vanhackathon-mastermind

API to mastermind game

MasterMind

The API was written in Django and using the package “Django-Rest-Framework” you can set the environment by creating a new virtualenv and running:

Installation

Create a virtualenv and do:

$ pip install Django
$ pip install djangorestframework

or simple run

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

run by executing

$ python manage.py runserver [host]:[port]

the default host and port = localhost:8000

API URLs

POST game/{game_id}

Expect a json with the guess from the user {"solution":"12345"}. Retrieves data:

• game (the game id)
• solution (the guess)
• guess_number (1st, 2nd, ... guess on this game)
• exact (the amount of right colors and positions on the guess)
• close (the amount of right colors that are not in the right position)

GET game/{game_id}

• game (the game id)
• count_moves (moves done so far)
• max_moves (the limit of moves on this game)
• guess (a array with n guesses, this guesses display the same data as retrived in a post guess)
• state ( [new, win, playing, lose] - to let the front end know how to react )

POST /newgame

expect a json data to create and setup a new game:

• secret (the secret to be guessed)
• max_moves

Challenges I ran into

The time hehe, i ended up doing something extremely MVP

What I learned

Learned a lot new things about django rest framework. I had worked with it but the system only provided data to another service, so that was my first attempt to receive data from client and store it with this framework.

Built With

• django
• python