The API for degree sheep is comrpised of a generic HTTP request handling system, and a series of servlets that handle a group of tasks. These servlets are loaded into a map at runtime, and when a request comes in a servlet that matches it is looked for. If one is found, reflection is used to see if it has the method requested. If the method exists and is exported, it is called. The result of the API call is then optionally cached (if the method name, internally, is prefixed with Cacheable) and returned. Database interaction occurs in Schema.go, which contains methods for fully retrieving each datatype.

It is recommended that for a production system this code is deployed through git hooks, an example of which can be found in the dockerfile that builds this system.

Use either make or go get . && go build to fetch dependencies and build the api binary.

When deployed, the binary must have a server.gcfg file in the same directory, from which it will read the SQL, SMTP, Memcached and other settings.