Pokemon

API client that consumes pokemon data from pokeapi (pokemon API), caches it with Redis (using redis-py), and measures the response time.

Technology

• Flask
• Redis

Endpoints

Method	URI	Action
GET	/api/pokemons	Retrieve all pokemon1
GET	/api/pokemons/{id}	Retrieve pokemon

1. Optional query parameters: limit, offset

Sample Usage

http get http://localhost:5000/api/pokemons

{
    "count": 949, 
    "results": [
        {
            "name": "bulbasaur", 
            "url": "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/1/"
        }, 
        {
            "name": "ivysaur", 
            "url": "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/2/"
        }, 
        {
            "name": "venusaur", 
            "url": "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/3/"
        }, 
....

logged to console after first request:
retrieved pokemons from remote api in 0.62505s ms

logged to console after second request:
retrieved pokemons from cache in 0.00073s ms

Run

With docker:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up
Go to http://localhost:5000 and visit one of the above endpoints

Alternatively, open config.py and point the Redis URI to your server, set the FLASK_APP env variable to pokemon.py, and pip install the dependencies (e.g. pip install -r requirements.txt). Be sure to install the python dependencies using requirements.txt located in ./src/, not ./src/requirements/ (I'm working on pruning the dev/prod/test dependencies).

cd into ./pokemon (if you are not already); then run:

flask run
Go to http://localhost:5000 and visit one of the above endpoints