Codebase backend applicants

In order to judge your developer skills we would like you to do the following task. The task should not exceed 3 hours of working time. After that time simply stop working on the task.

Finished or unfinished we would like to see your result and a couple of words of feedback from your end in order to get a better understanding of your thought process. Explain how you went about your implementation and how you would have approached the open tasks in case you could not finish the test in time.

Send your feedback by creating a pull-request from your repository to the original one: https://github.com/gimmenetwork/application-backend-artists

We are excited to see what you folks will be handing in!

Additional instructions

Pay extra attention to the unique token requirement for artists and albums. Ensure that the token generation would always result in a unique token. Think big!

Also, don't worry in case you will not finish in time. Make sure we can follow your thought process!

Requirements

• PHP 7.1.3+
• MySQL
• Git skills
• Github account
• Composer skills
• Symfony 4 skills
  • Doctrine

Installation

• Fork this repository
• Clone your forked repository so that you can work on it
• Install the composer packages

Now you should be able to run bin/console server:run to start up your development server.

Your task

It is up to you on how you want to structure your app. Fulfill the following requirements:

1. Build a database with doctrine based on the following dataset:
   • https://gist.github.com/fightbulc/9b8df4e22c2da963cf8ccf96422437fe
   • Import the dataset by using fixtures
     • Artists and albums should get an additional property token
       • ensure that token will be unique
       • length of 6 characters
       • use App\Utils\TokenGenerator to generate a token
       • should look something like this 3KF6YK
     • Songs
       • transform the length to seconds
2. Make the data available via the following REST endpoints:
   • GET /artists
     • show all artists with token and name
     • show related albums with token, title, cover
   • GET /artists/[token]
     • same as for GET /artists but only for the requested artist
   • GET /albums/[token]
     • show album data token, title, description, and cover
     • show related artist with token and name
     • show related songs with title and length (in minutes)
   • Response should be in JSON
   • Make sure to handle empty results with the correct response

Something not clear, do you need more information to do the test? Have a look at existing issues or create a new one in case you didn't see your question yet. Don't be afraid to ask!