zilard / flight

Problem statement

Story

There are over 100,000 flights a day, with millions of people and cargo being transferred around the world. With so many people and different carrier/agency groups, it can be hard to track where a person might be. In order to determine the flight path of a person, we must sort through all of their flight records.

Goal

To create a simple microservice API that can help us understand and track how a particular person's flight path may be queried. The API should accept a request that includes a list of flights, which are defined by a source and destination airport code. These flights may not be listed in order and will need to be sorted to find the total flight paths starting and ending airports.

Required Structure

[["SFO", "EWR"]] => ["SFO", "EWR"]

[["ATL", "EWR"], ["SFO", "ATL"]] => ["SFO", "EWR"]

[["IND", "EWR"], ["SFO", "ATL"], ["GSO", "IND"], ["ATL", "GSO"]] => ["SFO", "EWR"]

Format of API Endpoint

Request

POST /track <LIST OF FLIGHTS>

curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
http://localhost:8080/track \
-d '[["IND", "EWR"], ["SFO", "ATL"], ["GSO", "IND"], ["ATL", "GSO"]]'

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 11:42:19 GMT
Content-Length: 14
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

["SFO","EWR"]

Lifecycle

Build

make image

Run

make run

Stop

make stop

Cleanup

make clean