olebaad / wolftechapi

WolftechAPI

This is a RESTful API built using ASP .NET Core.

Functionality

Upon a requst it is performing the following task:

1. Read file from disk
   The API is impemented expecting a .csv file-format. The file contains comma separated values with information about a company's departments and child departments in the following format:

OID,Title,Color,DepartmentParent_OID
1,US News,#F52612,
2,Crime + Justice,#F52612,1
3,Energy + Environment,#F52612,1
4,Extreme Weather,#F52612,1
5,Space + Science,#F52612,1
6,International News,#EB5F25,
7,Africa,#EB5F25,6
8,Americas,#EB5F25,6
9,Asia,#EB5F25,6
10,Europe,#EB5F25,6

2. Parse data
   The response data from the API is a JSON containing the department hierarchy structure.The response supports any depth in the hierarchy. For each node it also gives a count of the descendants. This number includes not only the number of children, but the number of children, the childrens children and so on.
   Format should be like the following for the preceding dataset:

[
  {
  "Oid": 1,
  "Title": "US News",
  "NumDecendants": 4,
  "Color": "#F52612",
  "Departments": [
      {
        "Oid": 2,
        "Title": "Crime + Justice",
        "NumDecendants": 0,
        "Color": "#F52612",
        "Departments": []
      },
      {
        "Oid": 3,
        "Title": "Energy + Environment",
        "NumDecendants": 0,
        "Color": "#F52612",
        "Departments": []
      },
      {
        "Oid": 4,
        "Title": "Extreme Weather",
        "NumDecendants": 0,
        "Color": "#F52612",
        "Departments": []
      },
      {
        "Oid": 5,
        "Title": "Space + Science",
        "NumDecendants": 0,
        "Color": "#F52612",
        "Departments": []
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "Oid": 6,
    "Title": "International News",
    "NumDecendants": 4,
    "Color": "#EB5F25",
    "Departments": [
      {
        "Oid": 7,
        "Title": "Africa",
        "NumDecendants": 0,
        "Color": "#EB5F25",
        "Departments": []
      },
      {
        "Oid": 8,
        "Title": "Americas",
        "NumDecendants": 0,
        "Color": "#EB5F25",
        "Departments": []
      },
      {
        "Oid": 9,
        "Title": "Asia",
        "NumDecendants": 0,
        "Color": "#EB5F25",
        "Departments": []
      },
      {
        "Oid": 10,
        "Title": "Europe",
        "NumDecendants": 0,
        "Color": "#EB5F25",
        "Departments": []
      }
    ]
  }
]

3. Response
   The response data is a JSON in the preceding format. If the data loading or parsing fails a BadRequest response is given with an error message.

Test

The project also includes unit testing. These are implemented using the xUnit tool and Microsoft VisualStudio's test tools for unit testing.