Blog API

This is a RESTful API for managing blog posts, built with Rust and Actix-Web. It supports creating, reading, updating, and deleting blog posts.

Features

• Create a new blog post
• Retrieve a blog post by ID
• Update an existing blog post
• Delete a blog post by ID

Technologies Used

• Rust
• Actix-Web
• Serde
• UUID
• Chrono

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust (https://www.rust-lang.org/)
• Cargo (included with Rust)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   sh
   git clone https://github.com/your-username/blog_api.git
   cd blog_api
   

2. Build and run the application:

   cargo run
   

The server will start on 127.0.0.1:8080.

API Endpoints

• Create a post:

  curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"title": "First Post", "content": "This is the content of the first post"}' http://127.0.0.1:8080/posts
  

Example Response:

{
  "id": "d3b07384-d9b1-11eb-b8bc-0242ac130003",
  "title": "First Post",
  "content": "This is the content of the first post",
  "timestamp": 1625075113
}

• Get a post by ID:

curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/posts/{id}

Replace {id} with the actual UUID of the post.

Example response:

{
  "id": "d3b07384-d9b1-11eb-b8bc-0242ac130003",
  "title": "First Post",
  "content": "This is the content of the first post",
  "timestamp": 1625075113
}

• Update a post by ID:

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"title": "Updated Title", "content": "Updated content"}' http://127.0.0.1:8080/posts/{id}

Replace {id} with the actual UUID of the post.

Example response:

{
  "id": "d3b07384-d9b1-11eb-b8bc-0242ac130003",
  "title": "Updated Title",
  "content": "Updated content",
  "timestamp": 1625075113
}

• Delete a post by ID:

curl -X DELETE http://127.0.0.1:8080/posts/{id}

Replace {id} with the actual UUID of the post.

Example response:

"Post d3b07384-d9b1-11eb-b8bc-0242ac130003 deleted"