GoColumbus

A RESTFul API using GoLang for Online Food Ordering System The project aims at Migrating https://github.com/navi25/RestaurantAPI from Python Based Framework to Go Based Framework

Development Goals

• No change in terms of functionality from end user's perspective
• Use of Buffalo framework for the development.
• Using Redis for caching layer to improve performance of the REST API

Installation

Before we begin, kindly install following on your system:-

• Go

How to Run the App?

• mkdir $GOPATH/github.com/yourUserName/
• cd $GOPATH/github.com/yourUserName/
• git clone https://github.com/navi25/GoColumbus
• cd GoColumbus
• go build
• ./GoColumbus

Everything should be ready. In your browser open http://127.0.0.1:4646/

REST Endpoints

There is currently only one major object in the app:-

• Restaurants
• Menu (To be added soon)
• Food Items (Menu Items) (To be added soon)

The endpoints and the corresponding REST operations are defined as follows:-

• RESTAURANTS
  • http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/v1.0/restaurants/
    • GET : This method on above URL returns all the restaurants available in the database in json format
    • POST : This method posts a new restaurant and accept application/JSON format for the operation with "name" as the only and the required parameter for the JSON.
    • Delete : This method deletes the given restaurant if the restaurant_id exists.