iReporter | The API Endpoints

iReporter is a simple web application that enables any/every citizen to bring any form of corruption to the notice of appropriate authorities and the general public.

In this case, users can also report on things that needs government intervention.

The Challenges

1. Challenge 1 Work Procedure
2. Challenge 2 Work Process Guidelines

How the API works

This project works on the URLs below for the operations of the HTTP resources

REQUEST	ROUTE	FUNCTIONALITY
GET	/api/v1/users	Returns all saved records of users
POST	/api/v1/users	Creates a new user record
GET	/api/v1/users/<user_id>	Returns a specific user
PUT	/api/v1/users/<user_id>	Updates a specific user record
GET	/api/v1/users/<user_id>/edit	Returns a specific user for editing
DELETE	/api/v1/users/<user_id>	Deletes a specific user record

REQUEST	ROUTE	FUNCTIONALITY
GET	/api/v1/red-flags	_Returns all saved records of red-flags
POST	/api/v1/red-flags	Creates a new red-flag record
GET	/api/v1/red-flags/<flag_id>	Returns a specific red-flag
PUT	/api/v1/red-flags/<flag_id>	Updates a specific red-flag record
GET	/api/v1/red-flags/<flag_id>/edit	Returns a specific red-flag for editing
DELETE	/api/v1/red-flags/<flag_id>	Deletes a specific red-flag record

REQUEST	ROUTE	FUNCTIONALITY
GET	/api/v1/interventions	Returns all saved records of interventions
POST	/api/v1/interventions	Creates a new intervention record
GET	/api/v1/interventions/<int_id>	Returns a specific intervention
PUT	/api/v1/interventions/<int_id>	Updates a specific intervention record
GET	/api/v1/interventions/<int_id>/edit	Returns a specific intervention for editing
DELETE	/api/v1/interventions/<int_id>	Deletes a specific intervention record

Heroku: This app is hosted at iReporter API web!

GitHub Pages: Find the user interface via iReporter UI web!

SETTING UP THE APPLICATION ON YOUR DESKTOP

1. Get an empty folders where to place the project

   Either download the project and extract it in the new empty folder or copy the link to clone it as git clone https://github.com/BrunoNicholas/iReporter.git

2.Hopefully you installed python, create a virtual environment

e.g. venv and activate it with the operating system you have.

i.e. #source venv/bin/activate for linux, or #venv/Scripts/activate.bat for windows

3.Install all required packages while inside the folder as below

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4.Start the application as.

python run.py

5.User the routes above for checking the API and the UI for navigating through the user interface
Thanks!

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Developed By

Bruno Nicholas Sserunkuma, sbnibro256@gmail.com