comments

comments

A comments service for static sites, currently work in progress. Would welcome any feature requests or issues. Current features:

• Easy to set up: a single binary file for each platform to return
• Supports JSONP and CORS
• Single database file for easy backup
• Dockerfile provided for easy deployment

API

- Add comment:

Adds the comment to the [page] bucket. POST parameters:

• msg the comments message
• poster the poster of the comment

- Delete comment:

Delete the comment in [page] bucket with the unix time [time]

- Get comments:

Returns an array comments for [page] in JSON format

Returns all comments for [page] in JSON format with the wrapper function name [callback]

[{
  "Poster":"Charlie",
  "Page":"blogPost1",
  "Msg":"Great blog post, can't wait to read more",
  "TimeUnix":"1456415718168122396"
 },
 {
  "Poster":"Sally",
  "Page":"blogPost1",
  "Msg":"Terrible blog post, I dissagree",
  "TimeUnix":"1456415718168154378"},   
}]

Using Dockerfile

A Dockerfile is provided for use with this project. To build and run comments from a docker container:

$ docker build -t [name_of_image] .
$ docker run -p 8000:[port_on_host] [name_of_image]

TODO

config

• set the CORS accepted origins header on startup.

tests

• get good (80%+) test coverage.

Releases

• output bins for Windows and Linux.