keetron / visit-counter

a microservice for counting unique visitors

Visitor counter

This microservice allows for a POST call to be made to the /visit endpoint to add to the url visit counter, counting each visitor only once.

To start the service, use go run main.go

To POST a visit, use

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:8080/visit' \
  -H 'accept: */*' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "id": "d0e36d0e-3797-47f0-a740-433a78d23902",
  "url": "https://catropy.com"
}'

then fetch the counter with

curl -X 'GET' 'http://localhost:8080/visit?u=https://catropy.com'

Todos

• Use mutex
• write integration tests
• write unit tests
• discover code is set up wrong for unit testing, refactor code to make it more testable
• reconsider life choices
• tackle race condition
• add logging