link-shortener

How to run

• Change config in config/config.yaml, if necessary

With golang

go build cmd/app/app.go

./app --storage=in-memory
# or
./app --storage=postgres
# default storage: in-memory

With Docker

docker build -t shorter . 

# ports should be similar with ones in config/config.yaml
docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 8081:8081 shorter in-memory
# or
docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 8081:8081 shorter postgres

How to use

Pay attention !Original URLs must contain schema!

GRPC

Base url(Host and Port) for grcp you can find in config/config.yaml

Endpoints you can find in api/shortener_v1/shortener.proto

HTTP

Base url(Host and Port) for HTTP you can find in config/config.yaml

Endpoints:

• GET - redirect to original page

/{identifier}

• POST - create short url

/?url="http://example.com"

Shorting algorithm

Service just generate random string of character until find unique. I'm not using hashing algs because there might be collisions.