API

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Get Users

GET https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/users

This endpoint allows you to get free cakes.

200 A list of usernames will be retrieved

{response: [username1, username2, ...]}

500

{ERROR: ERROR}

Post Users

POST https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/users

This method will create a user given the correct headers

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Name	string	Name that will be displayed for the user
Username	string	Username that will be used for sending and logging in
Password	string	Password for the account

200 It will return a JSON object with the reference to the mongo database

{response: ref}

500 There is an issue internally or you have sent the incorrect headers

{ERROR: ERROR}

Get User

GET https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/users/:id

Get a certain user given an id

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	string	the username of the account

Headers

Name	Type	Description
token	string	token for the user associated with the account

200 This returns the username and name of any given user

{response: [{username: result[0]["username"], name: result[0]["name"]}]}

500

{ERROR: ERROR}

Get posts

GET https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/posts

This will return the posts for the username given

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Username	string	Username for the account
Token	string	User token created during login

200 Returns an array of posts (can be very large amount because pictures are stored as text in database)

{result: [post1, post2, ..., postN]}

302 Given when the token provided is not the one created during the last login

{response: "incorrectSessionToken"}

Post post

POST https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/posts

Use this method to create a post

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Message	string	Message for the image
Token	string	User token
Username	string	User that this is being posted by

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
content	string	a base64 encoded image that gets put into the database

200 ref data from the mongo database

{ref}

302 given when the session token is incorrect

{error: "incorrectSessionToken"}

Put Send

PUT https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/send

Use this method to send the post that was just created

Headers

Name	Type	Description
id	string	Id of post being sent
newUser	string	Id of user being sent to
Token	string	user token
currentUser	string	username of the user that the post is being sent from

200 This means that the post has been sent successfully

{error: "SENT"}

302 the session token given is incorrect

{response: "incorrectSessionToken"}

Put Login

PUT https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/login

Use this method to login and create a session token

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Password	string	md5 hashed password of user logging in
Username	string	Username of user logging in

200 This will return the token to be used in most following requests

{token: sessionToken}

302 This will be returned when there is no user with the username given

{Error: "no use with this username"}

Put Logout

PUT https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/logout

Logs the user out by invalidating user token

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Username	string	Username of user being logged out
Token	string	User Token of user being logged out

200 Response saying that the user has been logged out

{response: "loggedOut"}

302 Thrown when the incorrect session token is given

{response: "incorrectSessionToken"}

get Post

GET https://ec2-18-217-231-79.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/posts/:id

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	string	ID of the post

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Username	string
Token	string

200 This will return a post object

{result: postData}

302 Returned when user token is invalid

{result: "incorrectSessionToken"}