music_library

Description

A Python web application running Flask. Serves dummy music data for use in another project ipod_app Processes requests to serve data from a MySQL database

Hosted through Heroku here

Endpoints

• GET /: Pings the database for all albums

  Output:
    {
      "Albums": [
        {
            "artist": "Band Name",
            "cover": "Link to cover art",
            "id": "########-####-####-####-############",
            "name": "Album Name",
            "songs": [
                (########-####-####-####-############, Song_Name),
                ...
            ]
        },
        ...
      ]
    }
  

• GET /albums: Pings the database for all albums

  Output:
  {
    "Albums": [
      {
          "artist": "Band Name",
          "cover": "Link to cover art",
          "id": "########-####-####-####-############",
          "name": "Album Name",
          "songs": [
              (########-####-####-####-############, Song_Name),
              ...
          ]
      },
      ...
    ]
  }
  

• GET /artists: Pings the database for all artists

  Output:
  {
    "Artists": [
      {
        "albums": [
          "########-####-####-####-############",
          ...
        ],
        "id": "########-####-####-####-############",
        "name": "Artist Name",
        "songs": [
          "########-####-####-####-############",
          ...
        ]
      },
      ...
    ]
  }
  

• Get /songs: Pings the database for all songs

  Output:
  {
    "Songs": [
        {
        "album": "Album Name",
        "artist": "Artist Name",
        "id": "########-####-####-####-############",
        "name": "Song Name"
        },
        ...
    ]
  }
  

Bugs

Current build is unstable. Some request may not be able to connect to the database. On failure the response will look like: {"Artists":"artist"} Reloading the page should or retrying the request should fix this.