Weather API

Create a weather API in Python.

External API: openweathermap

Consume external API and create a human readable response for city/country pair using a get request.

Note: Globant test in linux environment.

install redis

sudo apt install redis-server

Configurations used from file data/redis.conf, no more steps need.

Use

Set python environment

use the shells/create_environ.sh script for create the python environment.

bash shells/create_environ.sh

You can see inside the script for the step by step commands.

Play app

Use the shells/run_app.sh script for setting the environment variables, start redis server and play the application. redis-server configuration file is data/redis.conf. the cached data will be stored at data/cache.rdb. Cached data will be deleted after CACHE_TIME_SECONDS (environment variable) seconds. All environment variables are exported using shell scripts, you can take a look by opening the .sh file at shells/*.sh

bash shells/run_app.sh

Use a normal web browser to check the application:

app url: http://127.0.0.1:8000/weather

arguments:

• city: city as an aphabetical string only
• country: Country as an alphabetical string in format iso2 only.

example:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/weather?city=guayaquil&country=ec

Play test

For make all the tests first initiate the app in one terminal and the test in other terminal:

# terminal 1
bash shells/run_app.sh

# terminal 2
bash shells/test.sh

Notes

Some ranges for human readable

Some information about ranges were taken from the following links. (ranges are shown in data/ranges.json)

Wind speed ranges

cloudiness ranges