noulmon / spark_locations

SPARK LOCATIONS

The Spark Locations is a Django Application that let users follow one another. Any user can then view the places that a particular user(only whom he/she is following) had checked-in.

Models

• Place:
  • Store the global data of places.
  • The table will be prepopulated with places around the globe(so that the users can get the list of places based on their location).
  • Places are stored as the 'PolygonField' using the Django GIS.
• User:
  • User table contains the basic user data such as the username, first_name, last_name, email.
• UserCheckedInPlace:
  • This table contains the details of places that the user had checked-in.
  • 'places' field represents the foreign key of place table.
• UserFollowing:
  • This table contains the details user following and followers

Views(Pseudo-codes/methods)

• 'current_place':
  • This method return places near a users current location.
  • The user will be providing the current location(point data- latitude and longitude).
  • The places will be fetched based the user's current location and the it will be returned.
• 'user_checkin':
  • This method creates the user check-in data.
  • User will be selecting a place_id from the list provided based on the location.
• 'follow_user':
  • This method creates user following data if the requested user is not following a particular user.
• 'unfollow_user':
  • This method removes user following data if it exists for the requested user and a particular user.
• 'user_following_list':
  • This method retrieves the list of all users whom the requested user is following.
• 'user_checked_in_places':
  • Retrieves the list of places a particular user had checked-in.
  • The requested user will provide a user_id as input and the list of all places the user(based on user_id) had checked-in will be retrieved if only the requested user is following that particular uer.

Thank you.