This is a udacity project 3, item catalog. This project aims at practising the server-side coding in python with Flask library. The basic authentication with OAuth2 is also included in order to protect the data inside the server.

1. Python 2.7.1
   1. Flask
   2. SQLAlchemy
   3. BaseHTTPServer
2. SQLite

Step 1 - Install the required python libraries bash pip install flask sqlalchemy BaseHTTPServer

Step 2 - Set up the database Please create an admin account with password. The default acoount is postgres with password admin. Then, you should create the database called sample so that the database_setup.py can correctly point to your local database. If you want to customize the account and database, you will have to change the value of _sql_string inside database_setup.py. Step 2 - Database Set up The database file has already attached in the root directory called data.db. The database_setup.py will read it automatically.

Step 3 - Launch the server You can then launch the server by the following script. bash python webserver.py The server will be hosted in port 5000 by default.

The website provides the users with CRUD operations in the database after logging in. Please use the facebook account to login through the button in top right hand corner. After logging in to the system, you can enjoy the CRUD operations with the item catalog.

Please note that you can either create the catalogs or items in the website. You should create at least one catalogs first in order to organize the items well.

This API will server the users with the JSON object of the items with joining the catalog name. The URL accepts the query parameter raw. If raw is set to be 1, you will get the id of the catalog instead of the name of the catalog.

This API accepts the items id to show the details of arbitary item in the catalog with JSON format. You can get the id from catalog.json or the URL of viewing page for the target in the web interface.