jcerjak / addressbook

Address Book storage library

The assignment is to implement a simple address book library in Python. Read here about requirements

Note: it stores all the data in memory, for future usage it should be extended with DB/File based storage. In real production case I would use Django Rest Framework and queries to the database to achieve this functionality.

See answer to design question below

Find person by email address (can supply any substring, ie. "comp" should work assuming "[email protected]" is an email address in the address book) - discuss how you would implement this without coding the solution.

I would use following check if 'comp' in "[email protected]" while looking for relevant objects using Python. In case of database storage email should be indexed column and I will use query LIKE '%'.

Basic Usage. API calls examples.

Requirements

• Python 2.7

Installation

mkdir testapp
cd testapp
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate

git clone [email protected]:yrik/addressbook.git
cd addressbook
python setup.py test
pip install .
cd ..
python
from addressbook import AddressBook

API call examples.

from addressbook import AddressBook

address_book = AddressBook()


# Add a person to the address book
john_dict = {
    'first_name': 'John',
    'last_name': 'Deer',
    'email_list': ['[email protected]'],
    'phone_list': ['999-999-9999'],
    'address_list': ['Anthony Benoit 490 E, Main Street Norwich, CT 06360, US'],
    'group_list': ['general'],
}

address_book.add_person(john_dict)

# Add a group to address book
address_book.add_group("friends")

# Find group members
address_book.find_persons(group='general')

# Find person using first_name only
address_book.find_persons(first_name='John')

# Find person using first_name and last_name
address_book.find_persons(first_name='John', last_name='Deer')

# Find person using email
address_book.find_persons(email='[email protected]')

# Find person using email prefix
address_book.find_persons(email='john')