A basic exploration of the Eventbrite API built using Django. Users are presented with categories, as given by Eventbrite's API, and can choose up to 3. They are then presented with events from that category.
It is designed to be a very basic implementation with little to no styling done.
- Clone the repository to your machine
- Navigate to this folder
- Install virtualenv using
pip install virtualenv(if it's not already installed) - Create a virtualenv in your folder using
virtualenv env - Add
export EVENTBRITE_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEYtoenv/bin/activate - Run
source env/bin/activate - Install the dependencies using
env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt - Start Django using
env/bin/python manage.py runserver - Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000
- You're done!
Unit tests have been written with 96% code coverage. These mock the eventbrite API responses and are designed to be as isolated as possible.
- Use
env/bin/python manage.py test events.tests - To see test coverage run
coverage run --source='.' manage.py test eventsthencoverage report
The data.py file interacts directly with the Eventbrite API. This was designed to abstract the Eventbrite API from the views.
views.py contains basic logic about which templates are displayed.
The Eventbrite API is paginated, which was relatively hard to abstract.
Eventbrite's terms and conditions state that data cannot be stored. The option of using models to temporarily store data was explored, however this was generally just overkill and not necessary. Also, as the events returned by the API are paginated, it became quite tricky to implement pagination of results along with models. If you create 50 'Event' models with the first API call, and rely on database data only, then you can't have a paginate feature, as there may be disparity between the database and the API.