Containerised Monsternames!

• monsternames-api is now fully containerised! 🚢
• CircleCI pushes to ECR in my AWS 📌
• ECR images tagged with SHA1 hash of commit for identification 🆔
• db vars now read in from env rather than /etc/config.json 📖
• Behave! behaviour tests added 🧪
• Logging changed to be using actual log handlers and not print statements ✋
• Projects that use this page was not communicate in previous release, so hey that's here 🙉
• Removed need for API key in GET requests... shouldn't have been there anyway that was a 🐛

What's Changed

• Added projects that use this page by @sudoblark in #11
• Containerisation and Behave! tests by @sudoblark in #13

Full Changelog: v1.1.4...v2.0.0

addNames page and api error messaging

• Added addNames page 👍
• Page allows posting of data to API for users whom are not familiar with programming 👤
• Also involves slight changes to api error messages so they make more sense in the frontend 🛑

SSL

• Used certbot to get an actually trusted SSL cert for monsternames-api.com 😮
• Amended static webpages so GET! for API works ⚙️
• Updated readme with helpful info about how to replicate this 🦄

Endpoint Consolidation

Its been a while since I've worked on this...

But I had a burst of energy last night that let to quite a significant patch. I completely redone the backend of the flask applicaiton to make it adher to OOP principles 🦄 . So now:

• There's no longer an individual .py file for each type of monster 😮
• Instead there's just one class that's been defined: monster_endpoints. 🔚
• This class takes: 🥡
  • two peewee.Model or None instances - one for first name and one for last name
  • Two booleans indicating if first and last names are present for the endpoint 🆗
  • The name of the monster we are creating an endpoint for 📛
• The class exposes three public methods, each of which behave differently depending on data provided to the constructor:
  • insert_first_name 🌓
  • insert_last_name 🌗
  • return_full_name 🌕
• Logic to verify users' API keys is now a private method of this endpoint 🔒

This doesn't impact users in any way, but makes my job a heck of a lot easier if i want to extend this in the future with more functionality and/or endpoints.

To update to this version:

git pull
git clean -fx
supervisorctl reload

Small web changes

• Changed home page to allow generation of names from all endpoints... the idea being to allow interaction with the api even if you're not a programmer
• Added license file to git repo
• Added CORS headers to goatmen endpoint as this was accidentally left out
• Fixed typos on the website

Website live

• Purchased custom domain for api 🕸️
• Created website for domain, with a home, contribute and endpoints page 👍
• Removed info from readme that is now present on website
• Added (hopefully) helpful content to the website 🎧
• Added CORS headers to api requests so it works in browsers 🦄
• Added license to repo

First version live with 16 endpoints

Base URL: http://ec2-3-9-54-103.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

• Version 1 is live!
• 16 juicy endpoints:

endpoint	method	theme
/api/v1.0/goatmen	GET
/api/v1.0/goatmen/firstName	POST	Cute pet names
/api/v1.0/goblin	GET
/api/v1.0/goblin/firstName	POST	Typical bloke names
/api/v1.0/goblin/lastName	POST	Typical bloke names
/api/v1.0/ogre	GET
/api/v1.0/ogre/firstName	POST	Dumb sounding cavemen
/api/v1.0/orc	GET
/api/v1.0/orc/firstName	POST	Random nouns
/api/v1.0/orc/lastName	POST	Negative adjectives
/api/v1.0/skeleton	GET
/api/v1.0/skeleton/firstName	POST	Classy
/api/v1.0/skeleton/lastName	POST	Classy
/api/v1.0/troll	GET
/api/v1.0/troll/firstName	POST	vaguely Scandinavian
/api/v1.0/troll/lastName	POST	vaguely Scandinavian

My good friend Robert Levett-Millett helped massively with thinking of naming schemas and values. Sadly he doesn't have a Github so the only contact link I'll give out will be LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-levett-millett/

Between us we've managed to kick the database off with:

• 16 goatmen first names
• 15 goblin first names
• 6 goblin last names
• 10 ogre first names
• 12 orc first names
• 14 orc last names
• 9 skeleton first names
• 6 skeleton last names
• 10 troll first names
• 6 troll last names

Someone far better than me at Maths can probably tell you how many unique entries that is per GET endpoint 🍰

Happy random naming!