2. Backend Practical.md

You'll have an hour to work on your own feel free to ask questions or look things up.

The goal is to provide an API to manage tasks.

Requirements

The api should be able to return the following

• overdue tasks
• completed tasks
• incomplete tasks
• change the dueDate of tasks
• return tasks grouped by assignee.

We will pretend that we have a database (stored as a local file CSV for simplicity) and that we want to provide a JSON / command line API that let's us do the above.

Bonus points:

• unit tests
• this is an actual web API
• extensions

API Documentation

Please provide an API, queryable on localhost, testcases in your program is also fine, or via commandline (if you want to do this as a script) that supports the following:

GET /tasks?status="overdue"

returns {
    taskAId: {
        name
        assignee
        createdAt
        dueDate
        completed
    },
    taskBId: {
        ...
    }, 
    taskCId: {
        ...
    }
    # etc.
}

GET /tasks?completed={true/false} returns all tasks completed or not completed

POST /tasks/:id?<field>=<new_value> updates the specified task field with the new value

GET /employees/:id/tasks returns all tasks assigned to the employee with overdue property

returns {
    taskAId: {
        ...
        overdue
    }
    ...
}

POST /tasks?id=<int>,dueDate="+1d" increments the dueDate

Tools

You can run this as a webserver if that is easy for you, or as a command line app. Keep this as simple as possible.

task_data.csv