Testable API and Microservice Projects: File Metadata

[QuincyLarson]

We are updating the API and Microservice projects to be testable. Campers will start with a boilerplate specific to each project.

Here some proposed user stories - feel free to expand upon them by replying to this comment, and if you see any that look unnecessary, please say so: (to be added)

Progress:

• [x] Edit the user stories if necessary to ensure they are testable
• [x] Create the list of tests
• [x] Build a prototype where all of those tests pass (to verify it can be done)
• [ ] Ask campers to build their own versions based off of our instructions and our boilerplate
• [ ] Add tests to Free Code Camp's seed files

[Em-Ant]

Links:

• boilerplate: roasted-season
• prototype: purple-paladin

Improvements

• endpoint: POST /api/fileanalyse - (encoding: multipart, input field name attribute: upfile)
• add other file infos in the response - e.g. ..., type : req.file.mimetype, ...,

[Em-Ant]

@QuincyLarson as far as I know simulating a file upload with jQuery/ajax requires the use of Blob, and formData from the new WebAPI. These technologies are unsupported by IE9. Is that OK ? Otherwise I don't know how to test the file uploading from the client without having the user to upload a file manually.

@Greenheart @systimotic any further information/ideas about this problem ? Check the latest tests on narrow-plane to see how it works

[Em-Ant]

@QuincyLarson If you think it is OK, we are ready for QA.

• boilerplate: roasted-season
• prototype: purple-paladin

tesing with narrow-plane option MS5 file metadata

[QuincyLarson]

Forum thread for QA'ing this is live here: https://forum.freecodecamp.com/t/file-metadata-project-with-testable-user-stories-guinea-pigs-needed/60766

[QuincyLarson]

Thanks for your help everyone! This is being QA'd and discussed.

I'm closing this issue. If anyone wants to discuss these further, please reopen it.