Glossary API

Open-Source Glossary API Service written in Rust, powered by https://actix.rs and https://diesel.rs.

Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	What it does
GET	/api/v1/glossary	Returns a dictionary of glossary with key is the first character of glossary terms.
GET	/api/v1/glossary-popular	Returns an array of most popular terms by likes.
GET	/api/v1/glossary/{id}	Return the glossary term and defintion.
POST	/api/v1/glossary	Create a new glossary with term and defintion.
PUT	/api/v1/glossary/{id}	Update a glossary.
DELETE	/api/v1/glossary/{id}	Delete a glossary.
GET	/api/v1/glossary/{id}/likes	Return an array of likes for a glossary.
POST	/api/v1/glossary/{id}/likes	Create a like for a glossary.
DELETE	/api/v1/glossary/{id}/likes	Delete a like from a glossary.

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust >= 1.26
• PostgreSQL >= 9.5

Set up the database

Install the diesel command-line tool including the postgres feature

cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features postgres

Check the contents of the .env file. If your database requires a password, update DATABASE_URL to be of the form:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://username:password@localhost/glossary

Tip: on MacOS, please prefer to use https://postgres.app

Then to create and set-up the database run:

diesel database setup

Migrate database schema:

diesel migration run

Run the application

To run the application execute:

cargo run

Then open in your browser: http://localhost:8080

Tests

To run the unittest, make sure to have Postgres installed in your machine. Please export TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost:5432 to your Postgres instance.

• On the MacOS, the easiest way is install https://postgres.app
• Otherwise, you can start Postgres by Docker Compose:

  docker-compose up -d
  

To run the unittest:

cargo test

Deployment

Using Docker image

Deploy using docker image from https://github.com/duyet/glossary/pkgs/container/glossary

docker run -it \
  -e DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:5432/glossary \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  ghcr.io/duyet/glossary:0.1.0

Using Helm chart

TBU

Building Docker image from source

Build and deploy by using docker:

docker build -t glossary .

docker run -it \
  -e DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:5432/glossary \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  glossary 

License

MIT