This repo contains the code for Cormac Conahan's submission for BoomTown's interview assignment.
This program is a console application that was built with .NET SDK version 6.0.101 on a Windows 10 Operating System and includes a dependency on Newtonsoft.Json version 9.0.1
- Clone this repo to your desired directory
- In a console or terminal, navigate to the directory where this repo is located on your machine
- Enter
dotnet run - The output should display to the console
Using the GitHub API and an object-oriented language of choice (preferably C#), pull top-level details for the BoomTownROI organization at: https://api.github.com/orgs/boomtownroi
From the top-level organization details result object, complete the following:
- Output Data:
- Follow all urls containing "api.github.com/orgs/BoomTownROI" in the path, and for responses with a 200 status code, retrieve and display all 'id' keys/values in the response objects. For all non-200 status codes, give some indication of the failed request. HINT: Devise a way for the end user to make sense of the id values, related to the original resource route used to retrieve the data.
- Perform Verifications:
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On the top-level BoomTownROI organization details object, verify that the 'updated_at' value is later than the 'created_at' date.
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On the top-level details object, compare the 'public_repos' count against the repositories array returned from following the 'repos_url', verifying that the counts match. HINT: The public repositories resource only returns a default limit of 30 repo objects per request.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this project. I had never previously worked with .NET and my knowledge of C# was limited to what I had learned from scripting game objects in Unity. As such, following through with the decision to code the project entirely in C# .NET became a rigorous but exciting challenge. Looking back, there are certainly things I would change to make the code cleaner and more modular to follow SOLID coding principles more closely. I would also definitely do more research on the idiomatic nuances of C# and .NET such as finding an industry or community standard for handling json objects retrieved from an API, but I am quite happy with the end product and am extremely grateful for this learning opportunity.