Welcome!

Hi! this your determinant test for the position of Django backend developer at PayBox360. If you have any issues, you can read this docs or also contact Lolu for further clarification.

Overview

For this exercise you will be cover some basic concepts of web development and production ready deployment and you will hence be tested in the following basic concepts.

• Django and Django query-sets
• PostgreSQL Setup and connection to Django
• Cloud deployment
• PEP guidelines, conformity and quality of code
• General understanding of the python programming language.

Test Rundown

You will be required to fork this repository into your personal account and then carry out few operations of extending functionality of the application and then make a pull request with your branch name to the main branch as you progress.

Test Guide

After completing stage the process in in the rundown, please create branch for your self, please make sure to name the the branch with the following convention <yourname>/update, and also all commits to your branch should carry a message in the following format <ACTIVITY>[Activity details].

• A sample branch name would be paul/update, and.,
• A sample commit message would be FIX[ADDED CORS CONTROL]

Task Description

You are required to extend a skeleton application and build it into an inventory management system to such that it can provide the abilities below:

Project: Simple E-commerce API

Requirements:

1. User Management:

   • Implement user registration and login with JWT authentication.

2. Product Management:

   • Create models for Product and Category.
   • Implement CRUD operations for products (create, read, update, delete).

3. Order Management:

   • Create an Order model.
   • Allow users to place orders with multiple products.
   • Implement a basic order history endpoint for users.

Detailed Instructions:

1. Setup:

   • Create a new Django project.
   • Configure the project with Django REST Framework.
   • Make sure to use PostgreSQL

2. User Authentication:

   • Use Django's built-in User model.
   • Implement registration and login endpoints using JWT for authentication.

3. Product and Category Models:

   • Create models with appropriate fields (e.g., name, description, price for Product; name for Category).
   • Establish relationships (e.g., a product belongs to a category).
   • Implement endpoints for managing products (list, detail, create, update, delete).

4. Order Model:

   • Create an Order model with fields like user (ForeignKey), product (ManyToManyField), quantity, and date.
   • Implement an endpoint for placing orders.
   • Create an endpoint to retrieve the order history for the authenticated user.

5. Testing:

   • Write unit tests for each endpoint.

Evaluation Criteria:

• Correctness: The implementation should meet the requirements.
• Code Quality: Clean, readable, and maintainable code.
• Use of Django Best Practices: Proper use of Django features and conventions.
• Testing: Quality and coverage of unit tests.

Bonus:

• Implement search functionality for products.
• Add pagination to product listing.

Resources for task

Finally You will be provided with a virtual machine IP address hosted on Digital Ocean please host your project appropriately using NGINX, GUNICORN and POSTGRESQL (as database). A password for the droplet will be provided.

• Please add your postman link to the above created endpoints for review.
• Also note that you can ignore the Docker and CI/CD instantiations on the application.

Good luck, as we look forward to working with you at Liberty Assured in building amazing projects and relationships.