About sample test application

Contacts Application is a sample CRUD application. The application allows you to browse through a list of contacts, as well as add, update, and delete contacts.

In this cookbook, we will demonstrate, how you can validate this sample test application using vREST.

Useful links:

1. Download the source code from Github.
2. REST API specifications: Swagger File (TODO)
3. Setup / install contacts application.

REST Endpoints:

The application has the following REST API endpoints:

Versions:

The application has two versions.

• Version 1.0.0: In this version, the contact model has the following schema with some validations. 

  {
      name: {type: String, required: true, maxLength: 35},
      email: {type: String},
      designation: {type: String, maxLength: 35},
      organization: {type: String, maxLength: 35},
      country: {type: String, maxLength: 35},
      aboutMe: {type: String},
      linkedInId: {type: String},
      githubId: {type: String},
      facebookId: {type: String},
      twitterId: {type: String}
  }

  The version 1.0.0 of the Contacts Application can be accessed at the following URL:

  http://example.vrest.io/contacts/v1/test
   

• Version 2.0.0: In this version, we added the following functional additions in the contact model of the application:

  • added a email validator for email field
  • aboutMe field can now be maximum 500 characters long only

  {
      name: {type: String, required: true, maxLength: 35},
      email: {type: String, validator: emailValidator},
      designation: {type: String, maxLength: 35},
      organization: {type: String, maxLength: 35},
      country: {type: String, maxLength: 35},
      aboutMe: {type: String, maxLength: 500},
      linkedInId: {type: String},
      githubId: {type: String},
      facebookId: {type: String},
      twitterId: {type: String}
  }

  The version 2.0.0 of the Contacts Application can be accessed at the following URL:
  http://example.vrest.io/contacts/v2/test