The webApp allows the user to search for a specific photo available in Flicker(https://www.flickr.com/) via a keyword search

• cross-platform programming language that allows creation of REST API without the need of any additional framework
• concurrency support is build into the language

• easy framework to build SPA web application. No need to learn new language to use like REACT
• no need of additional tooling for compilation

• Go 1.6 or later
• Golint (https://github.com/golang/lint). Make sure golint is added to PATH. This is optional
• Python 2.7 (used for building)

• download Go (https://golang.org/dl/)
• setup GOROOT environment variable (refers to the above link for further details for os specific instruction)
• add $GOROOT/bin to PATH environment variables
• clone this repo
  • git clone https://github.com/tabiul/flickersearch-app.git
• setup GOPATH environment variable (refers to location where the project is cloned, let say you cloned the project in the directory c:\flickersearch-app then this will be the value of the variable)

 python build.py

 python build.py --test

 python build.py --clean

navigate to folder bin/linux_amd64

./flickersearch -apiKey <apiKey> -port 8080 -webapp <path to webapp folder that is found in the root folder>

navigate to folder bin\windows_386

flickersearch.exe -apiKey <apiKey> -port 8080 -webapp <path to webapp folder that is found in the root folder>

The webapp assumes port 8080. Should you decide to change the port then you will need to update the js scripts accordingly

• Create an account to perform search. A default account admin with password admin is available (it is hardcoded, not a good idea but good for quick testing as the users are stored in memory)
• Enter the preferred search criteria and click on the search button. The last 10 searches are available as autocomplete
• A listing of 5 thumbnail photo will be shown. Click on any thumbnail to view a larger photo
• Click on << and >> to navigate to previous and next page
• Click logout to logout

Following REST API are available

search for images

/image?search=<search criteria>&page=<page number>&username=<username>

• username is optional. provide this if you want to keep track of history of specific user searches
• page is optional. provide this if you want specific page

retrieve user search history. system keep tracks of only last 10 searches

/history?username=<username>

if there are any history for the user then it will be returned else HTTP status No Content will be response

create new user

/user

POST keys

• username
• password

username and password is stored in a map for simplicity. In addition the password is stored in base64 encoding which is also terrible idea

• store username and password in proper db
• use bcrypt with salt for password storage

authenticate user

/authenticate

POST keys

• username
• password

• add server side authentication using token
• add db for persistence
• improve the ui (terrible at the moment)