Description:

Rest API for shortening urls

Self-hosting instructions:

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dependencies

   go mod download

3. Run the server

   make run

4. Run the tests

make tests

Save alias

• POST /

    {
      "url": "https://www.google.com",
      "alias": "google"
    }

Delete alias

• DELETE /:alias

Go to the shortcut link

• GET /:alias

Features:

• Redirect to the original url by the short url
• If alias is not provided, generate a random alias
• Creating, deleting urls are protected by auth
  • basic http auth
• To store data use sqlite database
• Api tries to decode json body, if it fails, returns failed to parse request message
• Validates incoming requests
• Logs all requests in text format in dev environment, and in json format in prod environment
• Saving existing url, returns the same name message
• Fails if alias is invalid
• Fails if URL for given alias not found
• Redirect only if successfully got URL

Tests shows that api works correctly