Mulungu

Mulungu is a service for creating and managing organizational charts, built in Go.

Features

• Easy API to manage charts and employees
• Low memory consumption due to the usage of memory pointers
• Fast operations, even with many nodes
• Uses memory cache by default

Running the server

To run the server:

$ docker-compose up

When everything is ready, your server will be accessible via localhost:8080

API Overview

resource	method	description
/chart/:chartId	GET	Retrieves a JSON structure with the whole chart hierarchy
/chart/:chartId	PUT	Inserts a new chart with id :chartId. By default, a root node is inserted.
/chart/:chartId	DELETE	Removes :chartId completely
/chart/:chartId/employee/:employeeId	PUT	Inserts an employee to :chartId, or updates its info (including leader)
/chart/:chartId/employee/:employeeId/subordinates	GET	Retrieves a JSON structure containing all subordinates of :employeeId

A Postman documentation and a Postman collection are provided with full examples of requests and responses.

Tests

This project uses Behavior Specifications tests, in BDDish style.

To run the tests:

$ docker-compose run mulungu go test -v ./...

What is the meaning of the name Mulungu?

Erythrina Mulungu is a native brazilian tree with a distinct red flowers, and an interesting branching pattern.