README

Creating a virtual environment (optional)

With this you can keep different configuration environments for differents projects.

> pip install virtualenv
> cd mediapro
> virtualenv mediapro --no-site-packages
> source mediapro/bin/activate

> deactivate    # for when your are done with the project

Installing packages

> pip install -r requirements.txt

Database

Install mongoDB and start it on default port.

More info: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/

> sudo mongod       # start the db

Check that the db is running by:

> mongo

You should see something like:

MongoDB shell version: 3.2.5
connecting to: test
Server has startup warnings: 
2016-07-19T02:55:18.604+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] 
2016-07-19T02:55:18.604+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: Insecure configuration, access control is not enabled and no --bind_ip has been specified.
2016-07-19T02:55:18.604+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **          Read and write access to data and configuration is unrestricted, 
2016-07-19T02:55:18.604+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **          and the server listens on all available network interfaces.
2016-07-19T02:55:18.604+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: You are running this process as the root user, which is not recommended.
2016-07-19T02:55:18.604+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] 
2016-07-19T02:55:18.604+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] 
2016-07-19T02:55:18.604+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: soft rlimits too low. Number of files is 256, should be at least 1000
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Run the project

> python start.py

Postman

For manual testing install Postman:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop

Import folder postman

For API documentation see View Docs under the collection MediaProTasks.

Notes

• Fields related to dates should be timestamps (this is, milliseconds since epoch)
• GET /api/tasks has pagination (ex. ?page=1&rows=5)