request made (url and method). We'll use sqlite3 for this project. The database is already created in requests.db and committed to the git repo for your simplicity. But you can always regenerate it by executing the following command:

$ sqlite3 requests.db < requests-schema.sql