NFL DRAFT README

Inspiration

This was inspired by Key & Peele's "East/West Bowl" comedy sketch(es), though this is the NFL draft (with one round) following the bowl. The players used are from season 2 video. Season 1 video can be found here

(disclaimer: the positions and year/class are made up by me (i.e., not explicity stated in the videos))

This is just a small thing I did as an excuse to mess around with Go for the first time

Routes:

• /index
• /players/
• /test
• /files/ (use this route to see contents of the /files directory, or go to /files/<file_name><file_extension>)

start:

go run *.go or go build followed by ./nfl_draft

Fetch a player:

curl --request GET --url <base_url>/players/:id

ex: curl --request GET --url http://localhost:8080/players/3

Fetch all players:

curl --request GET --url <base_url>/players/

ex: curl --request GET --url http://localhost:8080/players/

Draft a player:

url: base url id: id of the desired player

curl --request POST --url <base_url>/players/id

ex: curl --request POST --url http://localhost:8080/players/3

TODO

• "appropriately" handle errors
• WRITE TESTS
• make an event table that records what team drafted which player (and when)
• allow user to add more players to be drafted (from other seasons)
• write more idiomatic Go
• swagger docs (or similar) for easy visibility of available routes
• DONE - reset button to "undraft" all players and start over

postgres:

• sudo -u postgres psql
• CREATE DATABASE players_dev;
• \c players_dev
• CREATE TABLE players;
• insert the sample data (found in players.setup.sql)

Resources:

• "Go in Practice" by Matt Butcher and Matt Farina
• Go docs
• Simple JSON Rest API in Go (tutorial)
• Medium article "Build RESTful API in Go and MongoDB" by Mohamed Labouardy
• ENABLING CORS ON A GO WEB SERVER, an article by Flavio Copes
• How to not use an http-router in go, an article by Axel Wagner

Cool packages I used/learned about:

• goenv