This is not the best code in the world. This is just a tribute. The goal of this project is to try out Flaskand SQLAlchemy as tools to build rest APIs. The final system will be an authentication free service by utilizing signed JWTs to handle authorization.
QuickPoll aims to be a simple REST-API which exposes simple public poll functionality. No sign in is required to vote but authenticated tokens are required to create and update polls. The main features are as follows:
- CRUD public polls
- Vote in public polls
- Get poll results
To run this system yourself either have a look in the Dockerfile, for a hint of what the dependencies are, or just use the Dockerfile with podman or Docker. The scripts build-container.sh and run-container.sh expects podman to be used but they should be easily modifiable to use Docker instead.
- Make sure all dependencies are installed on your host OS
sh build-container.shsh run-container.sh- Inside terminal of container:
python create_db.pypython run.py
The system optionally supports configuration via JSON. The configuration file will be loaded from the execution directory of the system and should be named ./config.json. The file config.default.json contains an example of a working configuration file.