File Uploading API (to S3 competible storage)

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Requirements

• go 1.14
• docker & docker-compose

Run Project

Due to localstack usage, awscli tool is needed for local development.

Install it on mac via brew install awscli

Before running local project, run: aws configure and set up AWS keys. Don't forget to add them to docker-compose.yml Then, set up bucket using folowing commands:

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4572 s3 mb s3://file-storage

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4572 s3api put-bucket-acl --bucket file-storage --acl public-read

Use make run to build and run docker containers with application itself and mongodb instance

API:

POST /api/upload

Used to upload image for publication

Input should be of type "multipart/form-data" with "file" as key to image:

Example Response (Status 200 OK):

{
    "status": "ok",
    "url": "http://localhost:4572/file-storage/XVlBzgbaiCMRAjWw"
}

Example Response (Status 400 Bad Request):

{
    "status": "error",
    "url": "failed to open image"
}