eldiario

eldiario

eldiario is a command line utility to write down notes, in form of journal. eldiario is based on client-server model. eldiario's backend is written in go which handles API requests. Rest of it is CLI front-end written in Python.

Usage

When you launch eldiario, you are put inside your choice of editor (eldiario reads $EDITOR), which when you save is updated in database. The database we use is stored on mongodb backing store.

You can pass date-time in format of YYMMDDHHMMSS to override the --new timestamp. Passing full datetime is not required but helps in sorting.

Development

With each diary entry, there goes some metadata which are:

• Datetime: This differentiates one entry from another.
• Author: To show only the entries written by current user.
• Body: The actual entry.
• UUID: Random generated UUID at front end

TODO

• Use subprocess to open blank editor/editor with entires, save/edit only when exit code is 0.

Test API

For testing following curl commands can be used.

Add a new entry:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"id": "bd7b69fa-9207-4996-91cd-b7eec3fce21b", body": "Starting days with eldiario", "datetime": "20190729224822", "author": "sntshk"}' http://localhost:8080/entry

Get all entries:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8080/entry

Get a specific entry:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8080/entry/bd7b69fa-9207-4996-91cd-b7eec3fce21b

Update entry:

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"id": "bd7b69fa-9207-4996-91cd-b7eec3fce21b", body": "eldiario is cool!", "datetime": "20190729224822", "author": "sntshk"}' http://localhost:8080/entry/bd7b69fa-9207-4996-91cd-b7eec3fce21b

Delete a entry:

curl -X DELETE -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8080/entry/bd7b69fa-9207-4996-91cd-b7eec3fce21b