#Ticketing System Backend

##Intro A simple demonstration of a REST API in Python with Feature tests.

Please Note: This is just a simple demonstration of a REST API rather than an issue tracking system.

#Sample Requests and Responses

###Create ticket request

{
    "ticket_type": "Bug",
    "message": "The links are broken."
}

###Create ticket response

{
    "id": 123456,
    "ticket_type": "Bug",
    "status": "opened"
}

###Query ticket status request

{
    "id": 123456
}

###Query ticket status response

{
    "id": 123456
    "ticket_type": "Bug",
    "status": "closed"
}

#Dependencies

• behave For testing features
• requests For testing HTTP API calls
• oktest For testing units
• falcon REST framework
• cython For accelerating falcon (optional)
• sqlite3 For presistance

#Dev Installation It is recommended to use a Python virtual environment like pyenv or the default virtualenv.

$ python setup.py develop

Please note the feature tests and the application run on a separate process. In other even if the backend is completely written in a new language the feature files can still be reused so long as the API spits out the same JSON.

##Creating database Please make sure sqlite3 is installed.

For example, if you are on Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install sqlite3 will do the job.

Then create the database $ cat ticket.sql | sqlite3 ticket.db