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json-tree-service

JSON Tree REST service. Access JSON structure with HTTP path parameters as keys/indices to the JSON.

Refer to the Medium blog post, Emulate the Firebase Realtime Database API with Golang, Postgres, and Websockets, which walks through the process of creating this project.

Run Locally

# start services
$ make up

# rebuild images
$ make rebuild

# build images
$ make build

# stop containers and destroy them
$ make down

# stop containers
$ make stop

# remove images
$ make remove

# clean up; stop containers remove images and volumes
$ make clean

Make HTTP requests

# create tree for new project
$ curl -s -X POST -d '{"age": 25, "job": {"title": "clerk"}, "name": "bob", "friends": ["one", "two"]}' localhost:5001/api/mydb | jq "."
{}

# retrieve full tree
$ curl -s localhost:5001/api/mydb/ | jq "."
{
  "age": 25,
  "friends": [
    "one",
    "two"
  ],
  "job": {
    "title": "clerk"
  },
  "name": "bob"
}

# retrieve individual keys
$ curl -s localhost:5001/api/mydb/friends | jq "."
[
  "one",
  "two"
]

# or by index of array
$ curl -s localhost:5001/api/mydb/friends/1 | jq "."
"two"

$ curl -s localhost:5001/api/mydb/job/title | jq "."
"clerk"

Add key

$ curl -s -X POST -d '4' localhost:5001/api/mydb/job/years | jq "."
{}
$ curl -s localhost:5001/api/mydb/ | jq "."
{
  "age": 25,
  "friends": [
    "one",
    "two"
  ],
  "job": {
    "title": "clerk",
    "years": 4
  },
  "name": "bob"
}

Update key

$ curl -s -X PUT -d '{"title": "Engineer", "years": 1}' localhost:5001/api/mydb/job | jq "."
{}
$ curl -s localhost:5001/api/mydb/ | jq "."
{
  "age": 25,
  "friends": [
    "one",
    "two"
  ],
  "job": {
    "title": "Engineer",
    "years": 1
  },
  "name": "bob"
}

Delete key

$ curl -s -X DELETE localhost:5001/api/mydb/job | jq "."
{}
$ curl -s localhost:5001/api/mydb/ | jq "."
{
  "age": 25,
  "friends": [
    "one",
    "two"
  ],
  "name": "bob"
}

Websocket UI updates prototype

http://jsfiddle.net/anothernick/hcax2gvk/

A JSFiddle prototype which initially displays the JSON Object returned from an HTTP request. The Object is then updated and re-rendered when updates are made to the object (listens on a websocket).

Credit

Websocket work basically taken from gorilla/websocket/chat example
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