Django API : Social Media API
- Build APIs for a social media platform in either NodeJS or Python
- The API should support features like getting a user profile, follow a user, upload a post, delete a post, like a post, unlike a liked post, and comment on a post
- Design the database schema and implement in PostgreSQL or MongoDB
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POST /api/authenticate should perform user authentication and return a JWT token.
- INPUT: Email, Password
- RETURN: JWT token
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POST /api/follow/{id} authenticated user would follow user with {id}
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POST /api/unfollow/{id} authenticated user would unfollow a user with {id}
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GET /api/user should authenticate the request and return the respective user profile.
- RETURN: User Name, number of followers & followings.
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POST api/posts/ would add a new post created by the authenticated user.
- Input: Title, Description
- RETURN: Post-ID, Title, Description, Created Time(UTC).
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DELETE api/posts/{id} would delete post with {id} created by the authenticated user.
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POST /api/like/{id} would like the post with {id} by the authenticated user.
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POST /api/unlike/{id} would unlike the post with {id} by the authenticated user.
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POST /api/comment/{id} add comment for post with {id} by the authenticated user.
- Input: Comment
- Return: Comment-ID
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GET api/posts/{id} would return a single post with {id} populated with its number of likes and comments
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GET /api/all_posts would return all posts created by authenticated user sorted by post time.
- RETURN: For each post return the following values
- id: ID of the post
- title: Title of the post
- desc: Description of the post
- created_at: Date and time when the post was created
- comments: Array of comments, for the particular post
- likes: Number of likes for the particular post
- RETURN: For each post return the following values