politico_back-end

Politico enables citizens give their mandate to politicians running for different government offices while building trust in the process through transparency.

Usage

• Home page
• Create an account
• Login into your account
• Post a question
• Fetch all questions
• Fetch a single question
• Edit a specific question
• Delete a specific question
• Post an answer to a question

Prerequisities

• Python 3.6 version

Installation

Downlaod / clone the project to your local computer by:

• Download the zip file of this repository.
• Unzip it and navigate into the Politico_back_end directory.

Virtual environment

Create a virtual environment

$ virtualenv venv

Activate the environment

$ venv/bin/activate

Dependencies

Install package requirements to your environment

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Env

Create a.env file in your Politico_back_end root directory and add:

• $ venv/bin/activate

• $ export FLASK_APP="run.py"

• $ export SECRET="any-character-or-STRING-YOU-PREFER"

• $ export APP_SETTINGS="development"

Testing

To set up testing environment

• $ pip install pytest

• $ pip install coverage

Testing API endpoints

Test	Endpoints	HTTP VERBS
Create a political party	/api/v1/party	POST
Get all political parties	/api/v1/party	GET
Get a specific political party	/api/v1/	GET
Edit a specific political party	/api/v1//party	PUT
Delete a particular party	/api/v1/party	DELETE
Create a political office	/api/v1/office	POST
Get all political offices	/api/v1/office	GET
Get a specific political office	/api/v1/office	GET

Resources

The API is hosted on Heroku

Authors

Dennis rotich Belio

Acknowledgement

Andela Bootcamp - cohort 37