link-shortener-svc

Description

This service provides URL shortening functionality. It allows users to create short links from long URLs, redirect users to original URLs when they use shortened links.

Install

git clone github.com/Dmytro-Hladkykh/link-shortener-svc
cd link-shortener-svc
go build main.go
export KV_VIPER_FILE=./config.yaml
./main migrate up
./main run service

Running from Docker

Make sure that docker installed.

Configure docker-compose.yml with entrypoint commands:

entrypoint:
      [
        "/bin/sh",
        "-c",
        "/usr/local/bin/link-shortener-svc migrate up && /usr/local/bin/link-shortener-svc run service",
      ]

Possible commands are:

/usr/local/bin/link-shortener-svc migrate up

/usr/local/bin/link-shortener-svc run service

/usr/local/bin/link-shortener-svc migrate down

To run the service with Docker use:

docker-compose up --build

Testing

To test usage you can use Postman.

Create a POST with:

http://localhost:8000/link-shortener

With Body:

{
  "original_url": "http://example.com"
}

In response you will get:

{
  "short_code": "YrEiin"
}

Create a GET with:

http://localhost:8000/link-shortener/YrEiin

In response you will get:

{
  "original_url": "http://example.com"
}

Running from Source

• Set up environment value with config file path KV_VIPER_FILE=./config.yaml
• Provide valid config file
• Launch the service with migrate up command to create database schema
• Launch the service with run service command

Database

For services, we do use PostgresSQL database. You can install it locally or use docker image.

Third-party services

Contact

Responsible Dmytro Hladkykh The primary contact for this project is https://t.me/Dimo4kaaaaaa