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Some tests building a simple API that determines whether an input string contains every lower-case character in the latin alphabet
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-# Bash version
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+# Bash (CGI) version
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-Sample output
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+### Check if POST'd string contains all lowercase letters of the latin alphabet
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+**URL:** '/contains_all_chars.sh'
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+**Method:** POST
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+**Data params:** Plain text
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+**Details:** Removes all non-interesting characters, sorts remaining characters, removes duplicates. Checks that the length of the result matches the length of the characters we wanted.
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+**Example response:**
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+```
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+{ "error": null, "result": True }
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+```
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+
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+**Example use:**
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```
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# Sample string with all alphabet characters
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[jceresini@slartibartfast ~]$ curl -X POST -d 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' http://test.ceresini.com/contains_all_chars.sh
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-
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{"error": null, "result": true}
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# Sample string that doesn't contain all alphabet characters
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[jceresini@slartibartfast ~]$ curl -X POST -d 'This string does not contain many letters of the alphabet' http://test.ceresini.com/contains_all_chars.sh
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-
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{"error": null, "result": false}
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# Hitting API endpoint with GET method
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[jceresini@slartibartfast ~]$ curl http://test.ceresini.com/contains_all_chars.sh
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-
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{"error": "Invalid http method", "result": null}
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```
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-# Python version
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+# Python version using Flask
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+
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+### Check if POST'd string contains all lowercase letters of the latin alphabet: Method A
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+**URL:** '/contains_all_chars_a'
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+**Method:** POST
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+**Data params:** Plain text
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+**Details:** Uses python's built-in [set].issubset function to see if the set of lowercase latin alphabet characters is a subset of the posted data
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-## Simplified call using sets
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+**Example response:**
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+```
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+{ "error": null, "result": True }
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+```
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+
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+**Example use:**
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```
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[jceresini@slartibartfast]$ curl -H "Content-type: text/plain" -d "@testfiles/doi.txt" http://test.ceresini.com:5000/contains_all_chars_a
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{"result": true, "error": null}
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@@ -35,8 +53,18 @@ Sample output
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{"result": false, "error": null}
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```
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+### Check if POST'd string contains all lowercase letters of the latin alphabet: Method B
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+**URL:** '/contains_all_chars_a'
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+**Method:** POST
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+**Data params:** Plain text
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+**Details:** Interates over each character of the posted data to see if it contains each lowercase character in the latin alphabet. Returns as soon as it has seen each character once.
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+
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+**Example response:**
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+```
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+{ "error": null, "result": True }
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+```
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-## Slower call iterating over the input string
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+**Example use:**
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```
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[jceresini@slartibartfast]$ curl -H "Content-type: text/plain" -d "@testfiles/doi.txt" http://test.ceresini.com:5000/contains_all_chars_b
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{"result": true, "error": null}
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