python_challenge

Simple browser-based chat application using Python

Description

This project is designed to test your knowledge of back-end web technologies, specifically in Python and assess your ability to create back-end products with attention to details, standards, and reusability.

Assignment

The goal of this exercise is to create a simple browser-based chat application using Python. This application should allow several users to talk in a chatroom and also to get stock quotes from an API using a specific command.

Mandatory Features

• Allow registered users to log in and talk with other users in a chatroom.
• Allow users to post messages as commands into the chatroom with the following format /stock=stock_code
• Create a decoupled bot that will call an API using the stock_code as a parameter (https://stooq.com/q/l/?s=aapl.us&f=sd2t2ohlcv&h&e=csv, here aapl.us is the stock_code)
• The bot should parse the received CSV file and then it should send a message back into the chatroom using a message broker like RabbitMQ. The message will be a stock quote using the following format: “APPL.US quote is $93.42 per share”. The post owner will be the bot.
• Have the chat messages ordered by their timestamps and show only the last 50 messages.
• Unit test the functionality you prefer.

Bonus (Optional)

• Have more than one chatroom.
• Handle messages that are not understood or any exceptions raised within the bot.

How-To Use

git clone https://github.com/carlosost/python_challenge.git
cd python_challenge
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 app.py

• Open a browser and type http://127.0.0.1:5000/
• Click on "#" or "Login" and use one of the pre registered users bellow:
  • email: user1@email.com pass: user1
  • email: user2@email.com pass: user2