csvsimservice

Copyright (c) 2016 Johann Höchtl See LICENSE for license.

This is a web service which compares the similarity of CSV headers. It accepts

on route /compare via PUT:

type CSVPairCompareRequest struct {
	Baseline *string
	Compare  []string
}

a JSON-encoded body (application/json) with

• a string named Baseline which contains a CSV header;
• an array of strings Compare of CSV headers against which Baseline will be compared.

In case of success (HTTP status code 200), the web service produces response of type application/json

type CSVPairCompareResponse struct {
	CSVPairCompareRequest
	Response struct {
		CompareResult []int
	}
}

with

• CSVPairCompareRequest the input to the web serive copied to the response;
• CompareResult an array of integers as the result of measuring the similarity of CSV headers provided in CSVPairCompareRequest.

Additionally, these query parameters are accepted:

• comma: character which is used to separates CSV fields, defaults to ,
• comment: character to use for comments in the CSV file preceding the header; defaults to none.

This service will read from environment variable PORT the port on which it listens for incoming requests and defaults to port 5000.

This service can be either consumed directly after installing Golang and running

go get github.com/the42/setsim/cmd/csvsimservice

# start service
./csvsimservice
# start on another port but the default
PORT=5001 ./csvsimservice

or using Docker

docker pull the42/csvsimservice
docker run -it -p 5000:5000 --rm --name mycsvcomp csvsimservice

which will map exposed port 5000 and make it availavble to the host again as port 5000. Refer to the docker documentation if you want to use another port.

In case of bad input (missing parameters or wrong paramters) the service will respond with http status code 400.
In case of any other error (like malformed request or internal server error) the service will respond with http status code 500. In both cases the response will be of type text/plain.

An example how to use this service is provided in file in.json which will be used by the script test.cmd which uses the command line tool curl to issue a PUT-request to the service.