A code assessment challenge: Build an API that will support a movie catalog and rental service (similar to Redbox)

This project is best run from Visual Studio 2017, using SQL Express and IIS Express.

Instructions:

• Download code, open in Visual Studio
• From Package Manager, select the MovieRental.Entity project, and run Update-Database to run migrations and seed the first user.
• Run project
• Use cURL or any rest client to run methods

If redis cache server is available, the host can be added to Web.Config in the CacheHost key. If no server is available, leave CacheHost blank. The system will automatically skip caching if that is blank.

• CreateAccount curl -d '{"username":"next","password":"user"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "http://localhost:50137/account/"
• Login: curl -d "username=joe&password=user&grant_type=password" -X POST http://localhost:50137/token
  • Get the access token from this for all other commands
• GetAccount: Two options
  • Get own info: curl -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" "http://localhost:50137/account/"
  • Get Other user (admin only): curl -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" "http://localhost:50137/account/2/"
• UpdateAccount: Optional id as above: curl -d '{"username":"next", "password":"user", "userrole": "Admin"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" "http://localhost:50137/account/2/"
• DeleteAccount (deactivate): Optional id as above: curl -X DELETE -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" "http://localhost:50137/account/2/"
• RentalHistory: Optional id as above: curl -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" "http://localhost:50137/account/1/history/"

• CreateMovie: curl -d '{"title":"Serenity","releasedate":"2005-09-01"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X POST "http://localhost:50137/movie/"
• UpdateMovie: curl -d '{"title":"Serenity","releasedate":"2005-09-30"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X PUT "http://localhost:50137/movie/1/"
• GetMovie: curl "http://localhost:50137/movie/1/"
• SearchMovies: curl -d '{"SearchTerm":"ere","releasefrom":"2005-01-01", "releaseto": "2006-01-01"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "http://localhost:50137/movies/"

• CreateKiosk: curl -d '{"name":"Vons","Streetaddress1":"123 Main St","City":"Here","Country":"US","PostalCode":"91701"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X POST "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/"
• UpdateKiosk: curl -d '{"name":"Vons","Streetaddress1":"123 Main St","City":"Here","Country":"US","PostalCode":"91737"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X PUT "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/1/"
• GetKiosk: curl -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/1/"
• DeleteKiosk: curl -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X DELETE "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/1/"
• GetKiosksNear: curl -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" "http://localhost:50137/kiosks/?location.PostalCode=91737&distance=10000"
• AddMoviesToKiosk: curl -d '[{"MovieID":1,"stock":5}]' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X POST "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/1/addmovies"
• RemoveMoviesFromKiosk: curl -d '[{"MovieID":1,"stock":1}]' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X POST "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/1/removemovies"
• GetMoviesAtKiosk: curl -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/1/movies/"
• RentMovie: curl -d '' -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X POST "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/1/rent/1/"
• ReturnMovie: curl -d '' -H "authorization: Bearer {token}" -X POST "http://localhost:50137/kiosk/1/return/1/"

• Password encryption (location noted in AccountService.cs)
• Analysis for caching - determine what ideal cache TTLs are
• Enhanced movie details - descriptions, thumbnails, director(s), actors, etc
• Enhanced movie search, but with a better search engine, and using the above details
• Enhanced geolocation - current geolocation is based on zip code, but a simple change in Account.cs would allow for better geocoding
• Much, much more