Shopify Backend Developer Intern

The task is build an inventory tracking web application for a logistics company. The detailed task details can be found at Shopify Backend Developer Intern Challenge - Summer 2022

Task Discription:

The task includs a basic Inventory app with CRUD functionality, an additional functionality of (When deleting, allow deletion comments and undeletion) is been added as mentioned in the Challange.

Adding a field named DeleteStatus in dataset for managing the soft delete functionality. Also, we have keep two validation condition:

1. Deleted item can't be edited or retrived before undeleting it.
2. Items which are already soft deleted, can not be deleted again.

System Pre-requisits:

Ensure that you have Python3.7+ and Git installed in the system. Refer the following links incase the requirements are not installed.

1. Python 3.7+
2. Git

Install and configure the project.

Clone the repository using

git clone https://github.com/meetgandhi123/Shopify_Backend_Developer_Intern_Chalange.git

1. Linux

# Create python virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv

# Activate the python virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate

# Install the requirements for the project into the virtual environment
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Windows

# Create python virtual environment
conda create --name venv python=3.8

# Activate the python virtual environment
conda activate venv

# Install the requirements for the project into the virtual environment
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the server in development mode

Run the server

python manage.py runserver

Local API calls can be made at: http://127.0.0.1:8000/

API Documentation

Postman API documentation is been attached to the repo (Shopify.postman_collection.json), which can be used to test the API locally.

Testing

Few examples for testing APIs

• To test API endpoints

python manage.py test

Database migrations

The migrations file (0001_initial.py) consist of basic samples of record, you can delete the file present in migrations folder. On deleting the file we need to make migrations which can be done by following commands.

For creating migrations, run following commands:

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py db migrate